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UHDDS

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Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
For short term general hospitals (inpatient hospital)

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MDS

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Minimum Data Set
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) powerful tool for implementing standardized assessment and for facilitating care management in nursing homes (NHs) and non-critical access hospital swing-beds (SBs)

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OASIS

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Outcome @ assessment information Set
Home Health
Used for reimbursement for home health services.

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Deeds

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Data elements for emergency department systems

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ONC

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Office of the National Coordinator

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OSHA

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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CMS

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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CDC

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Center for Disease Control and Prevention

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ARRA

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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HITECH

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Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act

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LOINC

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Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Code is a database and universal standard for identifying medical laboratory observations.The purpose is to assist in the electronic exchange and gathering of clinical results (such as laboratory tests, clinical observations, outcomes management and research)

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EDMS

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Electronic document system
Act as a central repository for all electronic and paper data

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PACS

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Picture archiving & communications syste

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CPOE

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Computerized Provider Order Entry

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IRB

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Institutional Review Board (IRB) is charged with protecting the rights and welfare of people involved in research. The IRB reviews plans for research involving human subjects.

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ORYX

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A proprietary methodology that enables standardized outcome and performance measurement for health care organizations; established by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

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VPN

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Virtual Private Networking
Provides a secure method of accessing restricted resources.

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UACDS

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Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set
Ambulatory care facilities (physician offices, medical clinics, same-day surgery centers, outpatient hospital clinics and diagnostic departments, emergency treatment centers, and hospital emergency departments)

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RBRVS

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Resource-based relative value scale is a schema used to determine how much money medical providers should be paid.

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ASC

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Ambulatory surgery centers
Also known as outpatient surgery centers or same day surgery centers

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DSNB

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Discharged not final billed

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APC

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Ambulatory Payment Classifications
The United States government's method of paying for facility outpatient services for the Medicare.

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RADT

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Registration, admission, discharge, transfer system

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GEMS

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General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS)
Provides a temporary mechanism to link ICD-9 to ICD-10 and vice versa

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NHIN

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Nationwide Health Information Network
Set of standards, services, and policies that enable the secure exchange of health information over the Internet

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MS-DRG

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Medicare Severity Diagnosis Relative Value System Enable CMS to provide greater reimbursement to hospitals serving more severely ill patients