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19 Cards in this Set
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What are the three components of the healthcare IT environment?
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1. Software Applications
2. Hardware 3. Network Connectivity |
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What are the types of software applications in healthcare?
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1. Clinical
2. Administrative 3. Financial 4. E-Health 5. E-Business |
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What are examples of Clinical software applications?
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EHR, PACS (Picture Archiving and Capture System), Departmental (Lab, Rad, Pharm) systems, ED, OR, Onc, Labor and Delivery systems.
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What are examples of Administrative software applications?
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Scheduling, Managing and Tracking software, Business Intelligence tools, HR systems, Document Management systems, Email system
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What are examples of Financial software applications?
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Contract Management, Patient Accounting, Practice Management, Claims Adjudication, Budgeting systems.
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What are examples of E-Health/E-Business software applications?
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Informational systems (like webmd), Interactive portals (like online scheduling of appointments, view test results, e-visits) and PHR (Personal Health Record).
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What is the purpose of clinical applications?
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To aid directly in the delivery of healthcare to patients.
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What is the purpose of administrative applications?
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Apps used by healthcare facility staff to manage the resources needed to deliver care and operate the facility. E.g. Scheduling, Asset management apps.
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What is the purpose of financial applications?
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To capture charges, BILLING, collecting and posting of payments.
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What is the purpose of E-Health applications?
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Apps that deliver general health info just like webmd, PHRs...etc.
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What is the purpose of E-Business applications and Health Information Exchanges?
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Applications that securely exchange administrative, financial and clinical info between providers, payors and other healthcare orgs.
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What is an example of Application Integration?
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MPI - Master Patient Index, which generates a unique MRN for each pt and is used by all systems to uniquely identify the pt.
Interface engines/applications are also an example... HL7, X12 data streams. Integrating medical devices with clinical software. |
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What is an IDN?
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Integrated Delivery Network where thousands of devices on the same network across different systems, all sharing information over a high-speed network with a fully redundant "hot site" recovery functionality.
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What are examples of Point-of-Care devices?
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Mobile computing devices such as tablets, handheld devices, workstation-on-wheels...etc
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What is the general makeup of a WAN?
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It is a Wide Area Network, which contain many LANs, and WLANs that are geographically disparate yet are connected to each other.
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What are ASPs?
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Application Service Providers, provide applications remotely hosted for their clients, so that clients don't have to provide an infrastructure to host the applications themselves. This is remote hosting.
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What is the advantage of using ASPs or doing Remote Hosting?
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It provides a cheaper alternative to having the same application without having to support an internal infrastructure to host the apps. The healthcare org gets a lower cost of expenditure, due to the economies of scale model that is behind remote hosting.
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What is the difference between a hot site and a cold site?
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Hot-Site replicates an organization's hardware and software for when a switch-over needs to take place, it can do so immediately.
A Cold-Site is one that takes a few hours to get started after a production environment goes down. |
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What is the difference between EHR and EMR?
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EHR is a longitudinal record of the patient healthcare which includes electronic charting, labs, x-ray scans (imaging) and more.
EMR is an older term that originally referred to electronic charting ONLY by clinicians. |
