CMDP flashcards
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- Data steward
- A role responsible for the operational management of a data domain, including definitions, quality monitoring, and issue remediation under governance policies.
- Business glossary
- A governed repository of approved business terms and definitions that ensures consistent meaning across reports, systems, and stakeholders.
- Critical data element
- A field or attribute whose quality materially affects patient safety, regulatory reporting, or key decisions, and which receives prioritized governance controls.
- RACI matrix
- A responsibility assignment chart that documents who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed for each governance activity.
- SNOMED CT
- A comprehensive, concept-based clinical terminology with polyhierarchical relationships, used for problem lists and clinical documentation exchange.
- LOINC
- A standard code system for laboratory tests and clinical observations, with each term built from component, property, timing, system, scale, and method.
- RxNorm
- A normalized naming and identifier system for clinical drugs, used to support medication interoperability and decision support.
- FHIR
- A standards framework using RESTful resources such as Patient and Observation, exchanged as JSON or XML, for modern healthcare interoperability.
- DICOM
- A standard for medical imaging that defines image formats and metadata, including patient, study, series, and instance identifiers.
- ICD-10-CM
- A diagnosis coding system used in the United States with more than 70,000 codes, used for billing, reporting, and morbidity classification.
- Completeness rate
- A data-quality metric calculated as populated required fields divided by total required fields, expressed as a percentage by field or record.
- Referential integrity
- A database constraint ensuring every foreign key value matches an existing primary key in the referenced table, preventing orphaned records.
- Data profiling
- The analysis of a dataset to measure null rates, distinct counts, value distributions, and format conformance before quality rules are designed.
- Probabilistic matching
- A record-linkage method that assigns match weights to fields such as name, date of birth, and sex to identify likely duplicate records.
- Reconciliation
- A control that compares source and target record counts or totals to detect data loss, duplication, or transformation errors during data movement.
- Safe Harbor de-identification
- A HIPAA method that removes all 18 specified identifiers, such as names, precise dates, and geographic subdivisions smaller than a state.
- Expert Determination
- A HIPAA de-identification method in which a qualified statistician determines that the risk of re-identification is very small.
- Minimum necessary standard
- A HIPAA Privacy Rule requirement to limit PHI use or disclosure to the amount reasonably needed to accomplish the intended purpose.
- Breach notification deadline
- A HIPAA requirement to notify affected individuals without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovery of a breach.
- Least privilege
- A security principle granting users only the access rights required for their job function, reducing exposure of protected health information.
- ALCOA+
- Data integrity principles requiring records to be attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, accurate, plus complete, consistent, enduring, and available.
- Source data verification
- A clinical trial activity comparing database entries against original source documents to confirm accuracy and completeness.
- Audit trail
- An immutable record capturing who changed data, when, and why, supporting traceability and regulatory compliance for clinical records.
- Query management
- The process of tracking data discrepancies from detection through resolution, with metrics such as query rate and time to closure.
- Sensitivity
- The proportion of true positives among all actual positives, calculated as true positives divided by true positives plus false negatives.
- Positive predictive value
- The proportion of true positives among all positive test results, calculated as true positives divided by true positives plus false positives.
- Control chart
- A time-series chart with control limits, typically at plus or minus three sigma, used to separate common-cause from special-cause variation.
- Standardized rate
- An adjusted rate, using direct or indirect methods, that removes the effect of confounders such as age and sex when comparing populations.
- HL7 v2 ADT message
- A pipe-delimited message type used to exchange patient admission, discharge, and transfer events between healthcare systems.
- Master patient index
- A system that links patient identities across multiple systems to reduce duplicate records and support accurate data exchange.
- Medallion architecture
- A data-lakehouse design organizing data into bronze (raw), silver (cleansed), and gold (curated) layers for progressive refinement.
- Star schema
- A dimensional model with central fact tables and surrounding dimension tables, optimized for analytic query performance.