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- CAIH credential
- Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems; a foundational certification for early-career health IT professionals covering informatics, systems, data, and management domains.
- EHR vs EMR
- An EMR is a single organization's digital chart; an EHR is a broader, interoperable record shared across multiple care settings and providers.
- CPOE
- Computerized Provider Order Entry allows clinicians to enter orders electronically, reducing transcription errors and enabling safety checks like allergy and interaction alerts.
- HL7 FHIR
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources; a modern HL7 standard using RESTful APIs and JSON or XML resources to exchange clinical data between systems.
- DICOM
- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine; the standard for storing, transmitting, and viewing medical images such as CT, MRI, and X-rays.
- LOINC
- Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes; a standard vocabulary for identifying laboratory tests and clinical observations for interoperable exchange.
- SNOMED CT
- Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms; a comprehensive clinical terminology used for documenting findings, diagnoses, and procedures in EHRs.
- Promoting Interoperability
- A CMS program incentivizing eligible providers and hospitals to use certified EHR technology for e-prescribing, patient access, health information exchange, and public health reporting.
- SDLC phases
- System Development Life Cycle: planning, analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance; a structured framework guiding health IT system development and deployment.
- Clinical decision support
- Tools such as alerts, order sets, and reference information that give clinicians patient-specific knowledge at the point of care to improve decisions and outcomes.
- Five rights of CDS
- Right information, right person, right intervention format, right channel, and right time in workflow; a framework for designing effective clinical decision support.
- Alert fatigue
- Desensitization caused by excessive or low-specificity alerts, leading clinicians to override warnings and potentially miss important safety notifications.
- Order set
- A grouped set of standardized orders for a clinical condition or procedure that reduces variation and supports evidence-based practice within the EHR.
- Workflow analysis
- Observation and process mapping of clinical tasks before and after system implementation to identify bottlenecks, redundancies, and design requirements.
- eMAR
- Electronic Medication Administration Record; documents medication administration at the bedside, often paired with barcode scanning to verify the five rights.
- SBAR
- Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation; a structured communication tool used for clinical handoffs and escalation of patient concerns.
- Usability heuristics
- Design principles such as visibility of system status, error prevention, and minimizing memory load, used to evaluate health IT interfaces for safety and efficiency.
- Data governance
- The framework of policies, roles, and standards that defines data ownership, quality, access, and stewardship across an healthcare organization.
- Data quality dimensions
- Accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, validity, and uniqueness; criteria used to assess whether data is fit for clinical and analytic use.
- Analytics maturity
- A progression from descriptive (what happened) to diagnostic (why), predictive (what will happen), and prescriptive (what action to take) analytics.
- PHI
- Protected Health Information; individually identifiable health data transmitted or maintained in any form, governed by the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.
- Minimum necessary standard
- A HIPAA principle requiring that uses and disclosures of PHI be limited to the least amount needed to accomplish the intended purpose.
- Safe Harbor de-identification
- A HIPAA method removing 18 specified identifiers, including names, dates, and geographic data smaller than a state, so data is no longer PHI.
- RBAC
- Role-Based Access Control; assigns system permissions based on job roles, ensuring users access only the data needed for their responsibilities.
- Breach notification rule
- HIPAA requirement to notify affected individuals within 60 days of discovering a breach; breaches of 500 or more require prompt HHS notification.
- Health information exchange
- The electronic movement of health information among organizations, enabling coordinated care through query-based or push-based exchange models.
- IT governance
- The decision-making structure, including steering committees and executive roles, that prioritizes IT investments and aligns them with organizational strategy.
- ADKAR model
- A change management framework with five stages: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement, used to guide adoption of health IT changes.
- Kotter eight steps
- A change leadership model: create urgency, form coalition, vision, communicate, remove barriers, short-term wins, build on change, and anchor in culture.
- RFP vs RFI
- An RFI gathers vendor information and capabilities; an RFP solicits formal proposals with pricing and requirements for selection and contracting.
- RTO and RPO
- Recovery Time Objective is the maximum acceptable downtime; Recovery Point Objective is the maximum tolerable data loss measured in time.
- Information blocking
- A practice that unreasonably interferes with access, exchange, or use of electronic health information, prohibited under the 21st Century Cures Act.