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Vital Statistics
Definition: Statistics relating to births (natality), deaths (mortality), marriages, health, and disease (morbidity). Vital statistics for the United States are published by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Vital statistics can be obtained from Centers for Disease Control (CDC), state health departments, county health departments and other agencies.
An individual patient's vital statistics in a health care setting may also refer simply to blood pressure, temperature, height and weight, etc.
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FirewallDefinition: A computer connected both to the Internet and the local Hospital Information Network (HIN) that prevents the passing of Internet traffic, in the form of Internet Protocol (IP) packets, to the internal hospital network. Provides an added layer of protection against "hackers."
There are two kinds of firewalls: external, which protect all hospital systems form the outside world, and internal, which protect only selected systems. Firewall disadvantages: it restricts information transfer in both directions, and makes file transfer (ftp) and telnet (remote login) more difficult.
Outpatient Hospital Care
Definition: Medical or surgical care furnished by a hospital to a patient if that patient has not been admitted as an inpatient but is registered on hospital records as an outpatient.
If a doctor orders that a patient be placed under observation, it may be considered outpatient care, even if the patient stays under observation overnight.
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Encryption
Definition: A mathematical transposition of a file or data stream so that it cannot be deciphered at the receiving end without the proper key.
Encryption is a security feature that assures that only the parties who are supposed to be participating in a videoconference or data transfer are able to do so.
This has not been an essential feature for telemedicine systems, but with the growing concern about patient privacy in telemedicine networks it may become one.
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Beneficiary Liability
Liabilities include copayments, deductibles, and balance billing amounts.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has very strict rules about health providers billing patients for their liabilities.
Cost based facilities are not allowed to charge non-payment by beneficiaries to bad debt unless a clear history of collection activity is recorded.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Definition: Is a Federal agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Programs for which CMS is responsible include Medicare, Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), HIPAA and CLIA. Formerly was HCFA.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has historically maintained the UB-92 institutional EMC format specifications, the professional EMC NSF specifications, and specifications for various certifications and authorizations used by the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
CMS is responsible for oversight of HIPAA administrative simplification transaction and code sets, health identifiers, and security standards.
CMS also maintains the HCPCS medical code set and the Medicare Remittance Advice Remark Codes administrative code set.
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Smart Card
Definition: An electronic device about the
size of a credit card that contains electronic memory and, increasingly, an embedded microchip.
The cards are used to store data-in a health care context, this is often personal health information.
The data can be accessed using a smart card reader: a device into which the card is inserted. Smart cards are not the same as magnetic stripe cards, such as most credit cards; smart cards typically can store more information.
size of a credit card that contains electronic memory and, increasingly, an embedded microchip. The cards are used to store data-in a health care context, this is often personal health information.
The data can be accessed using a smart card reader: a device into which the card is inserted. Smart cards are not the same as magnetic stripe cards, such as most credit cards; smart cards typically can store more information.
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Decision Support Application
Definition: A computer program that analyzes data and presents the information so that clinicians can make medical decisions more easily. Typical tasks of a decision support system include data storage, data analysis, predictive modeling, and risk-adjusted comparison of actual outcomes with predicted outcomes.
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