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Short Message Service - SMS(or Text Messaging)
Definition: SMS is a feature available with practically all modern mobile phones that allow users to send and receive short text messages.
Basic SMS messages are addressed directly to a mobile phone number. Most U.S. carriers now allow sending to mobile phone numbers of other carriers. Most phones and carriers also support sending SMS from a phone directly to an email address.
Newer variants of SMS include
Long (Concatenated) SMS, and EMS.


Text Messaging
(or Short Message Service - SMS)
Definition: Allows short text messages to be sent and received on a mobile phone. Messages can be sent from one phone to another by addressing the message to the recipient's phone number.
Messages can also usually be sent to a phone via a special email address, through the carrier's web site, or with special messaging software and a modem.
Most phones and carriers also allow messages to be sent from a phone directly to an e-mail address.

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.


Smart cards promote great efficiencies in Europe, Asia
The Smart Set
Talking Technology with Leroy Jones, Jr.:
HEALTH/TECH TERM - SMART CARD
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Smart Card
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.

Decision Support Application

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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