Electronic Health Records 3rd Edition by Byron Hamilton

Exercise 3

Match the terms with the definitions to be listed below.
_____ 1. EHR
_____ 2. Interoperability
_____ 3. Medicare Part B
_____ 4. PDA
_____ 5. Patient portals
_____ 6. HITECH Act
_____ 7. Ambulatory
_____ 8. E-prescribing
_____ 9. Point of care
_____ 10. PMS
A. A software program that manages financial transactions, both charges and payments; the billing of insurance claims; and the issuing of patient statements.
B. This legislation was initiated by Congress to stimulate and increase the use of electronic health Record s by independent physicians and hospitals over a five-year period.
C. The time and place at which a healthcare provider gives the patient medical care.
D. A handheld mobile device that functions as a personal information manager.
E. The capability of walking or the ability to move from one place to another. In a medical sense it is used to distinguish walking patients from patients who are bedridden, as in an inpatient hospital or skilled nursing facility.
F. The most commonly accepted and used term for storing and accessing patient healthcare information electronically.
G. The use of computerized tools, usually embedded in an EHR program, to create and sign prescriptions for medicines, thereby replacing handwritten prescriptions.
H. Part of the federally funded insurance program that covers medical providers' supervision, outpatient hospital care, diagnostic tests, and other ambulatory services.
I. Online applications that are designed to allow patients access to their medical Record s and allow communication with their healthcare providers across the Internet.
J. The ability of a software program to accept, send, or communicate data from its database to other software programs from multiple vendors.