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| Total Cost of Ownership: A long-term view of all costs associated with a specific technology investment. include that of acquiring, installing, using, maintaining, changing, and disposing of a technology during its useful life. |
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| Transaction-Based Model: A business model based on service fees charged for each transaction conducted. |
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| ARRA American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 |
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| ARRA American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: 2009 federal stimulus bill. |
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| CFR Code of Federal Regulations |
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| CFR Code of Federal Regulations: the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. |
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| HITECH Healthcare Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act |
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| HITECH Healthcare Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act: legislatively created the Office of the National Coordinator, its funding, and the associated policy groups on HIT. |
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| HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) |
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| HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society): a comprehensive healthcare-stakeholder membership organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of IT and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. |
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| MU (Meaningful Use Criteria) |
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| MU (Meaningful Use Criteria): These are the ways in which practitioners must use federally-certified EHR products in order to secure EHR incentive program payments from either Medicare or Medicaid. |
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| MDSS (Michigan Disease Surveillance System) |
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| MDSS (Michigan Disease Surveillance System): The MDSS is a Web based communicable disease reporting system. built to provide for the secure transfer, maintenance and analysis of communicable disease surveillance information. |
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| MCIR (Michigan Care Improvement Registry) |
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| MCIR (Michigan Care Improvement Registry): created in 1998 to collect reliable immunization information and make it accessible to authorized users online. reduces vaccine preventable diseases, over-vaccination, and allows providers to see up-to-date patient immunization history. |
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| MiHIN (Michigan Health Information Network) |
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| MiHIN (Michigan Health Information Network): MiHIN, Michigan’s HIE strategy, is designed to ensure that all of the information a provider needs about a patient is available at the point of care. The purpose of HIE is to give Michigan providers the right information at the right time to make the most informed decision possible. |
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| NHIN (National Health Information Network) |
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| NHIN (National Health Information Network): Describes the technologies, standards, laws, policies, programs and practices that enable health information to be shared among health decision makers (including consumers and patients) to promote improvements in health and healthcare. |
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| ONC (Office of the National Coordinator) |
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| ONC (Office of the National Coordinator): Is a government agency (part of HHS) that oversees and encourages the development of a national, interoperable (compatible) health information technology system to improve the quality and efficiency of health care. |
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| ACO (Accountable Care Organization) |
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| ACO (Accountable Care Organization): An organization of health care providers that agrees to be accountable for the quality, cost, and overall care of beneficiaries who are enrolled in the traditional fee-for-service program who are assigned to it. |
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| PCMH Patient-Centered Medical Home |
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| PCMH Patient-Centered Medical Home: The Medical Home, also known as Patient- Centered Medical Home (PCMH), is defined as an approach to providing comprehensive primary care that facilitates partnerships between individual patients, and their personal Providers, and when appropriate, the patient’s family. The provision of medical homes may allow better access to health care, increase satisfaction with care, and improve health. |
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| SMHP State Medicaid Health Information Technology Plan |
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| SMHP State Medicaid Health Information Technology Plan: the state Medicaid plan for the implementation of the relevant sections of HITECH and the EHR Incentives. Such plans are expected to explain how existing technologies will be leveraged, as well as how HIEs and other technologies will achieve interoperability with the rest of the health care delivery system. |
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| Open source: Software in which the source code is available to users, who can read and modify the code. |
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| OpenEHR: public specifications and implementations for EHR systems and communication. also develops and publishes EHR specifications and open source EHR implementations, which are currently being used in Australia and parts of Europe. |
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