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AACP Annual Meeting
AACP Annual Meeting
2015-07-11 - 2015-07-15    
All Day
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Cente
The AACP Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of academic pharmacy administrators, faculty and staff, and each year offers 70 or more educational programs that cut across [...]
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Engage, Innovation in Patient Engagement
Engage, Innovation in Patient Engagement
2015-07-14 - 2015-07-15    
All Day
Hyatt Regency Bethesda
MedCity ENGAGE is an executive-level event where the industry’s brightest minds and leading organizations discuss best-in-class approaches to advance patient engagement and healthcare delivery. ENGAGE is the [...]
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mHealth + Telehealth World 2015
mHealth + Telehealth World 2015
2015-07-20 - 2015-07-22    
All Day
Seaport Hotel
The role of technology in health care is growing year after year. Join us at mHealth + Telehealth World 2015 to learn strategies to keep [...]
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2015 OSEHRA Open Source Summit
2015 OSEHRA Open Source Summit
2015-07-29 - 2015-07-31    
All Day
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
Join the Premier Open Source Health IT Summit! Looking to gain expertise in both public and private sector open source health IT?  Want to collaborate [...]
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Events on 2015-07-11
AACP Annual Meeting
AACP Annual Meeting
11 Jul 15
National Harbor, Maryland
Events on 2015-07-14
Engage, Innovation in Patient Engagement
Engage, Innovation in Patient Engagement
14 Jul 15
Bethesda
Events on 2015-07-20
mHealth + Telehealth World 2015
mHealth + Telehealth World 2015
20 Jul 15
Boston
Events on 2015-07-29
2015 OSEHRA Open Source Summit
2015 OSEHRA Open Source Summit
29 Jul 15
Bethesda
Glossary

EHR Glossary:

April 5, 2014
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  • Ambulatory care: is any medical care delivered on an outpatient basis.
  • CCHIT: Acronym for Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.
  • Computerized Patient Record (CPR): Also known as an EMR or EHR. A patient’s past, present, and future clinical data stored in a server.
  • Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE): A system for physicians to electronically order labs, imaging and prescriptions.
  • Fee Schedule: A set maximum fee that an insurance company will pay a healthcare provider.
  • HIPAA: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, is a set of federal regulations which establishes national standards for health care information.
  • ICD-9: Internationally recognizable 3 to 5-digit code representing a medical diagnosis. Currently being replaced by the ICD-10 code.
  • National Provider Identifier (NPI): A unique number to define healthcare providers.
  • EHR- Electronic Health Records focus on the total health of the patient-going beyond standard clinical data collected in the provider’s office and inclusive of a broader view on a patient’s care. EHRs are designed to reach out beyond the health organization that originally collects and compiles the information.
  • HIT- Health Information Technology is the area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry.
  • PACS- Picture Archive Communication System is used by radiology and diagnostic imaging organizations to electronically manage information and images.
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