Telehealth - ANSWER-A broad term having to do with providing health care services from a distance. A direct service provided from a distance to
... [Show More] clients/patients, consultations to other health care professionals, education related to health care to clients or other health care professionals, and coordination of care (helping integrated physical and behavioral health concerns to improve the outcomes for both, reducing unnecessary readmissions, reducing medication errors, treatment errors, wrong diagnosis).
Telemental health - ANSWER-Providing psychotherapy directly to a client when the clinician and the client are not in the same location. Telemental health and mental health services are not separate services. It is the same service, provided by different means.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) - ANSWER-A healthcare organization characterized by a payment and care delivery model that seeks to tie provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an assigned population of patients. (Wikipedia)
Analog - ANSWER-A continuous signal where the time varying variable is represented by another time varying quantity. It differs from a digital signal where a continuous quantity is represented by a discrete function that only takes on one of a finite number of values.
Application Service Provider (ASP) - ANSWER-An ASP hosts a variety of applications on a central server. For a fee, customers can access the applications over secure Internet connections or a private network. This means that they do not need to purchase, install or maintain the software themselves; instead they rent the applications they need from the ASP. New releases, such as software upgrades, are generally included in the price.
Asynchronous - ANSWER-Term describing store and forward transmission of medical images and/or data because the data transfer takes place over a period of time, and typically in separate time frames. The transmission typically does not take place simultaneously. This is the opposite of synchronous (see below).
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - ANSWER-A telecommunications standard to support voice, video and data communications. The mode uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing and encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells rather than packets or frames.
Authentication - ANSWER-A method of verifying the identity of a person sending or receiving information using passwords, keys and other automated identifiers. [Show Less]