American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - ANSWER-**Authorized
INCENTIVE PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals & healthcare professionals
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adopting & using interoperable Health Information Technology and EHR's.
The purposes of this act include the following: (1) To preserve/create jobs and promote
economic recovery. (2) To assist those most impacted by the recession. (3) To provide
investments needed to increase economic efficiency by spurring technological
advances in science and health. (4) To invest in transportation, environmental
protection, and other infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits. (5) To
stabilize state and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions
in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases.
AHQR (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) - ANSWER-Produced evidence
making healthcare safer, improve quality, accessibility and affordability
Asynchoronous Applications - ANSWER-No contact with patient for data collection. EX:
Remote pt monitoring, Using health technologies to share health metrics and data w/
providers. STORE & FORWARD APPS (ex: photos)
Administrative Information System - ANSWER-can include registration and scheduling;
tracking through admission, transfer and discharge; patient acuity and staff scheduling;
financial or accounting systems; risk management; payroll and human resources;
quality assurance; and contract management functions.
Affordable Care Act - ANSWER-law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance,
address cost reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and introduce
the Patient's Bill of Rights, increasing the number of insured persons.
Alarm Fatique - ANSWER-Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or
delaying their response to the alarm.
ANA (American Nurses Association) - ANSWER-Professional organization for all RNs.
Concerned with licensure, collective bargaining and education
Analytics - ANSWER-A term describing the extensive use of data, statistical and
quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management
to drive decisions and actions.
Audit trail - ANSWER-a report that traces who has accessed electronic information,
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