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A Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) is a computerized tool designed to assist healthcare providers in making clinical decisions by integrating medical knowledge with patient data. These systems utilize algorithms, databases, and patient information to provide tailored recommendations, alerts, and reminders to healthcare professionals at ...
The patient's health record is a legal document that contains details regarding patient's care and progress. [3] The types of information captured during the clinical point of care documentation include the actions taken by clinical staff including physicians and nurses, and the patient's healthcare needs, goals, diagnosis and the type of care ...
In computing, an enterprise[-wide] master patient index is a form of customer data integration (CDI) specific to the healthcare industry.Healthcare organizations and groups use EMPI to identify, match, merge, de-duplicate, and cleanse patient records to create a master index that may be used to obtain a complete and single view of a patient.
Medical billing, a payment process in the United States healthcare system, is the process of reviewing a patient's medical records and using information about their diagnoses and procedures to determine which services are billable and to whom they are billed. [1] This bill is called a claim. [2]
Healthcare quality and safety require that the right information be available at the right time to support patient care and health system management decisions. Gaining consensus on essential data content and documentation standards is a necessary prerequisite for high-quality data in the interconnected healthcare system of the future.
Health care analytics is the health care analysis activities that can be undertaken as a result of data collected from four areas within healthcare: (1) claims and cost data, (2) pharmaceutical and research and development (R&D) data, (3) clinical data (such as collected from electronic medical records (EHRs)), and (4) patient behaviors and preferences data (e.g. patient satisfaction or retail ...
The Inventory Information Approval System, or IIAS, is a point-of-sale technology used by retailers that accept FSA debit cards, which are issued for use with medical flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health reimbursement accounts (HRAs), and some health savings accounts (HSAs) in the United States.
Consequently, personal health record systems are becoming more common and available. In 2012, 57 percent of providers already had a patient portal. [9] At present, individual health data are located primarily on paper in physicians' files. Patient portals have been developed to give patients better access to their information.