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How We Function: We work just like an industry specific Wiki (Hawaiian), or enterprise-focused and meaning-based search engine like: Endeca, Fast, Vivisimio or Anatomy.
Who Should Submit: Medical and financial professionals, advisors, and accountants; nurse-executives, lawyers, healthcare administrators, managers and CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, CIOs, CSOs, COOs; insurance agents, benefits and wealth managers; MCOs, HMOs, IPAs, PHOs and third party payers; IT gurus, patients, laymen and all stakeholders in domestic healthcare are fertile contributors.
What to Submit: Please submit substantive new term(s), abbreviation(s), morpheme(s), allomorph(s), lexeme(s) or unusual lexical component(s), acronym(s), slang expression(s) or other derivation(s) not contained in our printed Health Dictionary Series™. Submit more than one. Include suggested definitions and strings; simple or complex:
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If not already included in a print Dictionary or our electronic database, or submitted by another visitor; we will have them professionally reviewed. If the submission passes muster, the term(s) will be included in the next appropriate Health Dictionary edition.
Those who submit the most definitions will receive a chance to win a complimentary Health Dictionary of choice; autographed by our Celebrity Editor(s) and various linguistic academics. And, your name may be placed on our website and acknowledged in an upcoming Health Dictionary Series™ edition for posterity. All decisions of the judges remain final.
Why Submit: By its very nature, the Health Dictionary Series™ is ripe for periodic updates by engaged-readers working in the fluctuating health care industrial complex. Internet connectivity is the best way for the Health Dictionary Series™ to be edited and revised to reflect the changing lexicon of terms, as older words are retired, and newer ones are continually created. Moreover, we do not simply listen to our customers, colleagues, visitors and clients; we believe that true innovation means putting the development tools in their hands, stepping back, and allowing them to lead the way!
So, become immortal, of-sorts. We are a flexible and market responsive firm, committed to making these encyclopedic tools a valuable resource of the future.
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Acronyms:
AAFPCHIT: American Academy of Family Physicians Center for Health Information Technology
AAHAM: American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management
AAHC: American Association of Healthcare Consultants
AAPC: American Academy of Professional Coders
ABBC: Advanced BioTelecommunications and Bioinformatics Center
Complex Strings:
Regional Health Information Organization [RHIO]:There are three architecture definitional types:
Federated architecture (decentralized): An approach to the coordinated sharing and interchange of electronic health information emphasizing partial, controlled sharing among autonomous databases within a RHIO. Independent databases (decentralized) are connected to share and exchange information. Components in a federated architecture represent the various users, applications, workstations, main frames and other stakeholder components in a RHIO. Each component controls its interactions with other components by means of an export schema and an import schema. The export scheme specifies the information that a component will share with other components, while the import schema specifies the non-local information that a component wishes to manipulate. The federated architecture provides a means to share data and transactions using messaging services, combine information from several components and coordinate activities among autonomous components.
Centralized architecture: An approach to RHIO data sharing and inter-change of electronic information emphasizing full control over data sharing through a centralized repository. Components in a centralized architecture refer to the Central Data Repository (CDR) and the requestor. The CDR authenticates the requestor through a technological means, authorizes the transaction and records it for audit and reporting purposes.
Hybrid architecture: A combination of the two architecture types where various data transactions occur based on a decentralized or centralized method. For instance, a RHIO may have pharmacy transactions occurring within a federated model while lab test data is shared through a centralized database. The providers in a hybrid architecture may decide to share patient data through a CDR or peer to peer.
Terms:
E-CODE: International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition, Clinical Modification code that describes an injury or adverse medicine reaction, rather than disease or illness for medical reimbursement purposes.
ECONOMETRICS: The study of economics, or one who studies economics; especially health care economics
ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY (EOQ): The optimal or least costly quantity of inventory or Durable Medical Equipment (DME) which should be purchased, and on what schedule; assumes:
- Constant demand rate
- Constant lead time
- Entire quantity received at once
- Constant unit costs
- No limits on size of inventory
The mathematical formula for EOQ is the square root of 2SO/C: where inputs: S = annual usage or purchases in units; O is the cost per order; and C is the annual carrying cost per unit.
ECONOMIC MEDICAL VALUE ADDED (EMVA): Concept that combines finance, and accounting income to determine medical practice, clinic, hospital or other health care business-enterprise entity operations value as an on-going concern; medical economic value added; termed coined by the Institute of Medical Business Advisors, Inc., (iMBA, Inc.) of Atlanta.
ECONOMY, HEALTH CARE: The mechanism through which the use of doctors, nurses, labor, land, vehicles, equipment, instruments, buildings, drugs and other physical and cognitive resources are organized to meet the health care demands of patients in a society.
ELASTIC DEMAND: Occurs when the price of elasticity of demand for health care or other goods, products or services exceed one (1) unit.
ELASTIC SUPPLY: Occurs when the price of elasticity of supply for health care or other goods, products or services is greater than one (1) unit.
Unusual Definitions: Unique terms or slang expressions that play an active role in the health industry are also needed (i.e., Aunt Millie, Bowie Bonds, doughnut-hole, green-shoes, etc).
Ode to the Dictionary?
God said: “Let Spirit perish into form.”
And lexicographers arose, a swarm?
Thought fled and left her clothes, which they took,
And catalogued each garment in a book,
Now, from her leafy covert when she cries,
“Give my clothes and I’ll return”, they rise
And scan the list, and say without compassion,
“Excuse us – they are mostly out of fashion.”
-- Sigismund Smith --
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