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WGU D220 Informatics Study Guide, With Complete Solutions, A+ Guide-American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) - **Authorized INCENTIVE PAYMENTS to specific types of hospitals & healthcare professionals for 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) - Produced evidence making healthcare safer, improve quality, accessibility and affordability Asynchoronous Applications - 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 - 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 - 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 - Becoming desensitized to patient care alarms and missing or delaying their response to the alarm. ANA (American Nurses Association) - Professional organization for all RNs. Concerned with licensure, collective bargaining and education Analytics - 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 - a report that traces who has accessed electronic information, when information was accessed, and whether any information was changed Authentication - A method for confirming users' identities Authorization - The process of giving someone permission to do or have something Barcode Scanning Technology - Scans drug and patients wristband to verify medication order, inventory control, + pt identification, correct med admin Big Data - a collection of large, complex data sets, including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed without the use of information technology Bioinformatics - application of mathematics and computer science to store, retrieve, and analyze biological data Biometrics - the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting Business Continuity Plan - A plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interr

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