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agency for healthcare research and quality — ahrq
AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The agency has focused its health IT activities on the following three goals: [..]
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alert fatigue
A commonly observed condition among physicians overwhelmed with large numbers of clinically insignificant alerts, thus causing them to "tune out" and potentially miss an important dr [..]
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cause and effect diagram
A tool that can be used to graphically classify all potential root causes.
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clinical decision support — cds
Computer tools or applications to assist physicians in clinical decisions by providing evidence-based knowledge in the context of patient-specific data. Typically a decision support system responds to [..]
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computerized physician order entry — cpoe
A computer application that allows a physician’s orders for diagnostic and treatment services (such as medications, laboratory, and other tests) to be entered electronically, instead of being record [..]
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early adopter
An organization or individual who embraces new technology or administrative practices before others typically do.
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electronic health record — ehr
A real-time patient health record with access to evidence-based decision-support tools that can be used to aid clinicians in decision making. The EHR can automate and streamline a clinician's [..]
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e-prescribe — electronic prescribing — erx
A type of computer technology whereby physicians use handheld or personal computer devices to review drug and formulary coverage and to transmit prescriptions to a printer or to a local pharmacy. E-pr [..]
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failure modes and effects analysis — fmea
A widely-used risk assessment technique for identifying, prioritizing and fixing potential system failures before an adverse event actually occurs. Because FMEA is prospective — rather than retrospect [..]
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