Administrador

HMIS Standards
Grand Canyon University: Health Information Technology and Management
Kevin Hayes
September 5, 2012

Define the following terms:

a. Medicine. The term comes from the Latinmedicine refers to medicine and science that can prevent and cure diseases of the human body. Medicine is also used synonymously with medication (Latin medicamentum), which is the substance that canprevent, alleviate or cure the disease or its sequelae. Medicine, next to the pharmacy, nursing and other disciplines, form the group of health sciences, dedicated to the diagnosis, prevention andtreatment of disease (Medical Education, 2012).
b. Medical informatics is the interdisciplinary area common to the health sciences and the information, that with the use of appropriate technology allowsin an authorized form to collect, store, process, retrieve and disseminate data to acquire, expand, and refine knowledge, leading to a rational and timely decisions.
c. Standard is a voluntarydocument containing technical specifications based on the results of the experience and technological development. The rules are the result of consensus among all stakeholders involved in the activity towhich it relates. They must be approved by a recognized standards body. Standards provide a level of quality and safety that allow any company to better position itself in the market and are animportant source of information for professionals in any economic activity (BSI Education, 2008).
d. HIPAA is the 1996 federal law known as (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Theprimary goal of the law was to enable people to maintain health insurance, to protect the confidentiality and security of health care information and help the healthcare industry to controladministrative costs. The act consists of provisions for administrative simplification to establish standards and requirements for the electronic submission of certain information to health care. It also asks...