Health Care Information System Terms

Health Care Information Systems Terms

Explain the subsequent terms. Your explanations should be in plain words; do not rewrite them from the workbook.

After you have explained each term in your own language, illustrate in 40 to 60 words the health care context in which each term would be appropriate. Use at least two research sources to sustain your claims—one from the textbook and the other from the University Library. Remember to mention your sources in the References section corresponding with APA guidelines.

|Term |Definition |How Used in Healthcare |

|Health Insurance Portability and |Federal laws that safeguards patients |HIPAA is critical to the healthcare |

|Accountability Act (HIPAA) |personal health details |arrangement and the associations that |

| | |administer susceptible patient details. |

| | |Without HIPAA’s stern principles, patient |

| | |details could be exposed without |

| | |difficulty. |

|Electronic medical record (EMR) |Formed within an association concerning |Electronic health check reports would be |

| |patients health details |relevant to a small or large healthcare |

| | |association that wishes to reduce the |

| | |mistakes and increase the...