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CPOE systems allow medical professionals to enter and track prescriptions and treatment orders electronically, helping to reduce errors and streamline care.

Six Sigma is a data-driven approach to improve the quality of healthcare delivery by identifying and eliminating defects in processes and minimizing variability.

HTA is a systematic evaluation of the properties and impacts of health technology that aims to inform policy and decision-making in healthcare to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of healthcare.

Patient Safety focuses on the prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of medical error and other issues that contribute to healthcare-associated risks and injuries.

CQI is a management philosophy that encourages all members of a healthcare organization to continuously ask how they can improve processes to provide better care and service.

ACO comprises a network of doctors and hospitals that shares financial and medical responsibility for providing coordinated care to patients with the goal of limiting unnecessary spending.

PCMH is a care delivery model that aims to improve effectiveness by involving patients in their own care and ensuring continuous, coordinated, and comprehensive care that is managed by a primary care physician.

Medical Devices Regulation ensures the safety and efficacy of medical devices through a defined set of standards that govern the production, sale, and post-market monitoring of these devices.

Health Informatics involves the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of healthcare information to foster better collaboration among a patient's various healthcare providers.

Disease Surveillance is the systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data to help guide public health decision making and actions to prevent and control diseases.

Healthcare Quality Measurement involves using various metrics to evaluate the performance of individual healthcare providers, facilities, and systems to improve healthcare quality and outcomes.

Lean Healthcare applies lean principles in healthcare settings to eliminate waste, improve processes, and enhance patient care.

Value-Based Healthcare focuses on maximizing the value of healthcare provided by improving outcomes and reducing costs. It encourages healthcare providers to offer the best care at the lowest cost.

Human Factors Engineering in healthcare looks at how healthcare workers interact with their environment and devises ways to improve these interactions to reduce errors and increase efficiency.

Health System Strengthening is an approach to improving healthcare delivery that encompasses investments and initiatives designed to improve the six building blocks of a health system: service delivery, health workforce, information, products, vaccines, financing, and governance.

Health Economics is a field of study that applies principles of economics to healthcare to understand the functioning of the healthcare system and the behavior of individuals, health care providers, and societies concerning health and health care.

Health Information Exchange allows healthcare providers and patients to appropriately access and securely share a patient's vital medical information electronically, improving the speed, quality, safety, and cost of patient care.

CDSS provides healthcare professionals with knowledge and patient-specific information, intelligently filtered or presented at appropriate times, to enhance patient care.

Population Health Management strategies use data analysis to identify and monitor groups of patients, improve the management of their health, and foster outcomes that are both care-effective and cost-effective.

Integrated Care Models strive to provide seamless, patient-centered care across different healthcare services by improving coordination and communication among care professionals.

Telehealth uses electronic information and telecommunication technologies to support long-distance clinical healthcare, patient and professional health-related education, and public health.

Healthcare Accreditation is a process of certification where a healthcare organization is assessed and found to meet pre-established performance standards to ensure quality of care and patient safety.

QIOs are groups of health quality experts, clinicians, and consumers organized to improve the care delivered to people with Medicare. They provide technical assistance, convene learning and action networks for healthcare providers, and help resolve complaints about the quality of care.

An approach in healthcare that involves making design decisions for healthcare facilities based on the best available evidence to improve patient outcomes and staff efficiency.