Glossary

Healthcare in 3D Terms and Phrases

  • Accountability — Attribution of responsibility for the increase or decrease of the value of care afforded to patient.
  • Accountable Care Organizations — Groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who voluntarily coordinated high quality health care for their Medicare patients.
  • Accountable Delivery Model — An Alternative Payment Model where payment is based on outcome accountability instead of simply Fee For Service.
  • Action — The logic of a medical decision begins with an event is classified by prior information, which stages an action in response to the event. The action can be a set of possible acts, with one or more appropriate for the event classified by prior information.
  • Action (Machine Reinforcement Learning) — The decision that could be made by the Clinician (Agent) at the Inflection Point.
  • Action Spectrum — Possible set of acts known from a patient centered context and the clinical decision at hand.
  • Activities of Daily Living (ADL) — The things we normally do in daily living including any daily activity we perform for self-care such as feeding ourselves, bathing, dressing, grooming, work, homemaking, and leisure. The ability or inability to perform ADLs can be used as a very practical measure of ability/disability in many disorders. — MedicineNet | Accessed June 23, 2022
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