Category: MAOTD (Medicaid Acronym of the Day)

HRSA’s Office of Health Information Technology and Quality  – Office that supports all HiT work and cross cutting quality initiatives in HRSA.

Further reading 

https://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/

Notice of Award – The official written notification of the funding award sent to the grantee or cooperative agreement by HRSA.

Further reading 

https://www.hrsa.gov/grants/manage/awardmanagement/notice/noticepage2.html

National Association of Community Health Centers – To address the widespread lack of access to basic health care, Community Health Centers serve 20 million people at more than 8,000 sites located throughout all 50 states and U.S. territories.

Further reading 

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Meaningful Use – Meaningful Use is the way in which EHR technologies must be implemented and utilized for a provider to be eligible for the EHR Incentive Programs and to qualify for incentive payments.

Further reading 

https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/meaningful-use-definition-objectives

Memorandum of Agreement – A signed agreement between two or more parties to establish specified policies or activities.

Further reading 

https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/American-Indian-Alaska-Native/AIAN/LTSS-TA-Center/pdf/memorandum-of-agreement.pdf

Medicaid Management Information System – The MMIS is an integrated group of procedures and computer processing operations (subsystems) developed at the general design level to meet principal objectives. For Title XIX purposes, “systems mechanization” and “mechanized claims processing and information retrieval systems” is identified in section 1903(a)(3) of the Act and defined in regulation at 42 CFR 433.111. The objectives of this system and its enhancements include the Title XIX program control and administrative costs; service to recipients, providers and inquiries; operations of claims control and computer capabilities; and management reporting for planning and control.

Further reading 

https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/data-and-systems/mmis/modules/index.html

Migrant Health Center – Provides health care services to migrant and seasonal farm workers and their families.

Further reading 

https://bphc.hrsa.gov/qualityimprovement/strategicpartnerships/nacmh/index.html

Maternal and Child Health Bureau – HRSA bureau that administers programs (including grants) which seek to improve the health of mothers, children, and families.

Further reading 

https://mchb.hrsa.gov/about-maternal-and-child-health-bureau-mchb

International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems  – A medical classification system of codes for classifying an array of symptoms and causes for injury or disease.

Further reading 

http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/

Health Resources and Services Administration – HHS OPDIV which seeks to improve access to health care for underserved populations.

Further reading 

https://www.hrsa.gov/about/index.html