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Academic Degrees
| Academic Degree | |
| Abbreviation | Degree Title |
| Associate Degrees | |
| A.A. | Associate of Arts |
| A.A.S. | Associate of Applied Science |
| A.S. | Associate of Science |
| A.B.A. | Associate of Business Administration |
| Bachelor Degrees | |
| A.B. | Bachelor of Arts |
| B.A. | Bachelor of Arts |
| B.B.A. | Bachelor of Business Administration |
| B.E. | Bachelor of Engineering |
| B.E.E. | Bachelor of Electrical Engineering |
| B.S. | Bachelor of Science |
| B.Sc. | Bachelor of Science |
| B.S.E. | Bachelor of Science in Engineering |
| B.S.N. | Bachelor of Science in Nursing |
| B.N. | Bachelor of Nursing |
| B.Pharm. | Bachelor of Pharmacy |
| Master Degrees | |
| M.A. | Master of Arts |
| M.S.N. | Master of Science in Nursing |
| M.S. | Master of Science |
| M.Ed. | Master of Education |
| A.M. | Master of Arts |
| M.B.A. | Master of Business Administration |
| M.S.E.E. | Master of Science in Electrical Engineering |
| M.S.E. | Master of Science in Engineering |
| M.M.M. | Master of Medical Management |
| M.S.H.S. | Master of Science in Health Science |
| M.L.S. | Master of Library Science |
| M.P.S. | Master of Professional Studies |
| M.P.H. | Master of Public Health |
| L.L.M. | Master of Legal Letters |
| M.P.P. | Master of Public Policy |
| M.P.A. | Master of Public Administration |
| M.H.A. | Master of Hospital |
| M.S.Ed. | Master of Science in Education |
| Th.M. | Master of Theology |
| M.Phil. | Master of Philosophy |
| M.Div. | Master of Divinity |
| M.S.W. | Master of Social Work |
| Doctoral Degrees | |
| M.D. | Doctor of Medicine |
| D.O. | Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine |
| O.D. | Doctor of Optometry |
| D.C. | Doctor of Chiropractic |
| D.Ch. | Doctor of Chiropractic |
| D.P.H. | Doctor of Public Health |
| Dr.P.H. | Doctor of Public Health |
| D.B.A. | Doctor of Business Administration |
| J.D. | Juris Doctor (Law) |
| N.D. | Doctor of Nursing |
| D.N.Sc. | Doctor of Nursing Science |
| Sc.D. | Doctor of Science |
| D.Sc. | Doctor of Science |
| Ph.D. | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Ed.D. | Doctor of Education |
| D.P.M. | Doctor of Podiatric Medicine |
| D.S.W. | Doctor of Social Work |
| M.B., Ch.B. | Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery |
| M.D., C.M. | Doctor of Medicine/Master of Surgery |
| M.B.B.S. | Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery |
| D.A. | Doctor of Arts |
| D.Arts | Doctor of Arts |
| Psy.D. | Doctor of Clinical Psychology |
| D.D.S. | Doctor of Dental Surgery |
| D.M.D. | Doctor of Medical Dentistry |
| Au.D. | Doctor of Audiology |
| Th.D. | Doctor of Theology |
| D.Phil. | Doctor of Philosophy |
| D.D. | Doctor of Divinity |
| Pharm.D. | Doctor of Pharmacy |
| Doctoral Degrees | |
| M.D. | Doctor of Medicine |
| D.O. | Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine |
| O.D. | Doctor of Optometry |
| D.C. | Doctor of Chiropractic |
| D.Ch. | Doctor of Chiropractic |
| D.P.H. | Doctor of Public Health |
| Dr.P.H. | Doctor of Public Health |
| D.B.A. | Doctor of Business Administration |
| J.D. | Juris Doctor (Law) |
| N.D. | Doctor of Nursing |
| D.N.Sc. | Doctor of Nursing Science |
| Sc.D. | Doctor of Science |
| D.Sc. | Doctor of Science |
| Ph.D. | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Ed.D. | Doctor of Education |
| D.P.M. | Doctor of Podiatric Medicine |
| D.S.W. | Doctor of Social Work |
| M.B., Ch.B. | Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery |
| M.D., C.M. | Doctor of Medicine/Master of Surgery |
| M.B.B.S. | Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery |
| D.A. | Doctor of Arts |
| D.Arts | Doctor of Arts |
| Psy.D. | Doctor of Clinical Psychology |
| D.D.S. | Doctor of Dental Surgery |
| D.M.D. | Doctor of Medical Dentistry |
| Au.D. | Doctor of Audiology |
| Th.D. | Doctor of Theology |
| D.Phil. | Doctor of Philosophy |
| D.D. | Doctor of Divinity |
| Pharm.D. | Doctor of Pharmacy |
| D.V.M. | Doctor of Veterinary Medicine |
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- Accounting and Activity-Based Costing
- Accrual Based Accounting
- Accumulated Depreciation
- Activity Based Costing (ABC)
- Annual Percentage Rate
- Assets
- Average Collection Period
- Bad Debt Loss
- Balance Sheet
- Billing
- Book Value
- Breakeven Analysis
- Business Valuation
- Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Carve-outs
- Cash Basis of Accounting
- Compensating Differentials
- Compensation Systems
- Compound Growth Rate
- Contractual Adjustments
- Cost of Capital
- Cost-Based Reimbursement
- Credit Rating
- Days Cash on Hand
- Debt Service Coverage
- Deductible
- Depreciation
- Discounted Cash Flows
- Dividends
- Employee Compensation
- Equity
- Executive Compensation
- Factoring of Accounts Receivable
- Financial Performance Indicators (FPIs)
- Financial Statement
- Fixed Costs
- Fund Balance
- Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures
- Goodwill
- Income Statement
- Liability
- Line of Credit
- Net Present Value
- Net Working Capital
- Noncash Expense
- Operating Cash Flow
- Per Diem Payments
- Profits
- Ratio Analysis
- Return on Assets (ROA)
- Return on Owner's Equity
- Statement of Changes in Net Assets
- Throughput Accounting (TA)
- Time Value of Money
- Worker's Compensation Insurance
- Economics
- Aging Society
- Capacity and Capacity Utilization
- Comparative Statics
- Competitive Bidding
- Competitive Equilibrium
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Cost Shifting
- Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)
- Demand
- Diffusion of Innovation
- Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
- Economies of Scale
- Elasticity of Demand
- Full Price of Medical Care
- Gross Domestic Product
- Health Care
- Health Care as Luxury Goods
- Health Insurance
- Health Production Functions
- Labor Markets
- Monopoly
- Monopsony
- National Health Expenditures (NHEs)
- Opportunity Cost
- Phillips Curve
- Price Discrimination
- Price Sensitivity in Health Care Insurance
- Price Sensitivity in Health Care Services
- Production Possibilities Curve
- Productivity
- Public Goods
- Public Sector
- Rationing
- Self-Insurance
- Spending on Health Care
- Technology Assessment
- Technology Change
- Finance
- Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
- Annual Percentage Rate
- Asset
- Average Collection Period
- Bad Debt Loss
- Balance Sheet
- Balanced Scorecard
- Book Value
- Business Valuation
- Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Cash Basis of Accounting
- Compensation Systems
- Compound Growth Rate
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Contractual Adjustment
- Cost of Capital
- Cost-Based Reimbursement
- Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)
- Credit Rating
- Days Cash on Hand
- Debt Service Coverage
- Deductible
- Depreciation
- Discounted Cash Flows
- Dividends
- Employee Compensation
- Equity
- Executive Compensation
- Expected Rate of Return
- Factoring of Accounts Receivable
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) Payment
- Financial Performance Indicators (FPIs)
- Financial Statement
- Fixed Costs
- Full Price of Medical Care
- Fund Balance
- Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures
- Goodwill
- Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
- Income Statement
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Internal Rate of Return
- Investments
- Liability
- Line of Credit
- Long-Term Investments
- Net Present Value
- Net Working Capital
- Noncash Expense
- Operating Cash Flow
- Opportunity Cost
- Per Member Per Month (PMPM)
- Philanthropy in Health Care
- Profit Sharing
- Profits
- Prospective Payment System (PPS)
- Rate of Return
- Ratio Analysis
- Return on Assets
- Return on Owner's Equity
- Risk Adjustment
- Risk Selection
- Statement of Changes in Net Assets
- Time Value of Money
- Venture Capital Investment
- Workers' Compensation Insurance
- Health Policy
- Access
- Autonomous Health Care Plan/Structure
- Bed Occupancy
- Bioterrorism
- Case Mix
- Case Rate Reimbursement
- Chronic Disease
- Clinical Practice Guidelines/Pathways
- Community Health
- Community Health Status Indicators
- Competitive Bidding
- Continuity of Care
- Disenrollment
- Electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG)
- Emergency Room
- Enrollee
- Enrollment
- Entitlement Programs
- Environmental Health Science
- Episodes of Care and Disease
- Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM)
- Family-Oriented Care
- Feasibility Study
- Genomics
- Global Blood Safety Project
- Graduate Medical Education (GME)
- Health
- Health Care
- Health Care as Luxury Goods
- Health Care Provider
- Health Care Reform
- Health Care Services
- Health Care Utilization
- Health Insurance
- Health Officer and Health Commissioner
- Health Policy
- Health Status Indicators
- Healthy People 2010
- Hippocratic Oath
- Home Health Care
- Home Health Care Agencies
- Hospice
- Indigent Health Care
- Infant Mortality
- Inpatient Services
- Long-Term Care
- Mandated Coverage
- Maternal and Child Health (MCH)
- Medicaid
- Medical Appropriateness of Care
- Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs)
- Mobile Health Units
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- Neonatal Care
- Outcomes Research
- Philanthropy in Health Care
- Price Control in Pharmaceutical Industry
- Price Discrimination
- Primary Care
- Privilege
- Public Health
- Public Health Core Disciplines
- Referral
- Rehabilitation
- Release
- Residency Programs
- Risk Adjustment
- Risk Selection
- Safety-Net Providers
- Self-Insurance
- Self-Referral
- Subacute Care
- Tertiary Care
- Trauma
- U. S. Departmenf of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- U. S. Health Care System
- Underserved Populations
- Uninsured Patients
- Human Resources
- Academic Degrees
- Affirmative Action in Employment
- Aging Society
- Benefit Package
- Collective Bargaining
- Compressed Workweeks
- Conflict Management
- Employee Absenteeism
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Health
- Employee Orientation Programs
- Employee Recruitment
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Employee Turnover
- Employment Interview
- Employment References
- Empowerment (Delegation of Authority)
- Equal Pay Act
- Flextime
- Full-Time Equivalent Employee
- Group Norms
- Group Performance
- Group Think
- Healthy People 2010
- Human Resource Planning
- Human Resources
- Improving Employee Productivity
- Incentive Pay
- Job Analysis
- Job Design
- Job Satisfaction
- Labor Markets
- Labor Unions
- Leaderless Group Discussion
- Leadership
- Management Development
- Measuring Training Outcomes
- Mentoring
- Negotiation
- Organizational Behavior Management
- Organizational Communication
- Organizational Performance and Work Design
- Performance Appraisal
- Performance Management
- Performance Rating Errors
- Physician Extender
- Power
- Profit Sharing
- Progressive Discipline System
- Psychological Contracts
- Succession Planning
- Task Forces
- Team Building
- Team-Based Compensation
- Team-Based Organization
- Teamwork
- Telecommuting
- U. S. Department of Labor (DOL)
- Information Technology
- Database
- E-Health
- Electronic Claims
- Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Electronic Medical Record
- Encryption
- Hacker
- Health Information Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Health Information Systems
- Health Plan and Employer Data and Info Set (HEDIS)
- Information Technology
- Networks
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
- Strategic Issue Diagnosis (SID)
- Telecommuting
- Telemedicine
- Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- Institutions and Organizations
- Academic Medical Center
- Administrative Service Only (ASO)
- American Board of Medical Specialties
- American Board of Preventive Medicine
- American College of Healthcare Execs (ACHE)
- American Dental Association (ADA)
- American Hospital Association (AHA)
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- American Nurses Association (ANA)
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- American Red Cross (ARC)
- Birthing Centers
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS)
- Boards of Directors
- Boards of Health
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Center For Medicare & Medicaid Srvices (CMS)
- Chief Medical Officer/Medical Director
- Community Health
- Community-Based Hospital
- Contract Research Organization (CRO)
- Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH)
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
- Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Genomics
- Health Insurance Purchasing Cooperative (HIPC)
- Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)
- Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
- Hospitals
- Institute of Medicine (IOM)
- Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- Integrated Delivery System
- Integrated Service Network (ISN)
- Intermediate Care Facility (ICF)
- Learning Organizations
- Limited Liability Company (LLC)
- Local Public Health Agencies (LPHAS)
- Managed Care Organizations (MCO)
- March of Dimes
- Medical Supply Organization (MSO)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
- Not-for-Profit Organization
- Office For Human Research Protections (OHRP)
- Peer Review Organizations (PROs)
- Physician-Hospital Organizations (PHOs)
- Point-Of-Service Systems (POS)
- Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO)
- Professional Standards Review Orgs (PSRO)
- Provider
- Provider-Sponsored Organizations (PSO)
- Psychiatric Centers
- Public Hospital
- Residency Review Committee (RRC)
- Single-Specialty Group Practice
- Solo Practice
- Step-Down Facility
- Third-Party Administrators (TPA)
- U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
- U. S. Department of Labor (DOL)
- U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Visiting Nurses Association (VNA)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- International Health Care Issues
- Legal and Regulatory Issues
- Qui Tam Actions
- Advance Health Care Directives
- Age Discrimination in Employment
- Aid To Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
- Assurance of Compliance (Federal Wide Assurance, FWA)
- Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA)
- Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991
- Claim
- Claims Management
- Code of Ethics
- Collective Bargaining
- Compliance
- Credentialing
- Durable Power of Attorney For Health Care (DPAHC)
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
- Employee Rights
- Employee Selection and Hiring
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Employment Testing and Evaluation
- Equal Pay Act
- Ethical Issues Faced by Managers
- Ethics Officer
- Excess Liability Coverage
- Executive Order 11246 on Affirmative Action
- Exposure
- Fair Employment and Public Policy
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Federal Regulating Agencies
- Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
- Incident
- Indemnification
- Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
- Judgment
- Kickbacks
- Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
- Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)
- Living Wills
- Malpractice
- Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs)
- Medicare Risk Contract
- National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)
- Negligence
- Noncompete Agreements
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
- Occurrence Coverage
- Occurrence Screening
- Premium
- Privacy Issues
- Professional Corporation
- Professional Standards Review Organizations
- Referral
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Scope of Practice
- Self-Referral
- Sentinel Event
- Settlement
- Standard of Care
- Stark Law
- Statute of Limitations
- Structured Settlement
- Summons
- Tail Coverage
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Unanticipated Outcome Disclosure
- Vicarious Liability
- Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program
- Managed Care
- Ambulatory Care
- Carve-Out
- Compensating Differentials
- Enrollee
- Enrollment
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Fee-for-Service
- Health Care Reform
- Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)
- Length of Stay
- Managed Care
- Managed Care Plans
- Mandated Coverage
- Medical Care
- Out-Of-Network Services
- Patterns of Care
- Per Diem Payments
- Per Member Per Month (PMPM)
- Prospective Payment System (PPS)
- Marketing and Customer Value
- Adopter Categories
- Advertising
- Ambulatory Care
- Comparative Advertising
- Complementary Products
- Customer
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Customer Satisfaction Research
- Customer Value
- Database Marketing
- Direct Marketing
- Environmental Scanning/Analysis
- Exclusive Distribution
- Expansion Strategies
- First-Mover Advantage
- Franchising
- Goods-Services Continuum
- Hypercompetition
- Integrated Marketing Communications
- Intensive Distribution
- Licensing
- Loyalty in Health Care Consumer
- Maintenance of Scope
- Market Entry Strategies
- Market Opportunity Analysis
- Market Segmentation
- Marketing Concept
- Marketing Mix
- Marketing Plan
- Marketing Research
- Marketing Value
- Mass Customization
- Mystery Shoppers
- Non Price Competition in Hospitals
- One-to-One Marketing
- Patient Expectations
- Perceptual Gaps in Services Quality
- Physician-Patient Relationship
- Press Releases
- Product
- Product Classes
- Product Life Cycle (PLC) Analysis
- Product Line Extensions
- Product Mix
- Public Relations
- Sales Forecasting
- Selective Distribution
- Service Area Competitor Analysis
- Service Quality
- Services
- Social Marketing
- Substitute Product
- Wellness
- Women as Major Health Care Consumers
- Operations and Decision Making
- Capacity and Capacity Utilization
- Clinical Decision Making
- Decentralization of Decision Making
- Decision
- Decision Support Systems
- Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
- Empowerment (Delegation of Authority)
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Excess Capacity
- Facilities Management
- Future Search
- Geographic Information System
- Health Care Service Operation
- Health Production Functions
- Just In Time and Health Care Management
- Mass Customization
- Nominal Group Technique (NGT)
- Operations Management
- Outsourcing
- Production Possibilities Curve
- Queuing
- Root Cause Analysis
- Sales Forecasting
- Service Operation
- Statement of Operations
- Supply Chain Management
- Technology Assessment
- Technology Change
- Theory of Constraints
- Utilization Review
- Value Chain for Health Care
- Waiting Time
- Pharmaceuticals and Clinical Trials
- Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR)
- Adverse Event (AE)
- Adverse Selection and Impact
- Alternative Medicine (Complementary Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Unconventional Medicine)
- Assurance
- Belmont Report
- Biotechnology
- Blinding
- Case Report Form (CRF)
- Clinical Research
- Clinical Trials
- Contract Research Organization (CRO)
- Control Group
- Critical Paths
- Data Management
- Declaration of Helsinki Laws
- Demographics
- Drug Coverage
- Effective Dose
- Efficacy
- Exclusion Criteria
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Formularies
- Generic Drug
- Good Clinical Practices (GCPs)
- In Vitro Testing
- In Vivo Testing
- Inclusion Criteria
- Informed Consent
- Investigational New Drug Application (IND)
- Investigator (Principal Investigator)
- Kefauver-Harris Amendments
- Longitudinal Study
- Medical Genetics
- MedWatch Program
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- New Drug Application (NDA)
- Off Label
- Open-Ended Study
- Open-Label Study
- Orphan Drug
- Out-of-Network Services
- Over-the-Counter (OTC)
- Phase I Study (Phase I Clinical Trial)
- Phase II Study
- Phase III Study
- Phase IV Study
- Pivotal Studies
- Placebo
- Preclinical Testing
- Premedicate (Premedication)
- Prescription
- Price Control in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Protocol (Involving Human Subjects)
- Quality Assurance
- Randomization
- Recruitment
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Standard Treatment
- Study Arms
- Subinvestigator
- Subject, Human Research
- Vital Signs
- Vulnerable Research Subject Population
- Quality
- Academic Degrees
- Care Management
- Case Management
- Clinical Practice Guidelines/Pathways
- Common Cause Variation
- Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
- Control Chart
- Disease Management
- Electrocardigram (EKG or ECG)
- Flowchart
- Global Blood Safety Projects
- Health Status Indicators
- Hippocratic Oath
- Length of Stay
- Maternal and Child Health
- Medical Care
- Medical Errors
- Morbidity
- Mortality
- National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)
- Outcomes Research
- Pareto Chart
- Patterns of Care
- Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Improvement Cycle
- Quality Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Run Chart
- Service Quality
- Six-Sigma Program
- Special Cause Variation
- Statistical Process Control (SPC)
- Statistical Thinking
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Utilization Review
- Wellness
- Zero Defects
- Statistics and Data Mining
- Strategy
- Alliances
- Authority
- Balanced Scorecard
- BCG Portfolio Analysis
- Boards of Directors
- Breakeven Analysis
- Business Plan
- Co-opetition
- Coalitions
- Collaborative Partnership
- Competitive Advantage
- Competitive Strategy and Groups
- Contraction Strategy
- Cooperation Strategies
- Critical Success Factors
- Culture and Culture Change
- Culture and Strategy
- Diversification Strategies
- Divestiture Strategies
- Emergent Strategy
- Environmental Analysis
- Expansion Strategies
- Generic Strategies
- Harvesting Strategies
- Horizontal Integration
- Industry Analysis
- Internal Environmental Analysis
- Long-Range Planning
- Managed Competition
- Managing Organizational Change
- Market Entry Strategies
- Merger and Acquisition
- Mission
- Networks
- Niche Strategies
- Nonprice Competition in Hospitals
- Objectives
- Organizational Change
- Organizational Design and Discontinuous Change
- Product Life Cycle Analysis
- Service Area Competitor Analysis
- Strategic Alternatives
- Strategic Assumptions
- Strategic Business Units (SBU)
- Strategic Change
- Strategic Control
- Strategic Decision
- Strategic Fit
- Strategic Group
- Strategic Issue Diagnosis (SID)
- Strategic Leadership
- Strategic Management
- Strategic Management Process
- Strategic Service Unit (SSU)
- Strategic Thinking
- Strategy
- Structure
- Subsidiary Corporations
- SWOT (Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Threat) Analysis
- Synergy
- Value Chain for Health Care
- Values (Guiding Principles)
- Vertical Integration
- Vision
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