Authorised firms are bound, unless risk transfer applies, by the FSA to segregate all client money on a daily basis in accordance with the client money rule 4 in the Client Asset Sourcebook for designated investment business and rule 5 for general insurance. For investment business this means segregating money belonging to the client held either as free money or settlement money. For general insurance, client money usually means premiums received from a customer but also covers return premiums and claims money if received for the client. Money received by general insurance intermediaries, other than under a risk transfer agreement, must be segregated in a statutory or non-statutory trust meaning the money is ‘ringfenced’ and therefore beyond the reach of the intermediary’s creditors.
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Client service department
See: customer service department.
Client/server system
Computer configuration that allows several local area network–based workstations (clients) to share access to a more powerful server computer, as might be used in a health care management plan. Processes are divided between two systems (client and server) that work together to perform a task such as obtaining information from a database.
Clinic
Outpatient facility that provides medical services by a group of physicians practicing medicine together and assumes health care responsibility for ambulatory patients (e.g., physical therapy for rehabilitative purposes, diagnostic x-rays, laboratory tests, educational services).
Clinic without walls (CWW)
Corporation formed by several medical practices with administrative and contracting functions centralized. Physicians’ offices have different locations, but all patient revenue is shared by the group. Sometimes called group practice without walls. See group without walls (GWW).
Clinical
1. Pertaining to a clinic. 2. Pertaining to direct bedside medical or nursing care. 3. Pertaining to materials or equipment used in the care of a sick person. 4. Experience of students in training. 5. Pertaining to tasks connected with medical practice.
Clinical breast exam
Examination of a patient by a physician to check for breast cancer by feeling and inspection. It is not the same as a mammogram and is performed in a doctor’s office during a Papanicolaou test and pelvic examination.
Clinical data repository (CDR)
Computer-based patient record (CPR) that contains a collection of clinical key data from several sources. These data may be monitored and analyzed and are retrievable. The data can be assembled into reports or used for help in decision making. They can also be part of an institutional information warehouse or community or state health information system. Sometimes referred to as a data warehouse or clinical data warehouse (CDW).
Clinical decision support system (CDSS)
Method used to provide clinical data to health care providers and clinicians with the use of embedded flags (e.g., alert to a case manager that a patient’s eligibility for a specific medical service is almost used up). CDSS is a major functional requirement to support a clinical or critical pathway.
Clinical evaluation
In a workers’ compensation case, collection of data by a physician for assessing the health of an individual for the purpose of creating a medical management plan and beginning a course of treatment.