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== Electronic Health Record == | == Electronic Health Record == | ||
Revision as of 14:35, 3 June 2012
Contents
Computer Terms
- AHP
- Analytic Hierarchy Protocol
- AJAX
- Asynchronous Javascript and XML - Programming that allows applications to transfer data from a server to a user without having to reload the webpage (1)
- ASP
- Application Service Provider - Method to provide a computer application over the internet as opposed to having on the hardware (1)
- DHTML
- Dynamic HTML - see AJAX
- DSL
- Digital Subscriber Line
- EDI
- Electronic Data Interchange - standards that allows companies to use computers and the internet to conduct business such as billing (1)
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language - Notation system which describes how a hypertext document should appear on a display screen(2)
- HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Process which allows hypertext documents to be transferred between browsers and the web(2)
- OCR
- Optical Character Recognition - Application which attempts to determine what character is intended on a scanned document(1)
- OS
- Operating System
- RIAs
- Rich Internet Applications - see AJAX
- SSL
- Secure Socket Layer
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator: Unique address used to locate a document on the internet(2).
- VPN
- Virtual Private Network
- WLAN
- Wireless Local Area Network
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language: Standardized system for representing data as text files which is human readable(1,2)
Electronic Health Record
- CDR
- Clinical Data Repository
- CDS
- Clinical Decision Support - see CDS
- CDSS
- Clinical Decision Support System
- CIS
- Clinical Information System - EHR is the preferred term
- CPOE
- Computerized Physician Order Entry - see CPOE
- CPR
- Computer-based Patient Record
- EBM
- Evidence Based Medicine - see EBM
- EHR
- Electronic Health Record - Preferred name
- eMAR
- electronic Medication Administration Record
- EMPI
- Enterprise Master Person (or Patient) Index - A database that lives on a the network of a healthcare enterprise and keeps track of relevant information about people who are of interest to the enterprise
- EMR
- Electronic Health Record - EHR is the preferred term see EMR
- HIE
- Health Information Exchanges
- HIT
- Health Information Technology
- LAB
- Laboratory Accreditation Bureau
- LIS
- Laboratory Information System
- MPI
- Master Patient Index
- NPI
- National Provider Identifier
- PHR
- Personal Health Record - see PHR
- PIS
- Pharmacy Information System
- RIS
- Radiology Information System
Government Organization
Organizations
Standards
- SNOMED CT
- ACRONYM
References
- fff-
- Brookshear JG. Computer science: an overview. 10th ed. Boston. Addison Wesley.pp 81-188.
Submitted by Jerry Stultz, MD
