An informal term used to define a machine-to-person communication that is important, urgent and/or time sensitive. An alert includes user requested content such as a reminder (important), a notification (urgent), and ultimately an alert (important and urgent).
Application Integration (sometimes called Enterprise Application Integration or EAI) is the process of bringing data or a function from one application program together with that of another application program. Where these programs already exist, the process is sometimes realized by using middleware, either packaged by a vendor or written on a custom basis.
ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. Today, some 12,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance safety, facilitate market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.
A detailed evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, project, product and/or transactions. Audits are performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information and also provide an assessment of a system's internal control. The goal of an audit is to record an objective finding on the person/organization/system under evaluation based on work done on a test basis.
An informal term used to define a machine-to-person communication that is important, urgent and/or time sensitive. An alert includes user-requested content such as a reminder (important), a notification (urgent), and ultimately an alert (important and urgent).
Automated Backup is the activity of having a program that automatically copies the contents of database files and log files so that they are preserved in case of equipment failure or other catastrophe. Backups usually are a routine part of the operation of large businesses as well as the administrators of smaller business computers.
Best practice describes the process of developing and following a standard way of doing things that multiple organizations can use to define the most efficient (least amount of effort) and effective (best results) way of accomplishing a task. It is based on repeatable procedures that have been proven over time and across large populations. This business buzzword is used frequently in healthcare and both hardware and software product development.
Breast screening or mammography is the process of using low-energy X-rays to examine the human breast and is used as a diagnostic and a screening tool. The goal of mammography is the early detection of breast cancer, typically through detection of characteristic masses and/or microcalcifications.
A defined process or document, which is based on an assessment of individual care needs. This is formulated from evidence-based assessment and risk-assessment tools.
A systematic way of looking at events, collecting data, analyzing information, and reporting the results. As a result the researcher may gain a sharpened understanding of why the instance happened as it did, and what might become important to look at more extensively in future research.
Chronic Disease Management is a clinical management process of care. It spans the continuum of care from primary prevention to ongoing long-term maintenance for individuals with chronic health conditions or disease.
A clinical consultant is an expert or a professional in medical practices and has a wide knowledge of the applied branches of medical sciences and professions such as clinical psychology or clinical medicine.
Clinical Desktop or Clinical Workstation contains all areas, or components of a patient's record providing clinicians with easy access, through the internet, to essential information about their patients from a tablet, laptop or desktop computer. Clinical Desktop aggregates information from multiple sources, saving clinicians valuable time.
Clinical notes provide a concise review of a particular topic in order to enhance the education of fellows, residents and medical students. Records which relate to the physical or mental health of an individual which have been made by or on the advice of a health professional in connection with the care and treatment of that person.
A secure website that brings together patient information and results from diverse sources (both within and outside a health organization) in a uniform way.
Any clinically trained staff including physicians or registered practitioner, nurse, laboratory or radiology pathologists, or physician assistant that provides patient care.
See also Physician - Professionally qualified doctor or physician or registered practitioner who provides clinical care to patients.
Orion Health HIE's Clinical Portal provides single view capabilities for clinicians, providing simplified, real-time access to a selected patient's clinical information. Orion Health Rhapsody Integration Engine manages and streamlines message exchange between hospital applications, databases and external systems.
The process of electronic entry of physician instructions for the treatment of patients (particularly hospitalized patients) under their care. These orders are communicated over a computer network to the medical staff (nurses, therapists, pharmacists or other physicians) or to the departments (pharmacy, laboratory or radiology) responsible for fulfilling the order.
A shared summary of patient encounters across the continuum of care incorporating the individual patient's medical record in an electronic format.
A computer-based record containing health care information that meets provider needs for real-time data access and evaluation in medical care.
Electronic orders enable health professionals to electronically enter requests for a wide range of services, including laboratory tests, medical imaging exams, clinical teams or service consultations, diets, nursing orders, and other diagnostic and service orders and medications.
An electronic means of generating and sending a complete, error-free and legible prescription directly to a pharmacy from the point-of-care.
Electronic Referrals, or eReferrals replaces hand-delivered patient referral letters from a primary care practitioner to a participating specialist and/or urgent care center.
A series of Master Patient Indexes (MPIs) which link several smaller organization-level MPIs together. Master Patient Indexes reference all patients known to an area, enterprise or organization.
A summary of the information, resources and highlights from a clinical incident, occurrence or episode. Examples of documentation solutions include discharge summaries, referrals and status.
As referenced on Wikipedia "Health Level Seven (HL7), is a non-profit organization involved in the development of international healthcare informatics interoperability standards. "HL7" also refers to some of the specific standards created by the organization (e.g., HL7 v2.x, v3.0, HL7 RIM).
Is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to ensuring quality patient care. HIMSS Vision - Advancing the best use of information and management systems for the betterment of health care. HIMSS Mission - To lead change in the healthcare information and management systems field through knowledge sharing, advocacy, collaboration, innovation, and community affiliations.
Orion Health is a member of HIMSS and the Clinical Consulting team are regular presenters at conferences around the world such as HIMSS, TEPR, HIC, HINZ, E-Health, Healthcare Computing and TEHRE, and are also active participants in standards development with organizations such as HL7.
HIMSS is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
Healthcare Integration is the process of creating a robust platform that enables healthcare information to be shared across the healthcare organization.
System integration is the process by which smaller pieces of software are brought together to form a larger piece of software that was designed to solve a problem.
Integration of health applications requires information created and updated in one heath application to be seamlessly available in other applications. For example information created in a patient administration system to be available in the clinical information system as well as other departmental systems such as pathology, radiology and pharmacy.
Medical Applications Portal (MAP) rovides a single point of access to all patient information that is integrated into the portal, regardless of its source.
Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) (sometimes also called Regional Health Information Exchanges or RHIEs) is a group of healthcare stakeholders.
A clinician-centric web-based application for secure access, viewing and delivery of patient data, radiology images, lab and medical results.
Is a method of access control that enables a user to log in once and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems without being prompted to log in again.
A comprehensive and complete collection of information in a centralized source.
A web page or site that provides a single point of access to a variety of information or applications in a unified way.
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