An informal term used to define a machine-to-person communication that is important, urgent and/or time sensitive.
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A detailed evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, project, product and/or transactions. |
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Routine examination for evidence of disease before signs or symptoms appear is the key to finding breast cancer in its early, treatable stages.
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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 care plan is documented evidence which clearly states how individual care needs are to be met on a daily basis.
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One of several ways of doing research whether it is social science related or even socially related. Other ways include experiments, surveys, multiple histories, and analysis of archival information.
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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.
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Provide a concise review of a particular topic in order to enhance the education of fellows, residents and medical students.
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Provides a universal, easy to use solution that delivers accurate patient information and results where and when you need it increases diagnostic accuracy and improves patient safety.
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Any PC-based workstation that provides secure access to a unified view of electronic patient information and access to clinical applications.
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Any clinically trained staff including physicians or registered practitioner, nurse, laboratory or radiology pathologists, or physician assistant that provides patient care.
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Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) |
The process of electronic entry of physician instructions for the treatment of patients (particularly hospitalized patients) under his or her 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.
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An informal term used to define a machine-to-person communication that is important, urgent and/or time sensitive.
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Electronic Health Record (EHR) |
A shared summary of patient encounters across the continuum of care incorporating the individual patient's medical record in an electronic format. Typically an EHR is accessed and updated by multiple healthcare providers to provide a longitudinal record of a patient’s medical history.
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Electronic Medical Record (EMR) |
A computer-based record containing health care information that meets provider needs for real-time data access and evaluation in medical care. This record may contain some, but not necessarily all, of the information that is in an individual's paper-based medical record. Typically, not readily accessible by other healthcare providers.
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Electronic orders enable health professionals to 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.
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Electronic Prescribing (ePrescribing) |
A prescriber's ability to electronically generate send a complete, error-free and legible prescription directly to a pharmacy from the point-of-care.
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Replaces hand-delivered patient referral letters from a primary care practitioner (PCP) to a participating specialist and/or urgent care center.
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Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) |
Are Master Patient Indexes which link several smaller organization level MPIs together. Master Patient Indexes reference all patients known to an area, enterprise or organization.
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A summary of the information, resources and highlights from an clinical incident, occurrence or episode.
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HL7 is an international community of healthcare subject matter experts and information scientists collaborating to create standards for the exchange, management and integration of electronic healthcare information.
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Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (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.
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Is the process of creating a robust platform that enables healthcare information to be shared across the healthcare organization.
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To bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole, to make up, combine, or complete, to produce a whole or a larger unit, as parts do, to unite or combine.
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The infrastructure for linking disparate systems, applications and data sources together.
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A universal integration platform is a development- and/or configuration-time analog of a universal server. The emphasis on the term: "platform" implies a middleware environment from which integration-oriented solutions are derived. Likewise, the term: "Universal" implies depth and breadth of integration capabilities that transcend disparate operating systems, protocols, APIs, Data Sources, Programming Languages, Composite Processes, Discrete Services, and Monolithic Applications. |
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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. A common approach is to interface information from one application to many other systems using HL7.
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Mapping of knowledge from one domain (the base) into another (the target). The structure-mapping engine, or SME, is a computer simulation of the analogy and similarity comparisons.
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Medical Applications Portal (MAP) |
Provides a single point of access to all patient information that is integrated into the portal, regardless of the source of information.
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Searchable directory or database for medical resources, health blogs and healthcare websites which provide access to extensive medical content, doctors, dentists, hospitals, jobs, forums and classifieds.
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An object of communication. It is something that provides information; it can also be the information itself. Therefore, its meaning is dependent upon the context in which it is used; the term may apply to both the information and its form.
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Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB), a comprehensive patient record that can be shared across institutions and geographic regions, so patients can be assured that their medical information follows them wherever they go.
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In healthcare, orders are the request or instruction by a physician for the treatment of a patient under his/her care, given to another healthcare provider fulfilling the order for treatment.
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A patient is any person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician or other medical professional, although one who is visiting a physician for a routine check-up may also be viewed as a patient.
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All recorded information regarding a patient’s clinical history, examination findings, diagnosis, treatment, and consent. Also includes billing records associated with and documenting patient care.
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Any clinically trained staff including physicians or registered practitioner, nurse, laboratory or radiology pathologists, or physician assistant that provides patient care.
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Is a medical Portal with single view capabilities for physicians, providing simplified, real-time access to selected patient's clinical information, wherever it may reside.
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A provider index allows you to search for physicians, dentists, hospital or health care facility within a network.
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The process where a primary care physician directs a patient to seek and obtain covered services from other healthcare professionals.
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Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) |
Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) - sometimes also called regional health information exchanges or RHIEs - is a group of healthcare stakeholders including hospitals, group practices, payors, employers and public health agencies which meaningfully cooperate to build an I.T. infrastructure that supports the sharing of clinical and claims-related data with benefits including a reduction in the cost of, and an improvement in quality of care.
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A clinician-centric web-based application for secure access, viewing and delivery of patient data, radiology images, lab and medical results.
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Rural RHIO’s require the various clinical provider groups within a geographic region to come together in the name of improved care and shared efficiencies. Rural RHIOs lead to the delivery of more comprehensive care to rural patients and leverage the Internet and PC-based interfaces, to control treatment costs and inherent geographic and infrastructure limitations.
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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.
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Is a process of prioritizing patients based on the severity of their condition. This facilitates the ability to treat as many patients as possible when resources are insufficient for all to be treated immediately.
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A comprehensive and complete collection of information into a centralized source.
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A web page or site that provides a single point of access to variety of information or applications in a unified way. Web portals can be personalized to the users needs.
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Refers to software or services that are available over the World Wide Web (Internet) and use a Web browser to access them.
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Is an authoritative report or guide that often addresses problems and how to solve them. White papers are used to educate readers and help people make decisions. They are used in politics and business. They can also be a government report outlining policy.
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