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The science of developing and using computer databases and
algorithms to hasten and improve biological—and pharmaceutical—research |
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A list that describes the specifications and locations of all data
contained in a system |
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Health informatics, health care informatics or medical informatics is
the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care. It deals with
the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage,
retrieval, and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics tools
include not only computers but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies,and information and communication systems. It is applied to the areas of nursing,
clinical care, dentistry, pharmacy, public health and (bio) medical research. |
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(Health Information Management): The practice of maintenance and care of health
records by traditional and electronic means in hospitals, physician's office clinics, health
departments, health insurance companies, and other facilities that provide health care or maintenance of health records. |
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(Health Information Technology): The application of information processing
involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval,
sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication
and decision making |
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(Health Management Information Systems): The management best practices to
provide effective use of Health Information Technology and ensure Health Information
Management |
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(Hypertext Markup Language): The basic programming language for sites on the
World Wide Web. This “skeleton” of code surrounds blocks of text and/or images and
contains all the necessary commands and display instructions. A Web browser program
is needed to interpret HTML and depict it as a graphical display on a computer screen. |
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(International Classification of Disease- 9th Revision): International disease
classification system developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) that provides
a detailed description of known diseases and injuries. The classification system is used
worldwide for morbidity and mortality statistics, reimbursement systems and automated
decision support in medicine |
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(International Classification of Disease- 10th Revision): ICD-10 was
endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in May 1990 and came into use in
WHO Member States as from 1994. In the United States, the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services is preparing for the U.S. health care industry's change from ICD-9 to
ICD-10 for medical diagnosis and inpatient procedure coding. ICD-10 codes must be
used on all HIPAA transactions, including outpatient claims with dates of service, and
inpatient claims with dates of discharge on and after October 1, 2013. |
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| Informatics or Information Science |
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The study of information. It is often, though not
exclusively, studied as a branch of Computer Science and Information Technology (IT)
and is related to database, ontology and software engineering. Informatics is primarily
concerned with the structure, creation, management, storage, retrieval, dissemination
and transfer of information. Informatics also includes studying the application of
information in organizations, on its usage and the interaction between people,
organizations and information systems |
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The process of redefining clinical data based on predefined rules. The
values are redefined based on a specific formula or technique |
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| a general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet. Languages based on XML (for example, Geography Markup Language (GML), Physical Markup Language (PML) are defined in a formal way, allowing programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form. XML is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. XML’s design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. It is a textual data format, with strong support via Unicode for the languages of the world. Although XML’s design focuses on documents, it is widely used for the representation of arbitrary data structures, for example in web services. It is common for XML to be used in interchanging data over the Internet |
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A wireless networking standard ratified by the IEEE in late 1999 and
supported by the largest wireless local area network (WLAN) vendors. Also known as
Wi-Fi. |
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A measure of how much information can be transmitted at once through a
communication medium, such as a telephone line, fiber-optic cable, or radio frequenc |
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A medium that can carry multiple signals, or channels of information, at the
same time without interference. Broadband Internet connections enable high-resolution
videoconferencing and other applications that require rapid, synchronous exchange of
data. |
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A software program that interprets documents written in HTML, the primary
programming language of the Web. A browser such as Safari, Firefox, or Microsoft
Explorer is required to experience the photos, video, and sound elements on a Web
page and assists in quick, easy travel around the Web |
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C is an established programming language found in many operating systems,
including UNIX. C++, a daughter program based on objects, is quickly becoming a
favored programming language as object-oriented technology gains popularity. Also see
Java. |
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| In a computer network, a workstation that retrieves information from a server. |
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A network system in which a dedicated computer (server) handles some
data storage and processing tasks for applications used on personal computers or
workstations (clients), which tap the server’s shared files and processing power as
needed. Also see distributed computing |
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A database acting as an information storage facility. Although often
used synonymously with data warehouse, a repository does not have the analysis or
querying capabilities of a warehouse |
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A large database that stores information like a data repository but
goes a step further, allowing users to access data to perform research-oriented
analysis. |
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An aggregation of records or other data that is updateable. Databases are
used to manage and archive large amounts of information. Also see relational database. |
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A computer that stores data centrally for network users. It often uses
client/server software to distribute the processing of data among itself and other
workstations on the network. |
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A computing system in which computational and storage
tasks are distributed among multiple computers rather than being performed exclusively
by a central computer. Often used to overcome the limitations of a single computer or to
exploit the unused computing power of a group of computers. Client/server systems are
one type of distributed computing. |
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Probably the most commonly used standard for local area network (LAN)
architecture. It supports data transfer rates of up to 10 megabits per second, although
newer systems, called Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, support transfer rates of 100
Mbps and 1 gigabit (1,000 megabits) per second, respectively |
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An intranet that allows specified levels of access to authorized, external
users. |
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In a client/server system, a client that performs most of the necessary data
processing itself, rather than relying on the server |
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A security device situated between a private network and outside networks
like the Internet. The firewall screens all information that attempts to enter the network |
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