Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) In the field of electronic health records (EHR), Cross Enterprise Document Sharing is a system of standards for cataloging and sharing patient records across health institutions. It provides a registry for querying which patient records are in Continue reading Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)
Radiology Information System (RIS) A radiology information system is a computerized database used by radiology departments to store, manipulate, and distribute patient radiological data and imagery. The system generally consists of patient tracking and scheduling, result reporting and image tracking capabilities. RIS Continue reading Radiology Information System (RIS)
Master Patient Index (MPI) A master patient index MPI is an electronic medical database that is used across a healthcare organization to maintain consistent, accurate and current demographic and essential medical data on the patients seen and managed within its various departments. Continue reading Master Patient Index (MPI)
Health Level Seven International (HL7) Health Level-7 or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is Continue reading Health Level Seven International (HL7)
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was enacted by the United States Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996. It has been known as the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act or Continue reading Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Health Information Organization (HIO) Health information organizations (HIO) are U.S. government-led non-profit health organizations that provide information about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 as it pertains to electronic health records (EHRs) development for incentive payments. These organizations Continue reading Health Information Organization (HIO)
Health Information Technology Health information technology (HIT) is “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”. Technology Continue reading Health Information Technology (HIT)
Health Apps Health apps are application programs that offer health-related services for smartphones and tablet PCs. As the name goes smart phones are becoming way to smart anybody could have ever imagined. From browsing to playing games everything is just a click Continue reading Health Apps
Food and Drug Administration The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments. It is responsible for protecting and Continue reading Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Expert System An expert system, in artificial intelligence, is a computer system that emulates the decision-making ability of a human expert. Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning about knowledge, represented primarily as if–then rules rather than through conventional procedural code. The Continue reading Expert System