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 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
Electronic Health Record (EHR) An electronic health record (EHR) or electronic medical record (EMR), is an official health record for an individual that is shared among multiple facilities and agencies. Digitized health information systems are expected to improve efficiency and quality Continue reading Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Blue Button Initiative The Blue Button initiative is a national program that allows patients to access and download personal health information into a simple text file or PDF that can be separated by data class or date range. Through Blue Continue reading Blue Button