- Data:
- Definition: Raw facts without meaning by themselves.
- Electronic Medical Record (EMR):
- Definition: An online record of treatment, typically limited to a single healthcare episode, such as an emergency room visit or a hospital stay.
- Knowledge Work:
- Definition: The process that generates information and knowledge as a product.
- Health Information Exchange (HIE):
- Definition: The process of electronically transmitting or sharing healthcare information, or the organization that manages this process.
- Information System:
- Definition: The combination of people, data, actions, and components used to create information for a user or organization.
- Knowledge:
- Definition: Processed information that places relationships in context.
- Firewall:
- Definition: A tool used to protect networks by examining incoming and outgoing information.
- Computer Science:
- Definition: A foundational science for informatics that looks at the theory underlying information and computation and their implementation in computer systems.
- Wisdom:
- Definition: Knowledge applied in a practical manner.
- Cognitive Science:
- Definition: A foundational science for informatics that explores how the human mind works.
- Electronic Health Record (EHR):
- Definition: A longitudinal record of an individual’s health and treatment interventions.
- National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII):
- Definition: An initiative aimed at improving healthcare quality, efficiency, and effectiveness by making healthcare information available through technology, standards, interoperability, governance, and cooperation.
- Cognitive Informatics:
- Definition: An emerging field that focuses on how information is processed in both the human mind and computers.
- Information Science:
- Definition: A foundational science for informatics that looks at the application and use of information and knowledge in organizations and the interaction between people, organizations, and information systems.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI):
- Definition: A field or application that attempts to replicate human thought processes and intelligence.
- Clinical Decision Support (CDS):
- Definition: A computer-based program designed to assist clinicians in making clinical decisions by filtering or integrating vast amounts of information and providing suggestions for clinical intervention.
- Cloud Computing:
- Definition: Web browser-based access to data, software, and hardware.
- Datamining:
- Definition: Using software to sort through data to discover patterns and establish relationships.
- Project Manager:
- Definition: A person who plans and enacts an event or project.
- Telehealth:
- Definition: The use of technology (telephone, videophone, computer, etc.) to deliver health-related information to patients or connect them with healthcare providers.
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