A method to reduce the volume of data using encoding that results in the data having fewer bits of information than the original dataset (either lossless or lossy) to reduce image processing, transmission times, bandwidth requirements, and storage requirements. Some compression techniques result in the loss of some information while others do not, which may or may not be clinically important.
American Telemedicine Association
A data dashboard can be used to summarize data used by applications and provide links to personal setting controls.
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
The huge amounts of data generated by healthcare transactions are too complex and voluminous to be processed and analysed by traditional methods. Data mining provides the methodology and technology to transform these mounds of data into useful information for decision making. Data mining applications can benefit all parties involved in the healthcare industry. For example, data mining can help healthcare insurers detect fraud and abuse, healthcare organizations make customer relationship management decisions, physicians identify effective treatments and best practices, and patients receive better and more affordable healthcare services.
National Centre for Biotechnology Information
An electronic system that analyses a patient's health data so that medical professionals can make sound, clinical decisions. This software assists in making diagnoses, developing a plan of care, and applying treatment interventions. Decision support system applications use data, resources, and practitioner knowledge and observation to improve the efficiency, quality, and cost of healthcare services.
EHR Intelligence
A piece of hardware or device not part of the central computer (e.g., digitizers, stethoscope, or camera) that can provide medical data input to or accept output from the computer or mobile.
American Telemedicine Association
The international standard for transferring, handling and storing medical imaging information. DICOM, consists of a set of protocols describing how images are identified, formatted, transmitted and displayed that is vendor-independent.
American Telemedicine Association
A system of care provision in which multiple specialties and departments coordinate efforts to identify, treat, and prevent further illness in patients. Disease management requires a holistic approach to healthcare intervention so that a team of providers can deliver cost-effective, efficient, and quality care. The building blocks of disease management are constantly evolving as innovations in practice, medical devices, and research continue to reshape the healthcare industry.
EHR Intelligence
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed hierarchical lookup service. It is primarily used on the Internet to translate between domain names and Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses. The DNS service consists of DNS data, name servers, and a protocol used to retrieve data from the servers. Clients of the DNS can be applications such as web browsers or mail transfer agents and even other name servers.
ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
