Health informatics is the science that underlies the academic investigation and practical application of computing and communications technology to healthcare, health education and biomedical research. Tools and techniques developed from health informatics research have become and will remain integral components of the best strategies in biomedical research and the best practices in healthcare delivery and public health management.
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Exchange of electronic information between providers and across platforms that is secure and safeguards patient privacy. Health information Exchange is closely aligned with interoperability so that information can flow back and forth between doctors, patients, and health networks.
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Health information technology (HIT) encompasses a wide range of products and services-including software, hardware and infrastructure-designed to collect, store and exchange patient data throughout the clinical practice of medicine.
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The extent to which patients correctly follow medical advice. Most commonly refers to correctly taking prescription medicine but extends to uses of medical applications as well.
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Consumers include the total population that access healthcare services.
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Includes all payers of healthcare services: the Government; the medical insurance industry; and out-of-pocket payments made by consumers (both insured as a co-payment and uninsured as a fee-for-service type transaction).
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Producers are considered to be the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors.
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Hierarchical storage management (HSM) is a data storage software tool used for the automatic migration of files to secondary storage. The HSM technique is designed to automate the migration and retrieval of data between expensive storage media (such as hard disk drives) and low-cost media.
An assessment tool used by healthcare professionals to obtain information regarding any pertinent medical anomalies leading up to the present chief complaint. Past medical histories are important in making safe clinical diagnoses and determining a plan of care, especially in older adults with coexisting illnesses.
Some of the assessment criteria include: when the problem started, what makes it better or worse, what it feels like, how bad it feels on a scale of 1 to 10, if the issue has occurred before.
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An at-home, virtual caretaking system in which a computerized health assessment device transmits data to a remotely located physician or other medical professional. The system allows patients to live independently at home without having to bear the cost of live-in medical care. Home monitoring is ideal for older adults with chronic diseases such as diabetes, congestive heart failure, and hypertension who are too healthy to stay in the hospital but too sick to live alone.
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Term that refers to the collection of integrated data software and services used by healthcare organizations to digitize workflow and information storage. Together, these systems electronically manage all facets of healthcare facility functions, including medical and administrative operations.
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Hosting (or "Web hosting") is a service provided by a vendor that offers a physical location for the storage of webpages and files. Hosting services are most often used for websites, and can also be used for files, images, source code, and similar content. For website hosting, there are three main types of hosting available: 1) shared web hosting; 2) dedicated web hosting; and 3) virtual private server hosting.
Location from which specialty or consultative services originate.
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