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DEVICE TALKS
DEVICE TALKS
2018-10-08 - 2018-10-10    
All Day
Westin Boston Waterfront 425 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02446, United States
DEVICE TALKS BOSTON 2018: BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER! Join us Oct. 8-10 for the 7th annual DeviceTalks Boston, back in the city where it [...]
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6th Annual HealthIMPACT Midwest
6th Annual HealthIMPACT Midwest
2018-10-10    
All Day
REV1 VENTURES COLUMBUS, OH The Provider-Patient Experience Summit - Disrupting Delivery without Disrupting Care HealthIMPACT Midwest is focused on technologies impacting clinician satisfaction and performance. [...]
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3rd International Conference on Environmental Health & Preventive Medicine
15 Oct
2018-10-15 - 2018-10-16    
All Day
Conference Series Ltd invites all the participants from all over the world to attend “3rd International Conference on Environmental Health” during October 15-16, 2018 in Warsaw, Poland which includes prompt keynote [...]
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CONNECTED HEALTH CONFERENCE 2018
17 Oct
2018-10-17 - 2018-10-19    
7:00 am - 6:00 pm
CONNECTED HEALTH CONFERENCE
BALANCING TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN ELEMENT In an era when digital technologies enable individuals to track health statistics such as daily activity and vital signs, [...]
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Epigenetics Congress 2018
Epigenetics Congress 2018
2018-10-25 - 2018-10-26    
All Day
Istanbul
Conference: 5th World Congress on Epigenetics and Chromosome Date: October 25-26, 2018 Place: Istanbul, Turkey Email: epigeneticscongress@gmail.com About Conference: Epigenetics congress 2018 invites all the [...]
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Events on 2018-10-08
DEVICE TALKS
DEVICE TALKS
8 Oct 18
425 Summer Street
Events on 2018-10-10
6th Annual HealthIMPACT Midwest
6th Annual HealthIMPACT Midwest
10 Oct 18
Events on 2018-10-15
15 Oct
3rd International Conference on Environmental Health & Preventive Medicine
15 Oct 18
Events on 2018-10-17
17 Oct
CONNECTED HEALTH CONFERENCE 2018
17 Oct 18
Boston
Events on 2018-10-25
Epigenetics Congress 2018
Epigenetics Congress 2018
25 Oct 18
Istanbul
Glossary

EHR Glossary:

April 5, 2014
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  • Ambulatory care: is any medical care delivered on an outpatient basis.
  • CCHIT: Acronym for Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology.
  • Computerized Patient Record (CPR): Also known as an EMR or EHR. A patient’s past, present, and future clinical data stored in a server.
  • Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE): A system for physicians to electronically order labs, imaging and prescriptions.
  • Fee Schedule: A set maximum fee that an insurance company will pay a healthcare provider.
  • HIPAA: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, is a set of federal regulations which establishes national standards for health care information.
  • ICD-9: Internationally recognizable 3 to 5-digit code representing a medical diagnosis. Currently being replaced by the ICD-10 code.
  • National Provider Identifier (NPI): A unique number to define healthcare providers.
  • EHR- Electronic Health Records focus on the total health of the patient-going beyond standard clinical data collected in the provider’s office and inclusive of a broader view on a patient’s care. EHRs are designed to reach out beyond the health organization that originally collects and compiles the information.
  • HIT- Health Information Technology is the area of IT involving the design, development, creation, use and maintenance of information systems for the healthcare industry.
  • PACS- Picture Archive Communication System is used by radiology and diagnostic imaging organizations to electronically manage information and images.
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