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Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2021
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2021
2021-10-22 - 2021-10-23    
All Day
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2021 conference explores new advances and recent updated technologies. It is your high eminence that you enhance your research work in this [...]
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Petrochemistry and Chemical Engineering
Petrochemistry and Chemical Engineering
2021-10-25 - 2021-10-26    
All Day
Petro chemistry 2021 directs towards addressing main issues as well as future strategies of global energy industry. This is going to be the largest and [...]
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Cardiac Surgery and Medical Devices
Cardiac Surgery and Medical Devices
2021-10-30 - 2021-10-31    
All Day
The main focus and theme of the conference is “Reconnoitring Challenges Concerning Prediction & Prevention of Heart Diseases”. CARDIAC SURGERY 2020 strives to bring renowned [...]
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Events on 2021-10-22
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2021
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2021
22 Oct 21
Events on 2021-10-25
Petrochemistry and Chemical Engineering
Petrochemistry and Chemical Engineering
25 Oct 21
Events on 2021-10-30
Cardiac Surgery and Medical Devices
Cardiac Surgery and Medical Devices
30 Oct 21
Glossary

EHR Glossary:

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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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