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Diabetes, Obesity and Its Complications
Diabetes, Obesity and Its Complications
2021-09-02 - 2021-09-03    
All Day
Diabetes Congress 2021 aims to provide a platform to share knowledge, expertise along with unparalleled networking opportunities between a large number of medical and industrial [...]
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Heart Ailments
Heart Ailments
2021-09-07 - 2021-09-08    
All Day
International conference and Expo on Heart Ailments Webinar held at Zoom or WebEx online on September 07-08, 2021. The conference is concentrated on the theme [...]
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Computer Graphics & Animation 2021
Computer Graphics & Animation 2021
2021-09-24 - 2021-09-25    
All Day
Computer graphics is branch of Computer Science and Technology It’s a graphical pattern of an image or objects which created by using specific software and [...]
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Events on 2021-09-02
Diabetes, Obesity and Its Complications
Diabetes, Obesity and Its Complications
2 Sep 21
Events on 2021-09-07
Heart Ailments
Heart Ailments
7 Sep 21
Events on 2021-09-24
Computer Graphics & Animation 2021
Computer Graphics & Animation 2021
24 Sep 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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