Medical informatics

Analyze is a powerful software package developed by the Biomedical Imaging Resource (BIR) at Mayo Clinic for multi-dimensional display, processing, and measurement of multi-modality biomedical images. It is a commercial program and is used for medical tomographic scans from magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography and positron emission tomography. ...more on Wikipedia about "Analyze"

The Arden Syntax is a grammar for describing medical conditions and recommendations, used in Medical algorithms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arden Syntax"

Biomedical informatics is a discipline related to Bioinformatics and has its roots in medical informatics or healthcare informatics. It studies the use of information technology and advanced research computing in the practice of biomedical sciences and medicine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biomedical informatics"

C-Tools 2.0 is an innovative Personal Digital Assistant software package that has been developed to help doctors and their staff prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. It is currently available at The C-Tools Web site . It is being distributed by the American Cancer Society and was funded by their Futuring and Innovations Program.

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A cancer registry is a systematic collection of data about cancer and tumor diseases. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cancer Registry"

Clinical (or Diagnostic) Decision Support Systems (CDSS) are interactive computer programs, which directly assist physicians and other health professionals with decision making tasks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clinical decision support system"

Clinical Informatics is a sub-field of medical informatics. It focuses on computer applications that address medical data (collection, analysis, representation). Clinical informatics is a combination of information science, computer science, and clinical science designed to assist in the management and processing of data, information and knowledge to support the practice and delivery of clinical care (Shortliffe and Perreault, Medical Informatics: Computing applications in health care and biomedicine). ...more on Wikipedia about "Clinical informatics" This text is made for www.shortopedia.com

A Clinical Terminology Server is a Terminology Server, which contains and provides access to clinical terminology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clinical Terminology Server"

Continuity of Care Record, "CCR" - is a standard specification developed jointly by ASTM, the Massachusetts Medical Society ( MMS ), the Health Information Management and Systems Society ( HIMSS), the American Academy of Family Physicians ( AAFP), the American Academy of Pediatrics ( AAP ), along with multiple healthcare IT vendors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Continuity of Care Record"

Disease management is the concept of reducing healthcare costs and improving quality of life for individuals with chronic disease conditions by preventing or minimizing the effects of a disease through integrative care. ...more on Wikipedia about "Disease management (health)"

An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a medical record or any other information relating to the past, present or future physical and mental health, or condition of a patient which resides in computers which capture, transmit, receive, store, retrieve, link, and manipulate multimedia data for the primary purpose of providing health care and health-related services. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronic Health Record"

An electronic medical record (EMR) is a computer-based patient medical record. An EMR facilitates ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronic medical record"

eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996. It is web-based and consists of clinical overviews of diagnostic or symptomatic entities by experts in the field. Continuing medical education credits may be extended to those who complete questionnaires relating to articles. ...more on Wikipedia about "EMedicine"

Empire Software is a manufacturer and retailer of Tablet PC based electronic medical records (EMR) software programmes. Its 'Nucleus' product is an example of software running on Tablet PCs intended to cater for hospitals, clinics, and private physician practices. ...more on Wikipedia about "Empire Software"

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Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a medical movement based upon the application of the scientific method to medical practice, recognizing that many long-established medical traditions are not yet subjected to adequate scientific scrutiny. According to the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine , "Evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." ...more on Wikipedia about "Evidence-based medicine"

The GALEN Common Reference Model is the model of medical concepts (or clinical terminology) being built in GRAIL. This model forms the underlying structural foundation for the services provided by a GALEN Terminology Server. ...more on Wikipedia about "GALEN Common Reference Model"

The General Data Format for Biomedical Signals is a scientific and medical data file format. It was designed to address deficiencies in formats such as EDF. ...more on Wikipedia about "General Data Format for Biomedical Signals"

A medical guideline (also called a clinical guideline, clinical protocol or clinical practice guideline) is a document with the aim of guiding decisions and criteria in specific areas of healthcare, as defined by an authoritative examination of current evidence ( evidence-based medicine). Guidelines usually include summarized consensus statements, but unlike the latter, they also address practical issues. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guideline (medical)"

Guideline Execution Engine is computer program which can interpret a clinical guideline represented in a computerized format and perform actions towards the user of a electronic medical record ...more on Wikipedia about "Guideline execution engine"

Guideline Interchange Format (GLIF) is computer representation format for clinical guidelines ...more on Wikipedia about "Guideline Interchange Format"

Health Informatics or sometimes Medical Informatics is the intersection of information science, medicine and health care. It deals with the resources, devices and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information in health and biomedicine. Health informatics tools include not only computers but also clinical guidelines, formal medical terminologies, and information and communication systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Health informatics"

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What is Health Level 7 (HL7)? ...more on Wikipedia about "Health Level 7"

==Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)== ...more on Wikipedia about "Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society"

Workflow in healthcare is a term for expressing in a computerized format processes which represent the flow of task in particular healthcare procedures. ...more on Wikipedia about "Healthcare workflow"

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