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EARS - Early Aberration Reporting System. See Biosurveillance, CDC

ECG - Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG) is a noninvasive transthoracic interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over time captured and externally recorded by skin electrodes. Not to be confused with an Echocardiogram. See Echocardiogram

Echocardiogram - An echocardiogram, often referred to as a cardiac ECHO or simply an ECHO, is a sonogram of the heart. It is not abbreviated as ECG, which usually refers to an electrocardiogram. Also known as a cardiac ultrasound. See Cardiac ECHO, ECG, Sonogram

ED - Emergency Department. See DEEDS

EDI - Electronic Data Interchange is computer to computer interchange of strictly formatted messages that represent documents. EDI implies a sequence of messages between two parties, either of whom may serve as originator or recipient. The formatted data representing the documents may be transmitted from originator to recipient via telecommunications or physically transported on electronic storage media.

EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation. See DRM

Effectiveness - How well a health care treatment works in practice. See AHRQ, Efficacy, HEDIS, NCQA, NQF

Efficacy - How well a health care treatment works in clinical trials. See Effectiveness

e-Health Initiative See eHI

eHealth Exchange See Healtheway

eHI - The e-Health Initiative is a neutral, multi-stakeholder organization that helps connect the dots in healthcare and technology. eHealth Initiative's mission is to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and technology. See CCBH

EHR - Electronic Health Record, a generic term for computerized records in health care. There is some confusion of EHR with the similar term Electronic Medical Records. In general, Redwood MedNet uses EHR as the more inclusive term. See CPOE, EMR, Template

EHRA - The Electronic Health Record Association is a trade association of EHR vendors sponsored by HIMSS. EHRA addresses national efforts to create interoperable EHRs in hospital and ambulatory care settings. See HIMSS

eICU - ICU with clinical staffing augmented by remote presence telehealth services. See ICU, Remote Presence

EIN - Employer Identification Number.

EIS - Entity Identification Service, part of the HSSP. See HSSP, MPI

EKCITA - East Kern County Information Technology Association, awarded an HIE Expansion Grant in 2011 by Cal eConnect. Renamed CVCAHIE in 2012. See Cal eConnect

EKG - See ECG

ELINCS - The EHR Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standard is a magnificent multiyear effort by California HealthCare Foundation to reduce optionality, and therefore to increase interoperability and utility, in HL7 messaging formats for the content of laboratory test results. Field adoption of the ELINCS format, an HL7 v.2.5.1 standard, has yet to be sufficiently robust to achieve the desired effect, therefore the original intent of standardizing and commodifying structured laboratory test result data to optimize interoperability remains an urgent informatics challenge. See CHCF, HL7

ELR - Electronic Laboratory Reporting.

Email - Short for electronic mail, a method of exchanging digital messages, generally via the Internet. See SMTP

EMAR - Electronic Medication Administration Record, sometimes written eMAR. Inpatient medication record keeping system designed to support the five rights of medication (right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, right route of administration). See CPOE, eRx

EMPI - Enterprise Master Person Index. Sometimes written as "eMPI". See MPI

EMR - Electronic Medical Record, a generic term for computerized records in health care. Conflicting definitions are associated with this term. See EHR, CPOE

EMS - Emergency Medical Services.

EMT - Emergency Medical Technician.

Encryption - The process of transforming information to make it unreadable, thereby protecting the data while it is in transport or storage. For later use the information is decrypted (i.e., returned to an unencrypted state). See Access Control, Authentication, Decryption, PKI, X.509

Enterprise Service Bus - See ESB

EPA - Environmental Protection Agency.

e-Prescribing - Electronic prescribing is a health IT solution that allows a provider to review medication history and formulary coverage, and to originate a prescription electronically. See EMAR

ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can be thought of as MRP-III, extending integrated and real-time business process coordination to non-manufacturing services within the enterprise. CRM as a component system is a typical example of the expansive ERP purview. See CRM, MRP

eRx - See e-Prescribing

Error - Generally, a synonym for mistake, with variable meanings in a wide range of settings (e.g., an error in baseball, a typographical error in a printed manuscript, computing the wrong numeric answer in mathematics, etc.). In medicine or in health informatics, when considering a hypothesis as true or false, there are two types of error: Type I (a false positive) or Type II (a false negative). See Type I Error, Type II Error

ESB - Enterprise Service Bus is a software architecture that allows design and implementation of mutually interacting software SOA applications. See SOA

ESSENCE - See Biosurveillance, CDC

Ethernet - Common name for the IEEE 802.3 network data standards that specify frame based wiring and signaling protocols combined with a common packet addressing format. Ethernet is the common LAN protocol of the Internet era. Ethernet was invented in 1973 at Xerox PARC as a "multipoint data communication system with collision detection." See IEEE, LAN, PARC

Evidence Based Medicine - The practice of medicine according to clinical guidelines developed to reflect best practices captured from analysis of the peer reviewed clinical literature See Best Practice, Guideline

Expert System - Software that seeks to answer a question. An expert system is built in a specific problem domain by creating a data base that seeks to capture and formally represent the knowledge drawn from subject matter experts (SME) in that problem domain. See Algorithm, Guideline, Inference Engine, Knowledge Base, Protocol


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	Health Informatics Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z EARS - Early Aberration Reporting System. See Biosurveillance, CDC ECG - Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG) is a noninvasive transthoracic interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over time captured and externally recorded by skin electrodes. Not to be confused with an Echocardiogram. See Echocardiogram Echocardiogram - An echocardiogram, often referred to as a cardiac ECHO or simply an ECHO, is a sonogram of the heart. It is not abbreviated as ECG, which usually refers to an electrocardiogram. Also known as a cardiac ultrasound. See Cardiac ECHO, ECG, Sonogram ED - Emergency Department. See DEEDS EDI - Electronic Data Interchange is computer to computer interchange of strictly formatted messages that represent documents. EDI implies a sequence of messages between two parties, either of whom may serve as originator or recipient. The formatted data representing the documents may be transmitted from originator to recipient via telecommunications or physically transported on electronic storage media. EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation. See DRM Effectiveness - How well a health care treatment works in practice. See AHRQ, Efficacy, HEDIS, NCQA, NQF Top of Page Efficacy - How well a health care treatment works in clinical trials. See Effectiveness e-Health Initiative See eHI eHealth Exchange See Healtheway eHI - The e-Health Initiative is a neutral, multi-stakeholder organization that helps connect the dots in healthcare and technology. eHealth Initiative's mission is to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and technology. See CCBH EHR - Electronic Health Record, a generic term for computerized records in health care. There is some confusion of EHR with the similar term Electronic Medical Records. In general, Redwood MedNet uses EHR as the more inclusive term. See CPOE, EMR, Template EHRA - The Electronic Health Record Association is a trade association of EHR vendors sponsored by HIMSS. EHRA addresses national efforts to create interoperable EHRs in hospital and ambulatory care settings. See HIMSS eICU - ICU with clinical staffing augmented by remote presence telehealth services. See ICU, Remote Presence EIN - Employer Identification Number. EIS - Entity Identification Service, part of the HSSP. See HSSP, MPI Top of Page EKCITA - East Kern County Information Technology Association, awarded an HIE Expansion Grant in 2011 by Cal eConnect. Renamed CVCAHIE in 2012. See Cal eConnect EKG - See ECG ELINCS - The EHR Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standard is a magnificent multiyear effort by California HealthCare Foundation to reduce optionality, and therefore to increase interoperability and utility, in HL7 messaging formats for the content of laboratory test results. Field adoption of the ELINCS format, an HL7 v.2.5.1 standard, has yet to be sufficiently robust to achieve the desired effect, therefore the original intent of standardizing and commodifying structured laboratory test result data to optimize interoperability remains an urgent informatics challenge. See CHCF, HL7 ELR - Electronic Laboratory Reporting. Email - Short for electronic mail, a method of exchanging digital messages, generally via the Internet. See SMTP EMAR - Electronic Medication Administration Record, sometimes written eMAR. Inpatient medication record keeping system designed to support the five rights of medication (right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, right route of administration). See CPOE, eRx EMPI - Enterprise Master Person Index. Sometimes written as "eMPI". See MPI Top of Page EMR - Electronic Medical Record, a generic term for computerized records in health care. Conflicting definitions are associated with this term. See EHR, CPOE EMS - Emergency Medical Services. EMT - Emergency Medical Technician. Encryption - The process of transforming information to make it unreadable, thereby protecting the data while it is in transport or storage. For later use the information is decrypted (i.e., returned to an unencrypted state). See Access Control, Authentication, Decryption, PKI, X.509 Enterprise Service Bus - See ESB EPA - Environmental Protection Agency. e-Prescribing - Electronic prescribing is a health IT solution that allows a provider to review medication history and formulary coverage, and to originate a prescription electronically. See EMAR ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can be thought of as MRP-III, extending integrated and real-time business process coordination to non-manufacturing services within the enterprise. CRM as a component system is a typical example of the expansive ERP purview. See CRM, MRP Top of Page eRx - See e-Prescribing Error - Generally, a synonym for mistake, with variable meanings in a wide range of settings (e.g., an error in baseball, a typographical error in a printed manuscript, computing the wrong numeric answer in mathematics, etc.). In medicine or in health informatics, when considering a hypothesis as true or false, there are two types of error: Type I (a false positive) or Type II (a false negative). See Type I Error, Type II Error ESB - Enterprise Service Bus is a software architecture that allows design and implementation of mutually interacting software SOA applications. See SOA ESSENCE - See Biosurveillance, CDC Ethernet - Common name for the IEEE 802.3 network data standards that specify frame based wiring and signaling protocols combined with a common packet addressing format. Ethernet is the common LAN protocol of the Internet era. Ethernet was invented in 1973 at Xerox PARC as a "multipoint data communication system with collision detection." See IEEE, LAN, PARC Evidence Based Medicine - The practice of medicine according to clinical guidelines developed to reflect best practices captured from analysis of the peer reviewed clinical literature See Best Practice, Guideline Top of Page Expert System - Software that seeks to answer a question. An expert system is built in a specific problem domain by creating a data base that seeks to capture and formally represent the knowledge drawn from subject matter experts (SME) in that problem domain. See Algorithm, Guideline, Inference Engine, Knowledge Base, Protocol

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