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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, NCQA, NQF

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

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e-Health Initiative See eHI

eHI - The e-Health Initiative and its sister organization the Foundation for eHealth Initiative, are independent, affiliated non-profit organizations whose missions are the same: to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information 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 includsive term. See EMR, CPOE

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

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

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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. 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

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

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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

ESB - Enterprise Service Bus.

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, NCQA, NQF Efficacy - How well a health care treatment works in clinical trials. See Effectiveness top e-Health Initiative See eHI eHI - The e-Health Initiative and its sister organization the Foundation for eHealth Initiative, are independent, affiliated non-profit organizations whose missions are the same: to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information 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 includsive term. See EMR, CPOE 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 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 top 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. 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 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 top 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 ESB - Enterprise Service Bus. 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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