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
FACA - The
Federal
Advisory Committee Act is a U.S. Law passed in 1972 that governs
the creation and operation of advisory committees in the executive
branch of the Federal Government.
False Negative - Failing to match two
records that are a true match. For example, failing to match the
health record of "Patient 1" at "Practice A" with the health record
of "Patient 6" at "Practice B" by asserting that they are not the
same person when in fact they are. See
Disambiguate,
Specificity
False Positive - Matching as true two
records that are a false match. For example, matching the health
record of "Patient 1" at "Practice A" with the health record of
"Patient 6" at "Practice B" as if they are the same person when in
fact they are not. See
Disambiguate,
Sensitivity
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FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions.
FDA
- The Food and Drug
Administration, a major division of
HHS, is responsible for assuring the
safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs,
biological products, medical devices, the national food supply,
cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.
See
HHS
Feature - Intentional
(or not) computer system functionality. See
Bug
Fee for Service - A business model under
which patients or a third party pays physicians, hospitals or other
health care providers for each encounter or service rendered.
See
AMA,
CPT,
P4P,
PQRI
FEMA - Federal
Emergency Management Authority.
FHA
- The Federal
Health Architecture is a roadmap to a federal health information
technology environment that is interoperable with private sector health
IT systems and that supports better point-of-service care, increased
efficiency and improved overall health in the U.S. population.
See
NHIN,
ONC
FHIE
- The Federal
Health Information Exchange is a gateway that enables the secure
electronic exchange of patient medical information betwen CHCS, the
DoD's legacy health information system, and VistA, the VA's legacy
health information system.
See
CHCS,
VistA
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Firewall - A security
barrier between a private computer network and the public Internet.
Firewalls can be based on hardware, software, or both.
Five Rights of Medication -
Right patient, right medication, right dose, right time, right
route of administration.
FOSS -
Free and Open Source
Software is an inclusive term designed to be neutral when
referring to both free software and open source style software
licenses. "Free" specifically refers to the freedom to access the
source code. See
Free Software,
Open Source,
Source Code
Free Software - A type of
open source software with strong restrictions against privitization,
published under the General Public License (GPL), which is maintained
by the Free Software Foundation.
See
FOSS,
GPL,
Open Source,
Source Code
FTP - File
Transfer Protocol, used to exchange and manipulate files over a TCP/IP
network (such as the Internet).
See
SFTP
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