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GCPI - Geographic Practice Cost Index, and expense adjustment required by Medicare law to reflect local differences in practice costs. See CMS

Gigabyte - A semi-ambiguous multiple of the unit Megabyte. Depending upon the context, a gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes (IEEE and ISO digital standards) or 1,024 megabytes (memory circuits with a binary architecture). As the variance is small, and as the international electronic standards community has shown no discipline for sorting \out the binary v. digital distinction, the term "kilobyte" is ambiguously employed in dissimilar contexts as if it refers to the same quantity. See Kilobyte, Megabyte

GIS - Geographical Information System.

GNU - A recursive acronym for GNU's not UNIX, a free software operating system produced and maintained by the Free Software Foundation. See FOSS, Free Software, Linux, Open Source

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GPL - The GNU General Public License, a type of Open Source license with a theoretically inescapable mandatory redistribution clause. See FOSS, Free Software, Linux, Open Source

GPS - Global Positional System.

Grid Computing - Grid computing (or the use of a computational grid) is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time - usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data. See caBIG, Cloud Computing, SaaS

GSM - The Groupe Spécial Mobile (GSM) Association is an industry trade organization of mobile phone carriers and manufacturers. More than 80% of the cell phones in the world use the GSM standard. Domestically, AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM. See CDMA, SMS

GUI - ("goo-ee") Graphical User Interface, a method of interacting with a computer through visual elements such as icons, windows, and other images, generally using a mouse or a touchscreen. Invented at Xerox PARC. See Icon, Mouse, PARC, Touchscreen

Guideline - An agreed set of rules or steps which guide the management of a clinical condition. Also known as "Clinical Guidelines." See Algorithm, Care Pathway, 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 GCPI - Geographic Practice Cost Index, and expense adjustment required by Medicare law to reflect local differences in practice costs. See CMS Gigabyte - A semi-ambiguous multiple of the unit Megabyte. Depending upon the context, a gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes (IEEE and ISO digital standards) or 1,024 megabytes (memory circuits with a binary architecture). As the variance is small, and as the international electronic standards community has shown no discipline for sorting \out the binary v. digital distinction, the term "kilobyte" is ambiguously employed in dissimilar contexts as if it refers to the same quantity. See Kilobyte, Megabyte GIS - Geographical Information System. GNU - A recursive acronym for GNU's not UNIX, a free software operating system produced and maintained by the Free Software Foundation. See FOSS, Free Software, Linux, Open Source top GPL - The GNU General Public License, a type of Open Source license with a theoretically inescapable mandatory redistribution clause. See FOSS, Free Software, Linux, Open Source GPS - Global Positional System. Grid Computing - Grid computing (or the use of a computational grid) is applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem at the same time - usually to a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data. See caBIG, Cloud Computing, SaaS GSM - The Groupe Spécial Mobile (GSM) Association is an industry trade organization of mobile phone carriers and manufacturers. More than 80% of the cell phones in the world use the GSM standard. Domestically, AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM. See CDMA, SMS GUI - ("goo-ee") Graphical User Interface, a method of interacting with a computer through visual elements such as icons, windows, and other images, generally using a mouse or a touchscreen. Invented at Xerox PARC. See Icon, Mouse, PARC, Touchscreen Guideline - An agreed set of rules or steps which guide the management of a clinical condition. Also known as "Clinical Guidelines." See Algorithm, Care Pathway, Protocol

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