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ICD - The International Classification of Diseases, published by the World Health Organization, provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ICD codes are widely used in electronic health data. See CPT, WHO

Icon - See Computer Icon, GUI, PARC

ICU - Intensive Care Unit.

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IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is an international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. It has 360,000 members in 175 countries. IEEE (pronounced "eye-triple-e") develops technology standards for a wide range of industries, including: power and energy, biomedical and healthcare, Information Technology (IT), telecommunications, transportation, nanotechnology, and more. Two notable IEEE standards are the 802.3 Ethernet standard and the 802.11 Wireless Networking standard.

IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force. See RFC

IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise is is a multi-year initiative to develop a framework for passing health information seamlessly-from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting across the entire healthcare enterprise. See CONNECT, HIMSS, NHIN Direct/a>, XDS

IHS - Indian Health Service is a federal agency chartered to improve the mental, physical, social, and spiritual health of approximately 1.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who are members of federally recognized Tribes and Villages. The IHS operates 33 hospitals, 59 health centers, 50 health stations, and 34 urban health projects. The IHS is a major operating division of HHS. See HHS, RPMS

IIHI - Individually Identifiable Health Information. See PHI

IIS - Immunization Information System, a population-based computerized information system that gathers and stores patient vaccination data within a geographic area, providing vaccine inventory management, forecasting, reminders/recalls and reports.

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IM - Instant Messaging. See XMPP

IMIA - International Medical Informatics Association. See AMIA

Indian Health Service See IHS

Inference Engine - A computer program designed to seek answers from a knowledge base. See Business Rules Engine, Expert System, Knowledge Base

InfoLinks - A PHIN Community of Practice (COP) focused on the intersection of Public Health reporting and Health Infoirmation Exchange. An outgrowth of the 2005 RWJF Information Links study, which engaged a cohort of two dozen local health departments on the same topic. See COP, PHIN, RWJF

Informatics - The practical study of the structure, creation, management, storage, retrieval, dissemination and transfer of information in natural and engineered computational environments.

Information Links See InfoLinks

Intellectual Property - In law, Intellectual Property (IP) refers to types of legal monopolies over commercial and artistic creations of the mind. Intellectual property owners are granted specific exclusive rights to the ideas. Common intellectual property types are copyrights, trademarks and patents. See cc, DRM

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Internet Protocol - The Internet Protocol (IP) is the Internet layer in TCP/IP, the protocol stack that enables data packets to be routed on the Internet. See Protocol, TCP/IP

Internet - The global system of interconnected computer networks using TCP/IP to connect billions of users worldwide. See IETF, SMTP, TCP/IP, W3C, WWW

IOM - The Institute of Medicine, an operating division of the National Academies, convenes subject matter experts to serve on volunteer committees to provide the nation with authoritative, objective, and scientifically balanced answers to difficult questions of national importance.

IP See [1] Intellectual Property, [2] Internet Protocol

IPPE - Initial Preventive Physical Examination, a reimbursible patient encounter defined by CMS. See CMS, PPPS

IPSEC - Internet Protocol Security.

ISO - The International Organization for Standardization is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, with a central office in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system and publishes the finished standards. The ISO is a non-government organization. The American member of ISO is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). See ANSI

ISP - Internet Service Provider.


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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 i2b2 - Informatics for Integrating Biology & the Bedside ICD - The International Classification of Diseases, published by the World Health Organization, provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ICD codes are widely used in electronic health data. See CPT, WHO Icon - See Computer Icon, GUI, PARC ICU - Intensive Care Unit. top IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is an international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. It has 360,000 members in 175 countries. IEEE (pronounced "eye-triple-e") develops technology standards for a wide range of industries, including: power and energy, biomedical and healthcare, Information Technology (IT), telecommunications, transportation, nanotechnology, and more. Two notable IEEE standards are the 802.3 Ethernet standard and the 802.11 Wireless Networking standard. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force. See RFC IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise is is a multi-year initiative to develop a framework for passing health information seamlessly-from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting across the entire healthcare enterprise. See CONNECT, HIMSS, NHIN Direct/a>, XDS IHS - Indian Health Service is a federal agency chartered to improve the mental, physical, social, and spiritual health of approximately 1.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who are members of federally recognized Tribes and Villages. The IHS operates 33 hospitals, 59 health centers, 50 health stations, and 34 urban health projects. The IHS is a major operating division of HHS. See HHS, RPMS IIHI - Individually Identifiable Health Information. See PHI IIS - Immunization Information System, a population-based computerized information system that gathers and stores patient vaccination data within a geographic area, providing vaccine inventory management, forecasting, reminders/recalls and reports. top IM - Instant Messaging. See XMPP IMIA - International Medical Informatics Association. See AMIA Indian Health Service See IHS Inference Engine - A computer program designed to seek answers from a knowledge base. See Business Rules Engine, Expert System, Knowledge Base InfoLinks - A PHIN Community of Practice (COP) focused on the intersection of Public Health reporting and Health Infoirmation Exchange. An outgrowth of the 2005 RWJF Information Links study, which engaged a cohort of two dozen local health departments on the same topic. See COP, PHIN, RWJF Informatics - The practical study of the structure, creation, management, storage, retrieval, dissemination and transfer of information in natural and engineered computational environments. Information Links See InfoLinks Intellectual Property - In law, Intellectual Property (IP) refers to types of legal monopolies over commercial and artistic creations of the mind. Intellectual property owners are granted specific exclusive rights to the ideas. Common intellectual property types are copyrights, trademarks and patents. See cc, DRM top Internet Protocol - The Internet Protocol (IP) is the Internet layer in TCP/IP, the protocol stack that enables data packets to be routed on the Internet. See Protocol, TCP/IP Internet - The global system of interconnected computer networks using TCP/IP to connect billions of users worldwide. See IETF, SMTP, TCP/IP, W3C, WWW IOM - The Institute of Medicine, an operating division of the National Academies, convenes subject matter experts to serve on volunteer committees to provide the nation with authoritative, objective, and scientifically balanced answers to difficult questions of national importance. IP See [1] Intellectual Property, [2] Internet Protocol IPPE - Initial Preventive Physical Examination, a reimbursible patient encounter defined by CMS. See CMS, PPPS IPSEC - Internet Protocol Security. ISO - The International Organization for Standardization is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, with a central office in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system and publishes the finished standards. The ISO is a non-government organization. The American member of ISO is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). See ANSI ISP - Internet Service Provider.

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