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. See
CDR
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.
See
eICU,
NICU
IDN - Integrated Delivery Network.
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IEEE - [ EYE - triple - ee ]
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 develops technology standards
for a wide range of industries, including: power and energy, biomedical
and healthcare, information technology, telecommunications,
transportation, nanotechnology, and more. Two notable IEEE standards
are the 802.3 Ethernet standard and the 802.11 Wireless Networking
standard. See
Ethernet,
Wi-Fi
IEPD -
Information Exchange
Package Documentation See
NIEM
IETF - The mission of the
Internet Engineering Task Force is
to make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant
technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and
manage the Internet. See
RFC
IFR - Interim Final Rule. See
NPRM
IHE -
Integrating the Healthcare
Enterprise is is an 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,
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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ILI - Influenza-like illness
See Distribute
ILInet - 3,000 health care providers
in all 50 states reporting specific data elements on ILI once a
week. See
CDC
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 former PHIN Community of
Practice (COP) focused on the intersection of Public Health reporting
and health information exchange. InfoLinks was 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
Inpatient - A patient receiving care while
admitted to a hospital for an indeterminate time, generally staying
overnight for one or more evenings. See
Acute Care,
Patient,
Outpatient
Instructions - Messages or signals that,
upon receipt by a device, result in the performance a specific act or
series of acts. See
Message,
Signal
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), defined in RFC 791,
is the Internet layer in TCP/IP, the protocol stack that enables data
packets to be routed on the Internet. See
Protocol,
RFC,
TCP/IP
Internet - The global system of
interconnected computer networks using TCP/IP to connect billions
of users worldwide. See
DNS,
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
IPA Independent Practice Association.
IPPE - Initial Preventive Physical
Examination, a reimbursible patient encounter defined by CMS.
See CMS,
PPPS
IPsec - Internet Protocol Security.
ISDS - The
International Society for
Disease Surveillance (ISDS) is dedicated to the improvement
of population health by advancing the field of disease surveillance.
The Society convenes an annual conference on surveillance methods
and applications, maintains the syndromic.org website, hosts several
volunteer committees, and directs the Distribute surveillance
project. See
Biosurveillance,
CDC,
CDPH,
Distribute,
WHO
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,
SDO
ISP - Internet
Service Provider.
IT - Information Technology.
See
HIT
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