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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 also CPT and WHO.

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.

IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise is is a multi-year initiative that creates the framework for passing vital health information seamlessly-from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting across the entire healthcare enterprise. See also HIMSS.

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 is a major division of HHS. See also HHS.

IMIA - International Medical Informatics Association. See also AMIA.

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

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.

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 also ANSI.


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	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 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 also CPT and WHO. 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. IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise is is a multi-year initiative that creates the framework for passing vital health information seamlessly-from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting across the entire healthcare enterprise. See also HIMSS. top 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 is a major division of HHS. See also HHS. IMIA - International Medical Informatics Association. See also AMIA. Informatics - The practical study of the structure, creation, management, storage, retrieval, dissemination and transfer of information in natural and engineered computational environments. 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. 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 also ANSI.

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