Health Informatics Glossary
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Jabber - See
XMPP
Java - A programming language
developed by Sun Microsystems in the 1990s to enable platform
independent network application development.
JavaScript - A computer scripting
language which enables dynamic programmatic access to computational
objects within a host environment. JavaScript is weakly typed with
first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting
object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
JavaScript was developed by Brendan Eich at Netscape under the
project name "Mocha." JavaScript is unrelated to the Java
programming language. See
Ajax,
Java
JCAHO - ("JAY-ko") See
Joint Commission
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Joint Commission - The
Joint Commission
is a United States-based non-profit organization formed in 1951 with
a mission to maintain and elevate the standards of health care
delivery through evaluation and accreditation of health care
organizations. Formerly known as the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
J2EE - Marketing name for the 1.4
release of the Java platform. After platform release version 1.6 Java
is no longer called "J2EE".
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