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MAC - Media Access Control, a unique address identifier assigned to network devices.

Mark See Symbol

Master Person Index See MPI

Meaningful Use - A term introduced by the 2009 HITECH legislation, which appropriated incentive funds for CMS to distribute for the "adoption and meaningful use of certified EHR technology." In response, CMS issued guidance "for the definition of meaningful use to be consistent with applicable provisions of Medicare and Medicaid law while continually advancing the contributions certified EHR technology can make to improving health care quality, efficiency, and patient safety." See ARRA, CMS, EHR, HITECH

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Medical Records Institute - The Medical Records Institute sponsored the annual TEPR (Towards Electronic Patient Records) conferences for 25 years. The final conference was held in Palm Springs in February 2009. Later that month the leadership of the MRI launched the mHealth Initiative, focused on the emergence of mobile healthcare devices.

Megabyte - A semi-ambiguous multiple of the unit byte. Depending upon the context, a megabyte is 1,000 kilobytes (IEEE and ISO digital standards) or 1,024 kilobytes (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 terms, they are ambiguously interchanged. See Byte, Gigbyte, Kilobyte

Mendocino HRE - Mendocino Health Records Exchange was the transitional name of a pair of electronic health data demonstration projects in Mendocino County, California: [1] the Connecting for Health Record Locator Service, active from June 2005 to April 2006; and [2] the Connecting for Health NHIN Architecture Prototype, active from November 2005 to January 2007. In both projects health data interoperability solutions developed by the Mendocino SHARE project were featured in nationwide demonstrations. The community successor to the Mendocino HRE effort is Redwood MedNet. See Connecting for Health, NHIN, RHIC, Redwood MedNet

Mendocino SHARE - The Mendocino SHARE Project was active during 2003 - 2006 in Mendocino County, California. Initially conceived as a community wide health data exchange service, the original partnership broke up in 2005 when the federal grant funds were repurposed by a controlling faction of project partners. The remaining funds were spent on internal technology projects at a handful of sites. No further funding was sought, and the project was closed when the initial funds were gone. See Mendocino HRE, RHIC, Redwood MedNet

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MHS - Military Health System. See CHCS.

MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.

MLLP - Minimal Lower Layer Protocol.

MMA - Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003

Modem - Short for "Modulator-Demodulator", a device for converting digital signals into analog tones for transmission over analog phone lines. See POTS

Model - A model is anything used in any way to represent anything else. Some models are physical objects, such as a toy model. A conceptual model may be drawn on paper, described in words or symbols, or imagined in the mind. See Algorithm, Concept, Schema, Symbol

Mouse - In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that translates two-dimensional motion into computer instructions. Plural of "mouse" is "mouse devices". See GUI, PARC

MPFS - Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. See CMS, RVU

MPI - A Master Person Index is a longitudinal index linking individual indentities across multiple separate sites, such as linking health care data for the same patient at separate health care facilities. See Disambiguate, EIS, EMPI, RLS

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MRP - Material requirements planning (MRP) is a production planning and inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes. MRP-I arose in the 1960s out of the Toyota Manufacturing Program. In the 1980s this evolved into MRP-II with the addition of master schedule and capacity planning components. In the 1990s MRP-II evolved further into ERP. See CRM, ERP

MSH - The Message Header segment of an HL7 message See HL7

MUA - A Medically Underserved Area is a designation created and maintained by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). See HHS, HPSA, HRSA

MVX - An external HL7 code set maintained by CDC, with two or three letter abbreviations to designate manufacturers of vaccine products. See CDC, CVX, HL7, QDP, VXU


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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 MAC - Media Access Control, a unique address identifier assigned to network devices. Mark See Symbol Master Person Index See MPI Meaningful Use - A term introduced by the 2009 HITECH legislation, which appropriated incentive funds for CMS to distribute for the "adoption and meaningful use of certified EHR technology." In response, CMS issued guidance "for the definition of meaningful use to be consistent with applicable provisions of Medicare and Medicaid law while continually advancing the contributions certified EHR technology can make to improving health care quality, efficiency, and patient safety." See ARRA, CMS, EHR, HITECH top Medical Records Institute - The Medical Records Institute sponsored the annual TEPR (Towards Electronic Patient Records) conferences for 25 years. The final conference was held in Palm Springs in February 2009. Later that month the leadership of the MRI launched the mHealth Initiative, focused on the emergence of mobile healthcare devices. Megabyte - A semi-ambiguous multiple of the unit byte. Depending upon the context, a megabyte is 1,000 kilobytes (IEEE and ISO digital standards) or 1,024 kilobytes (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 terms, they are ambiguously interchanged. See Byte, Gigbyte, Kilobyte Mendocino HRE - Mendocino Health Records Exchange was the transitional name of a pair of electronic health data demonstration projects in Mendocino County, California: [1] the Connecting for Health Record Locator Service, active from June 2005 to April 2006; and [2] the Connecting for Health NHIN Architecture Prototype, active from November 2005 to January 2007. In both projects health data interoperability solutions developed by the Mendocino SHARE project were featured in nationwide demonstrations. The community successor to the Mendocino HRE effort is Redwood MedNet. See Connecting for Health, NHIN, RHIC, Redwood MedNet Mendocino SHARE - The Mendocino SHARE Project was active during 2003 - 2006 in Mendocino County, California. Initially conceived as a community wide health data exchange service, the original partnership broke up in 2005 when the federal grant funds were repurposed by a controlling faction of project partners. The remaining funds were spent on internal technology projects at a handful of sites. No further funding was sought, and the project was closed when the initial funds were gone. See Mendocino HRE, RHIC, Redwood MedNet top MHS - Military Health System. See CHCS. MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. MLLP - Minimal Lower Layer Protocol. MMA - Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 Modem - Short for "Modulator-Demodulator", a device for converting digital signals into analog tones for transmission over analog phone lines. See POTS Model - A model is anything used in any way to represent anything else. Some models are physical objects, such as a toy model. A conceptual model may be drawn on paper, described in words or symbols, or imagined in the mind. See Algorithm, Concept, Schema, Symbol Mouse - In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that translates two-dimensional motion into computer instructions. Plural of "mouse" is "mouse devices". See GUI, PARC MPFS - Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. See CMS, RVU MPI - A Master Person Index is a longitudinal index linking individual indentities across multiple separate sites, such as linking health care data for the same patient at separate health care facilities. See Disambiguate, EIS, EMPI, RLS top MRP - Material requirements planning (MRP) is a production planning and inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes. MRP-I arose in the 1960s out of the Toyota Manufacturing Program. In the 1980s this evolved into MRP-II with the addition of master schedule and capacity planning components. In the 1990s MRP-II evolved further into ERP. See CRM, ERP MSH - The Message Header segment of an HL7 message See HL7 MUA - A Medically Underserved Area is a designation created and maintained by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). See HHS, HPSA, HRSA MVX - An external HL7 code set maintained by CDC, with two or three letter abbreviations to designate manufacturers of vaccine products. See CDC, CVX, HL7, QDP, VXU

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