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
RBAC - Role Based
Access Control.
REC - Regional Extension Center. A
territorial service business established to assist with the local
expenditure of the appropriations in the HITECH act intended to
incentivize the adoption of EHRs. See
ARRA,
CalHIPSO,
EHR,
HITECH,
ONC
Recall - See
Specificity
Recursion - See
Recursion
Reference Implementation - In software
development the reference implementation is the standard baseline
starting point from which all other implementations begin,
including customized and next generation versions.
Re-identified Data - See
Aggregated Data,
De-identified Data
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Redwood MedNet - A
non-profit health information exchange (HIE) based in Ukiah,
California, founded in 2005 to electronically interconnect
participants in health care by enabling clinical data
interoperability, and to interoperate with national health
information technology initiatives. Redwood MedNet began delivery
of HIE services in Healdsburg in 2008, and is now open to all health
care providers in Northern California. From 2005 - 2007 Redwood
MedNet was the fiscal agent for the
Mendocino HRE project.
See
Clinical Messaging,
HIE,
Mendocino HRE,
RHIC
Redwood Health Information
Collaborative - See
RHIC
Remote Access - In computing, remote
access refers to logging into a computer network from a remote
location, such as logging onto your office computer from home.
Remote Presence - Generic term for use of
video conference technology to enable remote participation in a
meeting. In health care remote presence refers to use of video
conference tools to enable remote clinical consultation.
See
eICU,
Telehealth
Resident - [1] A
patient at a long term care facility. [2] A
stage of postgraduate training in pharmacy or medicine.
See
Long Term Care,
Patient
REST - Representational State Transfer
(REST) is a software architecture for a distributed hypermedia
environment, such as the Internet. REST was defined by Roy
Fielding. See also RFC 2616.
Services that conform to the REST constraints are said to be RESTful.
See
Ajax,
HTTP,
RFC,
SOAP
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RFC - In computer network engineering,
a Request for Comments (RFC) is a memorandum published by the
Internet Engineering Task Force
describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable
to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems.
See
CP,
DNS,
FTP,
HTTP,
IETF,
Internet Protocol,
LDAP,
MIME,
REST,
S/MIME,
SASL,
SMTP,
SNMP,
SNTP,
SSH,
TCP,
TLS,
URL,
XML,
XMPP
RFID - Radio
Frequency Identification.
RHC - Rural
Health Clinc. See
FQHC
RHIC - The
Redwood Health
Information Collaborative (RHIC) was formed in 2005 by the
Mendocino County Department of Public Health.
Funded by an "Information Links" grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
RHIC convened a Steering Committee to investigate the policy
implications of data exchange among rural health care providers
and Public Health in the Mendocino region. The Steering Committee
completed its grant funded deliverables in 2007. Redwood MedNet
continued the monthly meetings until December 2009 as a free
public webinar, with presentations on health technology and policy.
The RHIC
Archive contains many documents and presentation files.
See
Information Links
RHIO -
("ree-oh") Regional Health Information
Organization is a term introduced in 2004 for an HIE operating in a
geographically contiguous region. The term has limited usefulness
due to the many HIEs that are not strictly regional (e.g., the
Veterans Administration, the Indian Health Service, Kaiser
Permanente, etc.). See
CCBH,
e-Health Initiative,
IHS,
NHIN,
VA
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RI - See
Reference Implementation
RIM - Reference Information Model.
See
CDA,
HL7
RLS - Record Locator
Service, a specialized implementation of a Master Person Index (MPI)
proposed by Connecting
for Health, in which the MPI implementation is subordinated to
appropriate privacy, security and other health policy imperatives as
defined by the Common
Framework. An RLS holds information about where health data can
be found, but not the health data itself. Thus the RLS structurally
separates knowing who the information is about from knowing
what the information is, which inherently reduces the risk of
privacy spills. See
Connecting for Health,
HIPAA,
MPI,
PHI
RLUS - Resource Location and Updating
Service. See
HSSP
RODS - Real-time
Outbreak and Disease Surveillance, a biosurveillance research
laboratory at University of
Pittsburg. See
Biosurveillance
Router - A router is a computing
device that connects two or more computer networks and
selectively interchanges packets of data between them.
RPMS - Resource and
Patient Management System, an integrated EHR developed by the
Indian Health Service for the management of clinical, business
and administrative information in healthcare facilities ranging in
size from small clinics to hospitals. Architecturally, RPMS is a
cousin (literally, a programming fork two decades ago) of the VistA
EHR operated by the VA, and retains substantial shared code.
See
IHS,
VistA
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Rules Engine - See
Business Rules
Engine
RVU - Relative Value Unit in the
Medicare PFS. See
CMS,
MPFS
RWJF -
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation.
RXA - The pharmacy administration
portion of an HL7 message. See
HL7
RxNORM -
A standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs developed and
maintained by the National Library for Medicine. See
NLM
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Last Update: 30 December 2011