Health Informatics Glossary
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X12 -
X12 is a Standards Development
Organization (SDO) for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Founded in
1979, and ANSI accredited, X12 has sponsored more than 315 EDI
standards and a growing collection of XML schemas for health care,
insurance, government, transportation, finance, and other industries.
See
ANSI,
EDI,
SDO
XDS -
Cross enterprise document sharing. See
IHE
Xerox PARC - See
PARC
XML -
eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) is a general-purpose markup language adaptable to many
different kinds of data. XML is used extensively to transfer
health data between different and incompatible computer
systems. See
CCD,
CCR,
Schema
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XMPP -
eXtensible Messaging and
Presence Protocol (XMPP), formerly named Jabber
is an open, XML-based protocol aimed at near-real-time, extensible
instant messaging (IM) and presence information, but now expanded
into the broader realm of message-oriented middleware. Built to be
extensible, the protocol has been extended with features such as VOIP,
file transfer signaling and Google
Wave. XMPP is included as a native service in the 3.x branch of
the CONNECT gateway. See
CONNECT,
IM,
VOIP
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