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Term | Full Form | Description | |
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| 1 | API | Application Programming Interface | A set of definitions and protocols to build and integrate application software. |
| 2 | ABDM | Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission | India’s National blueprint architecture for all Digital Health systems, built on FHIR standard. Read more here: Bahmni and ABDM |
| 3 | ATC | Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System | The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System is a drug classification system that classifies the active ingredients of drugs according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic, pharmacological and chemical properties. Its purpose is an aid to monitor drug use and for research to improve quality medication use. Read more on wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_Therapeutic_Chemical_Classification_System |
| 4 | CIEL | Columbia International eHealth Laboratory (CIEL) dictionary. | The CIEL concept dictionary is a dictionary of over 53 thousand concepts relevant to health information systems in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Those concepts include diagnoses, procedures, medications, labs and observables (answers to questions) all mapped to international standard coding systems such as ICD-10-WHO, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNORM, and many others. It is used by electronic health records and other health information systems in more than 40 countries. Read more here: https://openconceptlab.org/2022/10/19/ciel-bridging-terminology-for-the-global-community/ |
| 45 | DCM4Chee | Open Source Clinical Image and Object Management software that acts as a PACS server. | dcm4che is a collection of open source applications and utilities for the healthcare enterprise. These applications have been developed in the Java programming language for performance and portability, supporting deployment on JDK 1.6 and up. |
| 56 | DHIS2 | District Health Information Management System | |
| 67 | DICOM | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard | DICOM standard specifies a non-proprietary data interchange protocol, digital image format, and file structure for biomedical images and image-related information. |
| 78 | EMR | Electronic Medical Record | |
| 89 | EHR | Electronic Health Record | |
| 910 | ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning software | (like Odoo, SAP, etc) |
| 1011 | FHIR | The HL7® FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard | |
| 1112 | HIE | Health Information Exchange | |
| 1213 | HIMS | Hospital Information Management System (e.g Bahmni) | |
| 1314 | ICD10 | International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) | ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the ICD, a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10#Chapters |
| 1415 | IDM | Identity Management | |
| 1516 | LOINC | Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) standard | Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) is a database and universal standard for identifying medical laboratory observations |
| 1617 | OCL | Open Concept Lab | |
| 1718 | OpenMRS | Open Medical Record System (opensource software) | |
| 1819 | OpenELIS | Open Enterprise Lab Information System (opensource) | https://openelis-global.org/ (Note: Bahmni ships a forked version of OpenELIS). |
| 1920 | OTP | One Time Password | A way of ensuring security by sending/generating a single-use password. |
| 2021 | PACS | Picture archiving and communication system | A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a computerised means of replacing the roles of conventional radiological film: images are acquired, stored, transmitted, and displayed digitally. |
| 2122 | REST API | Representational State Transfer (REST) | Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architecture that imposes conditions on how an API should work. RESTful API is an interface that two computer systems use to exchange information securely over the internet |
| 2223 | RxNorm | Short for: medical prescription normalized | US-specific terminology in medicine that contains all medications available on the US market |
| 2324 | SHR | SHR (Shared Health Record) | In healthcare, a Shared Health Record (SHR) is a patient's complete medical record that is shared among different care providers |
| 2425 | SNOMED | Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED) standard | |
| 2526 | UHI | Unified Health Interface (UHI) | The Unified Health Interface (UHI) is a network of open protocols that enable the interoperability in health services. https://uhi.abdm.gov.in/ |
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