Health Level 7/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Clinical decision support system [r]: Interactive computer programs that directly assist physicians and other health professionals with decision-making tasks. ^[e]
• Electronic health record [r]: Longitudinal collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations ^[e]
• Electronic medical record [r]: A digital form of medical (hospital or clinic) record. ^[e]
• Health care delivery [r]: The mechanisms of delivering health services, and the separate metrics of patient satisfaction and comfort versus objective cost-effectiveness of delivery ^[e]
• Medical informatics [r]: Science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to aspects of health care and medicine. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Clinical data warehouse [r]: A facility that houses all electronic data collected at a clinical center. ^[e]
• Digital imaging and communications in medicine [r]: A set of technical specifications for putting medical information consisting of images, of all types, into digital form, such that they can be stored in a computer system or transmitted to a remote computer ^[e]
• Health care quality assurance [r]: Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. ^[e]
• Informed consent [r]: Agreement, by the person affected or his surrogate, to make a knowledgeable decision consenting to participation in a medical treatment or research trial ^[e]
• Medical ethics [r]: The study of moral values as they apply to medicine. ^[e]
• Randomized controlled trial [r]: Method used to ensure objectivity when testing medical treatments. ^[e]