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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]
Subtopics
- Clinical Document Architecture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Context Management Architecture [r]: Add brief definition or description
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]
- Electronic data interchange [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Electronic physician order entry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Health care economics [r]: Economic and political considerations of resource use in health care, including funding, allocation and rationing [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]
- Privacy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Randomized controlled trial [r]: "Work consisting of a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table." (Anonymous, (2009) Randomized controlled trial (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.) [e]
