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Term (Acronym) |
Description |
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Attributes |
Attributes are abstractions of the data captured about classes.
Attributes capture separate aspects of the class and take their
values independent of one another. |
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Class Clone |
A class that is a clone of another class, derived from another class. |
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Data Type |
The structural format of the data carried in an attribute.
Every data element has a data type. Data types define the meaning (semantics) of data values that can be assigned to a data element. Meaningful exchange of data requires that we know the definition of values so exchanged.
This is true for complex "values" such as business messages as well as for simpler values such as character strings or integer numbers. |
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Data Type Flavour |
A subdivision of a particular data type, that
will constrain that particular data type. Data type flavour titles are suffixed with (f). |
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Distributed Computing Environment Universally Unique Identifier (DCE
UUID) |
A type of universally unique identifier (UUID). |
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Domain Message Specification (DMS) |
This provides information to implementers regarding the use of HL7 v3 messages
restricted to a particular domain or related group of domains,
for use within the English NHS. The main difference
between this and a
Message Implementation Manual (MIM), is that the MIM will
contain a variety of domains with their business analysis
artefacts included. |
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Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) |
This is the concept of electronic longitudinal collection of patient's health and health care from cradle to grave. It combines information from different care settings held in different systems and in some instances aggregates the data and shows them as a single record. It is a record in digital format that is capable of being shared across different health care settings, by being embedded in network-connected enterprise-wide information systems. |
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Electronic Patient Record (EPR) |
An electronic record of periodic health care of a single
individual, provided mainly by one institution. |
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Extensible Markup Language (XML) |
Is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. |
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Fully Specified Name (FSN) |
A Fully Specified Name is essentially the Preferred Term,
along with a "semantic tag" as a suffix to indicate the type of
concept and to eliminate ambiguity. For example, a particular
concept has the Preferred Term of "apoptosis", the ConceptID of
"20663007", and the Fully Specified Name of "Apoptosis
(morphologic abnormality)". |
| Health Care Provider
(HCP) |
Refers to a person licensed, certified or otherwise authorized or
permitted by law to administer health care in the ordinary course of
business or practice of a profession, including a health care facility. |
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Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) |
HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language.
A markup language is a set of markup tags.
HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages. |
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Legitimate Relationship (LR) |
A Legitimate Relationship is a relationship between a clinician (or
NHS organisation work group) and a patient, that gives the clinician,
or workgroup member, certain levels of entitlement to access that patient's
health record maintained on National Systems. |
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NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CfH) |
NHS Connecting for Health is an agency of the Department of Health and is delivering the National Programme for Information Technology
(NPfIT) in the NHS. |
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Object Identifier (OID) |
A unique identifier e.g. used to identify coding systems. |
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Patient Administration System (PAS) |
Is a core component of a hospital computer system which records the patient's name, home address, date of birth and each contact with the outpatient department or admission and discharge.
The NHS patient's record and appointment tracking system is often called PAS, depending on the
NHS Hospital Trust. This computerised administration solution that assists with
planning, tracking and recording the patient's contact with the
outpatient department or admission and discharge. |
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Preferred Term (PT) |
The Preferred Term is some word or phrase that is used by
clinicians to name a clinical concept. |
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Requester |
Individual or an organisation responsible for the requesting
an action to be performed for the patient. |
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Schematron |
The Schematron is an XML structure validation language for making assertions about the presence or absence of patterns in trees. It is a simple and powerful structural schema language. |
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Spine Directory Service (SDS) |
The main information source about NHS registered users and accredited systems and services. It ensures that transactions/messages are only processed from authorised users and systems.
The Spine Directory Service also stores a record of each NHS organisation. It is a key component of the Spine. |
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Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terminology (SNOMED
CT) |
This a clinical terminology. It is a common computerised language to facilitate communications between healthcare professionals in clear and unambiguous terms. It has greater depth and coverage of healthcare than the versions of Clinical Terms (Read Codes) that it will replace and will enable clinicians, researchers and patients to share and exchange healthcare and clinical knowledge worldwide.
SNOMED CT has been chosen to be the common language for gathering and sharing
medical knowledge in the NHS Care Records Service. It will cut down the potential for differing interpretation of information and the possibility of errors resulting from traditional paper records. |
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Synonym (SY) |
A synonym is an additional term that may define the concept at
the same level of granularity. |
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Transform (XSLT) |
A language for transforming eXtensible Markup Language. |
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Terminology Reference-Data Update Distribution Service (TRUD) |
The Terminology Reference-data Update Distribution Service (TRUD) provides a mechanism for the UK Terminology Centre to license and distribute reference-data to interested parties. |
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL) |
Is a reference (an address) to a resource on the Internet. For
example a URL could be the name of a file on the World Wide Web
because most URLs refer to a file on some machine on the
network. However, URLs also can point to other resources on the
network, such as database queries and command output. |