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Tech 4 the MT, Ch 1
Technology for the Medical Transcriptionist, Ch 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Epic | Epic Systems Corporation, a privately owned healthcare software company started in 1979 by Judy Faulkner, originally in Madison, Wisconsin, now in Verona, Wisconsin. |
| ARRA | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009) |
| HITECH Act | The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. |
| KLAS | Keystone Library Automation System |
| RIS | radiographic imaging system |
| PACS | picture archival communication system |
| EMR | electronic medical record |
| EHR | electronic health record |
| HIMSS | Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society |
| TB | terabyte 1,000,000,000,000 bytes 1 trillion bytes |
| GB | gigabyte 1,000,000,000 bytes 1 billion bytes |
| MB | megabyte 1,000,000 bytes 1 million bytes |
| KB | kilobyte 1,000 bytes 1 thousand bytes |
| byte | the smallest measurable unit of electronic information |
| BIOS | basic input/output software |
| RAM | random access memory increments of 64 MB (128, 256, 526, 1 GB, 2 GB, etc.) |
| DOS | disk operating system |
| Hz | hertz cycles per second |
| MHz | megahertz 1 million hertz 1 million cycles per second |
| GHz | gigahertz 1 billion hertz 1 billion cycles per second |
| CPU | central processing unit |
| OS | operating system |
| USB | universal serial bus |