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 |