Informatics
What Team
Applications
Acronyms
BCH History
100

The specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice.

Nursing Informatics

100

ALICE is frozen

ASP

100

Named after a town in Italy this application prepares us for unforeseen disasters

Rome

100

CHAMPS

Children Hospital Application Maximizing Patient Safety

100

The first Nurse Superintendent – Sister Adeline Blanchard Tyler traveled to this European country to train, the same place that Florence Nightgale trained

Germany

200

A computer system that supports some aspect of the human decision-making process.

Decision support system / Clinical Decision Support (CDS)

200

CCTA is throwing an error

CareAware

200

Whether it is madden, 2K, TikTok or binging this app allows families to unwind

GetWell

200

ITAC

Information Technology Advisory Committee

200

This street in the South End was the first home of Boston Children’s Hospital

Rutland St

300

Type of testing done to check that a fixed item has not caused any unintended secondary problems in a system.

Regression testing

300

Technical ticket about PharmNet Application

Pharmacy IT

300

This application is used to distribute clinical documents coming from different source systems

CDDS

300

ALICE

Aggregated Local Information Collected Electronically

300

Boston Children’s Hospital made it’s final move to Longwood Avenue in this year

1914

400

Input, output, processing, feedback, and control are elements related to this theory.

System theory

400

No one else is having issues but a clinician now can’t login to Powerchart

CXP

400

This application sends a message to inform  relevant health care providers when a complex-chronic care patient  is unexpectedly admitted or readmitted as a BCH inpatient  or is scheduled for an unplanned surgery.

Associate Attending Notification (AAN) Application

400

FHIR

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

400

These animals typically seen on farms occupied the front lawn of the Hunnewell building in the early 1900s

Cows

500

This system meets HIPAA’s Security Rule requirements regarding access to PHI by enabling the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times for the right reasons.

Identity and access management (IAM) system

500

“I don’t know what room this patient is going to be transferred to”

COPPs

500

There is high hopes for this application to allow exchange of documentation between Cerner and Epic in the future

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

500

EPCS

Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substance

500

An early innovation at Boston Children’s hospital, an early ventilator – the Iron Lung, was developed to help treat respiratory symptoms of this virus

Polio

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