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A field of medicine in which communication and information technologies are used to provide patients with medical care at remote locations.
Telemedicine
The use of learning tools to show what a medical emergency looks like or how a healthcare procedure is performed.
Healthcare Simulations
The creation of an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another; has identical DNA to it's parents.
Cloning
An artificial device that replaces a missing part of the body such as a limb
Prosthesis
Reports used during a shift change or change in the level of patient care to explain a patient’s current situation.
Handoff Reports
Technology that uses biological processes, organisms, or systems to develop products intended to improve the quality of human life.
Biotechnology
A mobile computer used to access and enter patient information while moving around the healthcare facility; often rolled into a patient's hospital room.
Computer on Wheels (COW)
A digital record that contains information from a single medical practice or even a single stay in one healthcare facility
Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
Prescription drugs that are produced as a result of biotechnology.
Biopharmaceuticals
The manipulation of genetic materials to eliminate undesirable traits or to ensure desirable traits.
Genetic Engineering
Legislation passed to improve healthcare through increased use of health information technology (HIT).
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act