Definitions and History
Often confused with telemedicine, this broader term includes non-clinical services like provider training and administrative meetings
What is Tele Health
Supported by Apple and Google, this modern API-based standard is used for mobile and web apps to exchange health data
What is FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)?
This modality involves capturing data (like a retinal image) and sending it to a specialist for later review without real-time interaction
What is Asynchronous
According to a 2025 meta-analysis by Luo et al (2025) this intervention ranked #1 for "Functional Recovery" with a score of 99.6%.
What is Gamified Exergaming
Informatics tools are ethically required to augment human judgment, never to do this.
REPLACE IT
This term refers to the core scientific discipline that encompasses clinical, imaging, and public health informatics
What is Biomedical Informatics
This phenomenon occurs when staff become desensitized to safety alerts because up to 90% of them are false positives.
What is Alarm Fatigue?
This specific CPT code covers the "initial set-up and patient education" for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring equipment
What is 98975?
While AI skeleton detection is good at counting reps, it currently struggles to provide this specific type of output to the patient
What is Specific Feedback
The "Five Rights" of CDS are: Right Information, Right Person, Right Format, Right Channel, and this.
What is Right Point in Workflow
Unlike "passive" paper records, modern EHRs are described as this type of system because they offer trends, alerts, and corrective actions
Active Systems
This specific standard is used for identifying laboratory results and observations
What is LOINC
This critical telehealth application allows rural ERs to connect with neurologists to authorize tPA therapy for stroke patients.
what is Tele Stroke
This technology maps a patient's joints in real-time to compare their movement to a "Gold Standard.
what is skeleton approach
Privacy applies to people, but this term refers to the obligation to keep data secure.
What is Confidentiality
This scientific process, often described as "Bench to Bedside," moves concepts from basic research into clinical practice
What is Translational Science
Provides federal protections for personal health information
HIPAA
This CPT code is used for the supply of a device that monitors the musculoskeletal system.
What is 98977?
Unlike a human assistant who types notes, this specific AI tool listens to the patient encounter to automate documentation, helping to "fill the gaps" that busy clinicians don't have time for.
what is Ambient AI Scribe
This legal standard implies that using a computer does not shield a provider from the duty to uphold the standard of care.
What is Negligence?