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i2b2 - Informatics for Integrating Biology & the Bedside. See CDR

ICD - The International Classification of Diseases, published by the World Health Organization, provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ICD codes are widely used in electronic health data. The current release is ICD-10, the USA still uses ICD-9, and the planned release date for ICD-11 is 2017. ICD-11 will fully harmonize ICD and SNOMED CT. See CPT, SNOMED, WHO

Icon - See Computer Icon, GUI, PARC

ICT - Information and Communication Technology. See ITU

ICU - Intensive Care Unit. See eICU, NICU

IDN - Integrated Delivery Network.

IEEE - [ EYE - triple - ee ] The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is an international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. It has 360,000 members in 175 countries. IEEE develops technology standards for a wide range of industries, including: power and energy, biomedical and healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, transportation, nanotechnology, and more. Two notable IEEE standards are the 802.3 Ethernet standard and the 802.11 Wireless Networking standard. See Ethernet, SDO, Wi-Fi

IEPD - Information Exchange Package Documentation See NIEM

IETF - The mission of the Internet Engineering Task Force is to make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet. See RFC

IFR - Interim Final Rule. See NPRM

IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise is an initiative to develop a framework for passing health information seamlessly, from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting across the entire healthcare enterprise. See ATNA, BPPC, CONNECT, CSD, CT, Facility Registry, HWR, HIMSS, HPD, NHIN Direct, PDQ, PIX, RFD, XDM, XDR, XDS

IHI - The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, an independent not-for-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide. See Kaizen, P4P, QI, Triple Aim

IHS - Indian Health Service is a federal agency chartered to improve the mental, physical, social, and spiritual health of approximately 1.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who are members of federally recognized Tribes and Villages. The IHS operates 33 hospitals, 59 health centers, 50 health stations, and 34 urban health projects. The IHS is a major operating division of HHS. See HHS, RPMS

IHTSDO - International Health Technology Standards Development Organization. See SNOMED

IIHI - Individually Identifiable Health Information. See PHI, PII

IIS - Immunization Information System, a population-based computerized information system that gathers and stores patient vaccination data within a geographic area, providing vaccine inventory management, forecasting, reminders/recalls and reports.

ILI - Influenza-like illness See Distribute

ILInet - 3,000 health care providers in all 50 states reporting specific data elements on ILI once a week. See CDC

IM - Instant Messaging. See TXT, XMPP

IMIA - International Medical Informatics Association. See AMIA, MedInfo

Imperative - A term defined by RFC 2119. See May, Must, Required, Recommended, RFC, Shall, Should

Indian Health Service See IHS

Inference Engine - A computer program designed to seek answers from a knowledge base. See Business Rules Engine, Expert System, Knowledge Base

InfoLinks - A former PHIN Community of Practice (COP) focused on the intersection of Public Health reporting and health information exchange. InfoLinks was an outgrowth of the 2005 RWJF Information Links study, which engaged a cohort of two dozen local health departments on the same topic. See COP, PHIN, RWJF

Informatics - The practical study of the structure, creation, management, storage, retrieval, dissemination and transfer of information in natural and engineered computational environments. See AMIA, Computer Science, GIGO, IMIA, MedInfo, Nursing Informatics, PII, SHARPn

Information Links See InfoLinks

Infostealer - Generic name for a type of malware such as a keylogger. See Adware, Keylogging, Malware

Inpatient - A patient receiving care while admitted to a hospital for an indeterminate time, staying overnight for one or more evenings. See Acute Care, Patient, Outpatient

Instructions - Messages or signals that, upon receipt by a device, result in the performance of a specific act or series of acts. See Message, Signal

Intellectual Property - In law, Intellectual Property (IP) refers to types of legal monopolies over commercial and artistic creations of the mind. Intellectual property owners are granted specific exclusive rights to the ideas. Common intellectual property types are copyrights, trademarks and patents. See cc, Copyleft, Copyright, DRM, Open Source, Patent

Interface - [1] In computer science an interface is a hardware or software tool to enable input or output communication between one system and another, typically via a standard protocol. [2] In health information exchange most clinical data interfaces are software scripts built with standard communication protocols. For example Redwood MedNet uses the open source Mirth Connect interface engine, which uses JavaScript to choreograph the handling of clinical messages received from a sending software system or sent to a receiving software system. See Computer Science, Informatics, Interface Engine, ISO, JavaScript, Open Source, Protocol, Standard, W3C

Interface Engine - A software application built to manage development, deployment, and operations of interfaces, especially in the health care domain. See Interface

Internet - The global system of interconnected computer networks using TCP/IP to connect billions of users worldwide. See DNS, IETF, OSI Model, SMTP, TCP/IP, W3C, WWW

Internet Protocol - The Internet Protocol (IP), defined in RFC 791, is the Internet layer in TCP/IP, the protocol stack that enables data packets to be routed on the Internet. See IP, Protocol, RFC, TCP/IP

IOM - The Institute of Medicine, an operating division of the National Academies, convenes subject matter experts to serve on volunteer committees to provide the nation with authoritative, objective, and scientifically balanced answers to difficult questions of national importance.

IP See [1] Intellectual Property; [2] Internet Protocol

IPA - Independent Practice Association.

IPHI - The UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement seeks to create, apply and disseminate knowledge about the many determinates of health in order to improve health and health security and to support activities which improve health equity and eliminate health disparities. See CHeQ, UCDHS

IPPE - Initial Preventive Physical Examination, a reimbursable patient encounter defined by CMS. See CMS, PPPS

IPsec - Internet Protocol Security, defined by RFC 4301. See IETF, RFC, VPN

IRB - Institutional Review Board, a committee to monitor research involving humans. Also known as an Independent Ethics Committee.

ISDS - The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) is dedicated to the improvement of population health by advancing the field of disease surveillance. The Society convenes an annual conference on surveillance methods and applications, maintains the syndromic.org website, hosts several volunteer committees, and directs the Distribute surveillance project. See Biosurveillance, CDC, CDPH, Distribute, WHO

ISO - [ EYE - so ] The International Organization for Standardization is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, with a central office in Geneva, Switzerland. ISO coordinates the system and publishes the finished standards. ISO is a non-government organization. The American member of ISO is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). See ANSI, DICOM, DSTU, OSI Model, SDO, W3C, X.500

ISP - Internet Service Provider.

IT - Information Technology. See HIT

ITU - Information Technology Union, based in Geneva, Switzerland, is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICT). ITU allocates global radio spectrum and satellite orbits, develops technical standards to ensure networks and technologies seamlessly interconnect, and strives to improve access to ICTs to underserved communities worldwide. See ICT, OSI Model

IXC - Interexchange Carrier, the network engineering term for a long distance telephone company that provisions inter-LATA communication services. See Carrier, LATA, LEC


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	Health Informatics Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z i2b2 - Informatics for Integrating Biology & the Bedside. See CDR ICD - The International Classification of Diseases, published by the World Health Organization, provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ICD codes are widely used in electronic health data. The current release is ICD-10, the USA still uses ICD-9, and the planned release date for ICD-11 is 2017. ICD-11 will fully harmonize ICD and SNOMED CT. See CPT, SNOMED, WHO Icon - See Computer Icon, GUI, PARC ICT - Information and Communication Technology. See ITU ICU - Intensive Care Unit. See eICU, NICU IDN - Integrated Delivery Network. IEEE - [ EYE - triple - ee ] The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is an international non-profit, professional organization for the advancement of technology related to electricity. It has 360,000 members in 175 countries. IEEE develops technology standards for a wide range of industries, including: power and energy, biomedical and healthcare, information technology, telecommunications, transportation, nanotechnology, and more. Two notable IEEE standards are the 802.3 Ethernet standard and the 802.11 Wireless Networking standard. See Ethernet, SDO, Wi-Fi IEPD - Information Exchange Package Documentation See NIEM Top of Page IETF - The mission of the Internet Engineering Task Force is to make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet. See RFC IFR - Interim Final Rule. See NPRM IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise is an initiative to develop a framework for passing health information seamlessly, from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting across the entire healthcare enterprise. See ATNA, BPPC, CONNECT, CSD, CT, Facility Registry, HWR, HIMSS, HPD, NHIN Direct, PDQ, PIX, RFD, XDM, XDR, XDS IHI - The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, an independent not-for-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide. See Kaizen, P4P, QI, Triple Aim IHS - Indian Health Service is a federal agency chartered to improve the mental, physical, social, and spiritual health of approximately 1.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who are members of federally recognized Tribes and Villages. The IHS operates 33 hospitals, 59 health centers, 50 health stations, and 34 urban health projects. The IHS is a major operating division of HHS. See HHS, RPMS IHTSDO - International Health Technology Standards Development Organization. See SNOMED Top of Page IIHI - Individually Identifiable Health Information. See PHI, PII IIS - Immunization Information System, a population-based computerized information system that gathers and stores patient vaccination data within a geographic area, providing vaccine inventory management, forecasting, reminders/recalls and reports. ILI - Influenza-like illness See Distribute ILInet - 3,000 health care providers in all 50 states reporting specific data elements on ILI once a week. See CDC IM - Instant Messaging. See TXT, XMPP IMIA - International Medical Informatics Association. See AMIA, MedInfo Imperative - A term defined by RFC 2119. See May, Must, Required, Recommended, RFC, Shall, Should Indian Health Service See IHS Inference Engine - A computer program designed to seek answers from a knowledge base. See Business Rules Engine, Expert System, Knowledge Base Top of Page InfoLinks - A former PHIN Community of Practice (COP) focused on the intersection of Public Health reporting and health information exchange. InfoLinks was an outgrowth of the 2005 RWJF Information Links study, which engaged a cohort of two dozen local health departments on the same topic. See COP, PHIN, RWJF Informatics - The practical study of the structure, creation, management, storage, retrieval, dissemination and transfer of information in natural and engineered computational environments. See AMIA, Computer Science, GIGO, IMIA, MedInfo, Nursing Informatics, PII, SHARPn Information Links See InfoLinks Infostealer - Generic name for a type of malware such as a keylogger. See Adware, Keylogging, Malware Inpatient - A patient receiving care while admitted to a hospital for an indeterminate time, staying overnight for one or more evenings. See Acute Care, Patient, Outpatient Instructions - Messages or signals that, upon receipt by a device, result in the performance of a specific act or series of acts. See Message, Signal Intellectual Property - In law, Intellectual Property (IP) refers to types of legal monopolies over commercial and artistic creations of the mind. Intellectual property owners are granted specific exclusive rights to the ideas. Common intellectual property types are copyrights, trademarks and patents. See cc, Copyleft, Copyright, DRM, Open Source, Patent Top of Page Interface - [1] In computer science an interface is a hardware or software tool to enable input or output communication between one system and another, typically via a standard protocol. [2] In health information exchange most clinical data interfaces are software scripts built with standard communication protocols. For example Redwood MedNet uses the open source Mirth Connect interface engine, which uses JavaScript to choreograph the handling of clinical messages received from a sending software system or sent to a receiving software system. See Computer Science, Informatics, Interface Engine, ISO, JavaScript, Open Source, Protocol, Standard, W3C Interface Engine - A software application built to manage development, deployment, and operations of interfaces, especially in the health care domain. See Interface Internet - The global system of interconnected computer networks using TCP/IP to connect billions of users worldwide. See DNS, IETF, OSI Model, SMTP, TCP/IP, W3C, WWW Internet Protocol - The Internet Protocol (IP), defined in RFC 791, is the Internet layer in TCP/IP, the protocol stack that enables data packets to be routed on the Internet. See IP, Protocol, RFC, TCP/IP IOM - The Institute of Medicine, an operating division of the National Academies, convenes subject matter experts to serve on volunteer committees to provide the nation with authoritative, objective, and scientifically balanced answers to difficult questions of national importance. IP See [1] Intellectual Property; [2] Internet Protocol IPA - Independent Practice Association. Top of Page IPHI - The UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement seeks to create, apply and disseminate knowledge about the many determinates of health in order to improve health and health security and to support activities which improve health equity and eliminate health disparities. See CHeQ, UCDHS IPPE - Initial Preventive Physical Examination, a reimbursable patient encounter defined by CMS. See CMS, PPPS IPsec - Internet Protocol Security, defined by RFC 4301. See IETF, RFC, VPN IRB - Institutional Review Board, a committee to monitor research involving humans. Also known as an Independent Ethics Committee. ISDS - The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) is dedicated to the improvement of population health by advancing the field of disease surveillance. The Society convenes an annual conference on surveillance methods and applications, maintains the syndromic.org website, hosts several volunteer committees, and directs the Distribute surveillance project. See Biosurveillance, CDC, CDPH, Distribute, WHO ISO - [ EYE - so ] The International Organization for Standardization is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, with a central office in Geneva, Switzerland. ISO coordinates the system and publishes the finished standards. ISO is a non-government organization. The American member of ISO is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). See ANSI, DICOM, DSTU, OSI Model, SDO, W3C, X.500 ISP - Internet Service Provider. IT - Information Technology. See HIT ITU - Information Technology Union, based in Geneva, Switzerland, is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICT). ITU allocates global radio spectrum and satellite orbits, develops technical standards to ensure networks and technologies seamlessly interconnect, and strives to improve access to ICTs to underserved communities worldwide. See ICT, OSI Model IXC - Interexchange Carrier, the network engineering term for a long distance telephone company that provisions inter-LATA communication services. See Carrier, LATA, LEC

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