The terms Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) are often used interchangeably. RHIO is a group of organizations with a business stake in improving the [..]

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 A healthcare organization characterized by a payment and care delivery model that seeks to tie provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an assigned popu [..]

 A continuous signal where the time varying variable is represented by another time varying quantity. It differs from a digital signal where a continuous quantity is represented by a discrete function [..]

 An ASP hosts a variety of applications on a central server. For a fee, customers can access the applications over secure Internet connections or a private network. This means that they do not need to [..]

 Term  describing store and forward transmission of medical images and/or data because the  data transfer takes place over a period of time, and typically in separate time frames. The transmission typ [..]

 A telecommunications standard to support voice, video and data communications. The mode uses asynchronous time-division multiplexing and encodes data into small, fixed-sized cells rather than packets [..]

 A method of verifying the identity of a person sending or receiving information using passwords, keys and other automated identifiers. 

 A measure of the information carrying capacity of a communications channel; a practical limit to the size, cost, and capability of a telemedicine service.

 An ISDN (see below) configuration that provides two bearer (B) channels at 64 kilobits/second (kbit/s) each and one data (D) channel at 16 kbit/s. B channels are for voice data and D channels for any [..]