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B GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
B GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
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ATM uses packets called cells that are designed to switch ceils so fast that there is no perceptible delay. Sources for these definitions, in addition to members of the committee, include ORHP, 1993; Greberman et al., 1994; OTA 1995; and the Telemedicine Glossary developed by the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse (http://www.hscsyr.edu/ wwwserve/telemedicine/glossary.html)
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Bandwidth. A measure of the information carrying capacity of a communications channel; a practical limit to the size, cost, and capability of a telemedicine service.
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Group communications through computers, or the use of sharec! computer files, remote terminal equipment, and telecommunications channels for two-way, real-time .
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Direct digital imaging. Involves the capture of digital images so that they can be electronically transmitted.
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Frame Relay. A streamlined process of sending and acknowledging transmitted packets of data which improves the rate of data transfer compared to previous transmission protocols.
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A solid state microcircuit consisting of interconnected semiconductor elements diffused into a single device. Integrated services `digital network (ISDN)
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. Local telephone service areas created by the divestiture of the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs, see below)
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. A system that acquires, transmits, stores, retrieves, and displays digital images and related patient information from a variety of imaging sources and communicates the information over a network.
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Store-an`~-forwar`~. Transmission of static images or audio-video clips to a remote data storage device, from which they can be retrieved by a medical practitioner for review and consultation at any time, obviating the need for the simultaneous availability of the consulting parties and reducing transmission costs due to low bandwidth requirements.
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Telemonitoring. The use of audio, vicleo, and other telecommunications and electronic information processing technologies to monitor patient status at a distance.
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Tie line. A leased or dedicated telephone circuit provided by common carriers that links two points together without using the switched telephone network (see trunk, below)
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for individual uses such as word, information, and image processing. ABBREVIATIONS AHCPR Agency for Health Care Policy and Research AHEC Area Health Education Center AMA American Medical Association AMIA American Medical Informatics Association ANST American National Standards Institute ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency, DOD ASCII American Standard Code for Information Inter change ATA American Telemedicine Association ATM Asynchronous transfer mode BOC Bell Operating Companies CATV Cable television CD-ROM Compact disk, read-only memory
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APPENDIX B 251 CODEC Coder-decoder CPR Computer-based patient record CPU Central processing unit DBS Direct broadcast satellite DHHS Department of Health and Human Services DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine DOD Department of Defense DVA Department of Veterans Affairs EDI Electronic data interchange HCFA Health Care Financing Administration HIS Hospital Information System HL-7 Health Level-7 Data Communications Protocol HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications IOM Institute of Medicine ISDN Integrated services digital network iCAHO joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations LAN Local area network LDC Long distance carrier LEC Local exchange carrier MRT Magnetic Resonance Imaging NAS National Academy of Sciences NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NTH National Institutes of Health Nil National Information Infrastructure NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NEM National Library of Medicine NRC National Research Council NSF National Science Foundation ORHP Office of Rural Health Policy OTA Office of Technology Assessment
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252 PACS PBX PHO PPO PSN PSTN RAN RBOC RIS TCP/IP TIE WAN WATS WWW TELEMEDICINE Picture archiving and communications systems Private branch exchange Physician hospital organization Preferred provider organization Packet switched network Public switched telephone network Rural area network Regional Bell Operating Company Radiology Information System Transmission control protocol/Internet protocol Telemedicine Information Exchange World area network World area telephone service World Wide Web
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