Data quality, governance, registries, dashboards, and the analytics used to measure and improve health care. This page lists all 60 Data and Analytics terms in the HIMSS Word of The Day series.
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All Data and Analytics terms
- Abstracting (Data Abstraction)
- Ad Hoc Query
- ADG (Ambulatory Diagnostic Group)
- Advanced Analytics
- Analytics
- Atomic Data
- Average Length of Stay (ALOS)
- Big Data
- Biosurveillance
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- Case Mix
- CDW (Clinical Data Warehouse)
- Clinical Data Repository (CDR)
- Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
- Dashboard
- Data Aggregation
- Data Analytics
- Data Cleaning (Data Cleansing)
- Data Integrity
- Data Linkage
- Data Mining
- Data Profiling
- Data Provenance
- Data Quality
- Data Validation
- Data Visualization
- Data Warehouse
- Demographic Data
- Digital Twin
- Disease Registry
- eCQI (Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement)
- EDC (Electronic Data Capture System)
- Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM)
- ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)
- Genomics
- GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out)
- Hadoop
- Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)
- Indicator
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- Master Patient Index (MPI)
- Metadata
- NEMSIS (National EMS Information System)
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
- OLAP (Online Analytical Processing)
- Patient Registry
- Registry
- Secondary Data Use
- Severity System
- Smart Contract
- Social Media Monitoring
- Social Network
- SQL (Structured Query Language)
- Structured Data
- System of Record
- Unstructured Data
- USHIK (United States Health Information Knowledgebase)
- Variance Analysis
- Web Analytics
- Web Crawler
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