How clinical data, documentation, decision support, and EHR workflows shape care at the bedside and across the care team. This page lists all 91 Clinical Informatics terms in the HIMSS Word of The Day series.
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- Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS)
- Data Governance
- Electronic Health Record (EHR)
- Flow Sheet
- Free Text
- Plan of Care (Care Plan)
- Point-of-Care System
- Quality Improvement (QI)
- Usability
- Workflow
All Clinical Informatics terms
- Addendum (AD)
- Advance Directive
- Adverse Drug Event (ADE)
- Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR)
- AE (Adverse Event/Adverse Experience)
- Alert
- Alert Fatigue
- Ambulatory Care
- Ambulatory Care Information System
- Ambulatory EHR
- AMR (Ambulatory Medical Record)
- Ancillary Care
- Anesthesia Information Management System (AIMS)
- APACHE (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation)
- Appointment
- Arden Syntax
- Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA)
- Bar Coding
- BH (Behavioral Health)
- Biomedical Informatics
- Care Transitions
- CCC (Clinical Care Classification)
- Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO)
- Chronic Disease
- Clinical Algorithm
- Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS)
- Clinical Informaticist
- Clinical Informatics
- Clinical Pathways (CPWs)
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Clinical Protocol
- CMIO (Chief Medical Information Officer)
- Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
- Critical Pathway
- Data Governance
- Digital Radiography
- Documentation Integrity
- Drug Interaction Database
- E-Prescribing (eRx)
- Electronic Health Record (EHR)
- Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM)
- eMAR (Electronic Medication Administration Record)
- Encounter
- Evidence-Based Medicine (Evidence-Based Practice)
- Flow Sheet
- Free Text
- Health Informatics
- Health Literacy
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Knowledge Base
- Laboratory Information System (LIS)
- LIP (Licensed Independent Practitioner)
- Look-Alike/Sound-Alike (LASA) Drugs
- LTC (Long-Term Care)
- LWBS (Left Without Being Seen)
- Medical Device Interface (MDI)
- Medical Error
- Medication Error
- NANDA Taxonomy II
- NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification)
- NOC (Nursing Outcome Classification)
- Nursing Informatics
- Nursing Information System
- Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS)
- Nutrition Informatics
- Omaha System
- Outbreak Management (OM)
- Patient Record
- Patient-Centric
- Pharmacy Informatics
- Pharmacy Information System (PIS)
- Plan of Care (Care Plan)
- PNDS (Perioperative Nursing Data Set)
- Point-of-Care System
- Precision Medicine
- Problem-Oriented Medical Record (POMR)
- Quality Improvement (QI)
- Radiology Information System (RIS)
- SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation)
- Science of Clinical Informatics
- Simulation
- SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)
- Standing Orders
- TIGER Initiative (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform)
- Transitions of Care (TOC)
- Usability
- Usability Testing
- User Experience (UX)
- VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture)
- Workflow
- Workflow Management
Further reading outside this series: ONC’s SAFER Guides for EHR safety and the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community.
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