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Comment: completion of Mary Helen's edits for Glossary

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Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (say "loink"); coding standard for healthcare measurements, such as laboratory test values and vital signs; authored by the Regenstrief Institute

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MITRE

The MITRE Corporation (mitre.org), author of Synthea{{^TM^}}TM

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ncats
ncats

NCATS

US National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (ncats.nih.gov) (say "en-cats"); part of the NIH

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Synthetic Public Use Files; a demonstration/development/test patient database consisting of Medicare claim information; not for research use (say "sin-puff")

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synthea
synthea

Synthea

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TM

a synthetic-patient-population generator; creates realistic (but not real) patient data and associated health records in a variety of formats; may be used for setting up a demo database for i2b2 (say "cynthia"); authored by The MITRE Corporation

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a glossary or collection of terms to describe a category or domain; for instance, the concepts in the Common Procedural Terminology (CPT) define a terminology for clinical procedures

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web server software for hosting Java-based applications; in the world of i2b2, Tomcat is used to host the SHRINE applications application

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transmart
transmart

tranSMART

software related to i2b2, used for translational studies; incorporates i2b2 CDM, but includes additional databases for genomics, etc. (i2b2i2b2transmart.org)

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trinetx
trinetx

TriNetX

multi-institution research network, similar to i2b2+SHRINE (say "try-net-ex") (trinetx.com)

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UMLS

Unified Medical Language System; coding system for all categories of clinical research informatics; authored by NLM

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VA

US Veterans Administration (va.gov); author of VA Classes coding standard for medications

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vocabulary
vocabulary

vocabulary

similar to terminology; each coding standard periodically publishes a revision of its vocabulary, which defines all the terms which should be in current use in the i2b2 ontology

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World Health Organization (who.int) (say "w-h-o", not "who"); author of ICD coding standards



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