Health IT and Electronic Health Definitions

This glossary explains the meaning of key words and phrases that information technology (IT) and business professionals use when discussing health IT and related software products. You can find additional definitions by visiting WhatIs.com or using the search box below.

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Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is a society of radiologists and similar health scientists that seeks to encourage connections between colleagues and provide scientists with a platform for radiology education and research.
WMTS (wireless medical telemetry service)

WMTS (wireless medical telemetry services) is the remote monitoring of a patient's physiological parameters, such as pulse and respiration rates, with radio technology.

Compliance rules usher in new era for personal data privacy policy

With the rollout of data privacy regulations, individual data rights and the right to be forgotten are forcing organizations to ...

EU GDPR terms to know

Compliance regulations can be complicated to follow, particularly in the new age of data privacy. Here's a breakdown of the ...

State data privacy laws, regulations changing CISO priorities

Attorney and IT security expert Scott Giordano discusses how the growing number of state data privacy laws are changing CISOs' ...

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Surveillance technology under fire, amid growing societal concerns

As San Francisco halts city use of facial recognition technology, CIOs could see more regulatory actions against surveillance ...

Deep learning pioneer Fei-Fei Li on the fundamentals of ethical AI

AI luminary Fei-Fei Li was among a group of distinguished AI researchers asked to share their thoughts on how to develop ethical ...

Andrew Ng's AI playbook for the enterprise: 6 must-dos

AI legend and online education pioneer Andrew Ng has developed an AI playbook for businesses. Here are six must-dos.

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Couchbase cozies up to Kubernetes for multi-cloud deployments

Couchbase adds support for Kubernetes container-based deployments of its popular NoSQL database across multiple clouds, such as ...

Google, Informatica deepen ties around big data in the cloud

Google and Informatica have expanded their partnership and product integrations as enterprise customers seek to move large data ...

Multi-cloud management tools fall short of expectations

Multi-cloud presents new management issues for enterprises. Users want better visibility and control of multiple clouds, but ...

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Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 resurrects AR for Google

At $999, the Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 for businesses promises better performance, battery life, camera quality and style...

Lenovo launches AR for the workplace with ThinkReality

Lenovo announced ThinkReality A6, its new head-mounted AR product. It was designed specifically with the workforce in mind to ...

Transition to Android Enterprise management before Android Q

With the upcoming deprecation of Device Admin APIs, IT should look at the possibility of migration to Android Enterprise, ...

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CrowdStrike, NSS Labs settle legal disputes over product testing

CrowdStrike and NSS Labs have ended their legal dispute with a confidential settlement agreement, which resolves all lawsuits ...

Barracuda Advanced Bot Protection safeguards web applications

Advanced Bot Protection is a cloud-hosted platform that defends against automated threats using AI. It is available as both a web...

Microsoft bets on ElectionGuard SDK to fortify election security

Ahead of the 2020 elections, Microsoft unveiled ElectionGuard, an open source SDK designed to provide end-to-end verification of ...

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Why storage tiering is necessary now more than ever

Tiered storage is making a comeback by incorporating AI machine learning to take advantage of the cost and performance benefits ...

Portworx focuses on protecting container apps

The Portworx PX-Enterprise 2.2 storage software update adds single-command backup of container-based data and Kubernetes ...

Tintri by DDN storage customers unsure of roadmap

After buying Tintri in 2018, DataDirect Networks moved to rebuild the VM storage vendor's engineering. But customers claim DDN ...