| ACID | Arithmetic, Coding, Information, and Digit Span; automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator |
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| AEMIS | Aerospace and Environmental Medicine Information System |
| AHIMA | American Health Information Management Association |
| AHIS | automated hospital information system |
| AIC | Akaike's information criterion [a goodness-of-fit measure]; aminoimidazole carboxamide; Association ... |
| information storage and retrieval | A branch of computer or library science relating to the storage, locating, searching, and selecting, upon demand, relevant data on a given subject. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| information system | Combination of vital and health statistical data from multiple sources, used to derive information and make decisions about the health needs, health resources, costs, use, and outcome of health care. (05 Mar 2000) |
| information systems | Integrated set of files, procedures, and equipment for the storage, manipulation, and retrieval of information. (12 Dec 1998) |
| information theory | An interdisciplinary study dealing with the transmission of messages or signals, or the communication of information. Information theory does not directly deal with meaning or content, but with physical representations that have meaning or content. It overlaps considerably with communication theory and cybernetics. (12 Dec 1998) |
| integrated advanced information management systems | A concept, developed in 1983 under the aegis of and supported by the national library of medicine under the name of integrated academic information management systems, to provide professionals in academic health sciences centres and health sciences institutions with convenient access to an integrated and comprehensive network of knowledge. It addresses a wide cross-section of users from administrators and faculty to students and clinicians and has applications to planning, clinical and managerial decision-making, teaching, and research. It provides access to various types of clinical, management, educational, etc., databases, as well as to research and bibliographic databases. In august 1992 the name was changed from integrated academic information management systems to integrated advanced information management systems to reflect use beyond the academic milieu. (12 Dec 1998) |
| operating room information systems | Information systems, usually computer-assisted, designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling administrative activities associated with the provision and utilization of operating room services and facilities. (12 Dec 1998) |