eHealth Glossary

This eHealth glossary provides definitions for terms and abbreviations commonly encountered in eHealth, health information literacy and clinical informatics communications and publications. It draws from a number of health information management references.

Requests for additions and corrections, and alerts to any broken links, are welcomed. Please contact:

Alberta Health Services Chief Medical Information Office Editorial Board (cmio-manual@ahs.ca)

Browse

You can browse sets of terms specific to different eHealth domains by expanding and collapsing sections of the outline to the left (or revealed by clicking on the browse icon).

Search

Search for specific terms by clicking on the search icon at the top right and then entering a keyword, synonym or term of interest.