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End user. In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) [ a] is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The end user stands in contrast to users who support or maintain the product, [ 4] such as sysops, system administrators, database administrators, [ 5] information technology (IT ...
Health information technology (HIT) is "the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, health data, and knowledge for communication and decision making". [ 8] Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species ...
The electronic health record (EHR) is a more longitudinal collection of the electronic health information of individual patients or populations. The EMR, in contrast, is the patient record created by providers for specific encounters in hospitals and ambulatory environments and can serve as a data source for an EHR. [ 6][ 7] In contrast, a ...
End-user computing. End-user computing ( EUC) refers to systems in which non-programmers can create working applications. [ 1] EUC is a group of approaches to computing that aim to better integrate end users into the computing environment. These approaches attempt to realize the potential for high-end computing to perform problem-solving in a ...
Lieberman et al. propose the following definition: [12] End-User Development can be defined as a set of methods, techniques, and tools that allow users of software systems, who are acting as non-professional software developers, at some point to create, modify or extend a software artifact.
Health informatics. Medical informatics introduces information processing concepts and machinery to the domain of medicine. Health informatics is the study and implementation of computer structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding, and management of medical information. [ 1] It can be viewed as a branch of engineering and ...
User innovation refers to innovation by intermediate users (e.g. user firms) or consumer users (individual end-users or user communities ), rather than by suppliers (producers or manufacturers ). [ 1] This is a concept closely aligned to co-design and co-creation, and has been proven to result in more innovative solutions than traditional ...
Interoperability. An example of software interoperability: a mobile device and a TV device both playing the same digital music file that is stored on a server off-screen in the home network. Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems. [ 1] While the term was initially defined for ...