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The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, / f aɪər /, like fire) standard is a set of rules and specifications for the secure exchange of electronic health care data. It is designed to be flexible and adaptable, so that it can be used in a wide range of settings and with different health care information systems.
The standard defines documents for electronic transmission of medical prescriptions in the United States. The NCPDP Telecommunications standard includes transactions for eligibility verification, claim and service billing, predetermination of benefits, prior authorization, and information reporting, and is used primarily in the United States.
Term convergent billing system refers to such a solution, that could maintain single customer account and produce a single bill for all services (for example, it could be public switched telephone network, cable TV and cable internet services for one customer) and also do it regardless a payment method (prepaid or postpaid).
During the summer of 1999, while the communications industry was grappling with massive growth in the use of Internet Protocol-based networks for voice and data communications, a group of industry veterans formed the IPDR Organization to begin to establish standards for use in operational and business support systems used by the communications carriers. [1]
Billing mediation platforms get their name from their behavior: they "mediate" data between systems. In a typical telephone company scenario, the systems providing data to the mediation platform are network elements, such as telephone switches, and the systems receiving data from the mediation platform perform accounting, auditing, archiving, or bill-generation functions.
LHS main product is BSCS (Business Support & Control System), an end-to-end rating, billing, interconnect and customer care system for telecommunication operators which is used widely till this day on a global level due to the large market share that it acquired during the early 2000s (more than 100 telecom operators) and their latest release under LHS was BSCS iX.
cTAKES ("clinical Text Analysis Knowledge Extraction Software") is a natural language processing system for extracting information from electronic medical record clinical free-text, an Apache top level project (TLP) since 2013, developed by the Mayo Clinic and others. It is available under the Apache license. [54]
This section is about data exchange between hardware devices. In order for the devices to be able to read and exchange data, they would use a hardware-specific protocol (such as the radio signal) which is generated by a hardware device acting as a sending party (the radio tower), and can be interpreted by another hardware device which is the receiving party (your kitchen radio for instance).