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    Electronic Health Record | EHR

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    An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a comprehensive, digital version of a patient’s overall health information, compiled from various clinical…

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    Digital Signature

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    A digital signature is a bit stream that represents a dataset or part of a dataset. It is generated by…

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    Dexel

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    Similarly to pixel and voxel, the term is a portmanteau of detector and element. It is the smallest discrete element…

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    Byte Ordering

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    Byte ordering specifies the order in which a sequence of bytes is stored. In Little Endian ordering, the least significant…

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    Broker

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    A broker is an interface, typically in the form of a separate gateway box, needed for a modality or PACS…

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    Big Endian

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    Big Endian is a form of byte ordering in which the least significant byte in a sequence is stored last.…

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    Authorization

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    According to HIPAA, an “authorization” is required by the Privacy Rule for uses and disclosures of protected health information not…