API:
Application Programming Interface - a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications.
App:
Computer software, or a program, most commonly a small, specific one used for mobile devices.
AWS:
Amazon Web Services - a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon.
Beautiful Soup:
Python data extraction library for HTML and XML.
Chunk:
The largest unit of physical disk dedicated to database server data storage.
Data Encryption (Encrypted):
Translates data into another form, or code, so that only people with access to a secret key (formally called a decryption key) or password can read it.
Data Storage:
The Locker itself.
Dependent:
An individual unable to fully care for themselves. May include minors under the age of 18, or any persons who are legally recognized by the government as needing support (elderly, disabled, etc.) through power of attorney.
Docker:
An open source software platform to create, deploy and manage virtualized application containers on a common operating system (OS).
EHR:
Electronic Health Record. An electronic version of a patient’s medical history, that is maintained by the provider over time, and may include all of the key administrative clinical data relevant to that persons care under a particular provider, including demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports.
Export:
Creating a PDF for specified information.
Flask:
A web framework that allows users to build a web application by providing tools, libraries, and technologies.
GUI:
Graphical User Interface. A human-computer interface (i.e., a way for humans to interact with computers) that uses windows, icons and menus and which can be manipulated by a mouse (and often to a limited extent by a keyboard as well).
HIPAA:
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. United States legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information.
Image Recognition:
Sorts imported data into images or documents for processing.
Import:
Manually add data into the locker.
Kernel:
Class of algorithms for pattern analysis.
Legal Guardian:
An individual recognized by the United States federal government in charge of another’s health care needs.
Locker:
PatientAdvocate specific folder that is encrypted and contains the database with the patient profile, medical records, personal logs, images, and release of information waiver.
Lucene:
Full-text search library in Java which makes it easy to add search functionality to an application or website.
MariaDB:
An open source relational database management system (DBMS) that is a compatible drop-in replacement for the widely used MySQL database technology.
MD5 Checksum:
A 32-character value which represents a unique code (or fingerprint) called a hash value, which is specific to a file.
MetaData:
List of chunks that will be characterized by its last modified date, uploaded date, and total size.
ML:
Machine Learning. The scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead.
MySQL:
An open source multi-user database management system.
NLTK:
Natural language processing toolkit. It is a platform used for building Python programs that work with human language data for applying in statistical natural language processing (NLP).
Patient:
An individual receiving health care.
Portal:
A health care provider’s web-based interface.
Provider:
Medical care professional or practice.
PyTesseract:
Optical character recognition for Python.
Python:
An open-source high-level programming language designed to be easy to read and simple to implement.
Redis Cache:
an open source, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker.
Requests:
Python library for sending HTTP requests using an API.
Selenium:
Web browser automation tools for retrieving HTTP data without an API.
Tensorflow:
Deep learning powered by Google for Python.
Trends:
Tracking of patient usage/statistics.
Web Scraping:
Use of a program that uses HTTP protocols to first download an EHR portal webpage and then its retrieve data.