# Health Tech Glossary

> Every health tech term by part: business, records and interoperability, privacy, revenue cycle, practices, care delivery, payers, pharma and platform.

Health care borrows its words from medicine, insurance, law and a dozen standards bodies, and the same word shifts with context: a claim is a bill to a payer and an assertion in a FHIR resource, an encounter is a visit to a clinician and a row a billing system can't post without, and a patient is a person to a physician and an animal to a veterinarian (whose client is the owner). Entries are grouped by the part of the volume that explains them, alphabetized within each group, and each is one line and a link to the chapter that owns the idea. The volume's own names for the core records are the ones in [The Core Data Model](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/health-tech/health-tech-business#the-core-data-model).

## Parts

- [The Business](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/health-tech/glossary/the-business): 41 terms
- [Records and Interoperability](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/health-tech/glossary/records-and-interoperability): 75 terms
- [Rules of the Record](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/health-tech/glossary/rules-of-the-record): 25 terms
- [Revenue Cycle](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/health-tech/glossary/revenue-cycle): 56 terms
- [Practices and Patient Engagement](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/health-tech/glossary/practices-and-patient-engagement): 26 terms
- [Care Delivery](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/health-tech/glossary/care-delivery): 40 terms
- [Running the Platform](https://www.syntaqx.com/books/health-tech/glossary/running-the-platform): 30 terms

## References

**Reference**

- [HL7 FHIR R4: Resource index](https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/resourcelist.html), the FHIR resources the core data model maps to
- [CMS: Adopted standards and operating rules](https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/burden-reduction/administrative-simplification/hipaa/adopted-standards-operating-rules), the HIPAA transaction standards
- [45 CFR 160.103: Definitions](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/160.103), covered entity, business associate and protected health information
- [HHS OCR: Guidance regarding methods for de-identification](https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/de-identification/index.html), Safe Harbor and Expert Determination
- [HFMA: MAP Keys](https://www.hfma.org/industry-initiatives/map-keys/), the revenue cycle KPIs
- [Federal Register: HTI-5 final rule (October 28, 2026)](https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-21943), decision support source attributes
- [45 CFR 164.526: Amendment of protected health information (Cornell LII)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/164.526), the 60-day amendment deadline and one 30-day extension
- [NLM: Health Data Standards and Terminologies tutorial, HL7](https://www.nlm.nih.gov/oet/ed/healthdatastandards/03-300.html), 95% of US health care organizations using HL7 v2 in 2024
- [RCE: Designated QHINs](https://rce.sequoiaproject.org/designated-qhins/), the 11 designated QHINs
- [FDA: National Drug Code Directory](https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-approvals-and-databases/national-drug-code-directory), the 12-digit NDC effective March 7, 2033

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