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An entity that captures healthcare usage data, which then can be used to profile consumer purchasing and usage patterns. Once it creates a consumer profile, a HI can act as an agent that connects the consumer to healthcare entities that offer services aligned with the consumer’s lifestyle.
Industry:Technology
A set of standardized performance measures designed to provide purchasers and consumers with the information they need to reliably compare healthcare organizations’ performance. HEDIS 99 contains measures that cover prevention, acute and chronic care — including mental health and chemical dependency — across a full range of care settings (physician office, clinics and hospital outpatient care, inpatient acute and nonacute care, and behavioral health).
Industry:Technology
HIPAA, which became effective in August 1997, calls for electronic data interchange (EDI) use in medical transactions and also calls for protecting patient healthcare information. Enterprises face fines of up to $250,000 and 10 years imprisonment for wrongfully disclosing patient information.
Industry:Technology
A health information exchange (HIE) is a regional collaboration among independent healthcare organizations for sharing clinical information. Often, administrative information is shared as well. HIEs may be categorized in terms of their approach to governance. In some countries, they may be run by a governmental agency. Other HIEs may be run by nonprofit corporations with a board of governors that represent community stakeholders. Still others are lines of business of for-profit vendors. A final form of HIE is funded and controlled by healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) to meet their own business concerns, rather than being neutral to all community stakeholders.
Industry:Technology
Head-up displays (HUDs) use light-emitting diode (LED) or liquid crystal display (LCD) projection technology to display customizable information and images within a driver’s line of vision (e.g., speed data, navigation and fuel efficiency). The technology has been used extensively in military applications for many decades.
Industry:Technology
Head-mounted displays (HMDs) are small displays or projection technology integrated into eyeglasses or mounted on a helmet or hat. Heads-up displays are a type of HMD that does not block the user’s vision, but superimposes the image on the user’s view of the real world. An emerging form of heads-up display is a retinal display that “paints” a picture directly on the sensitive part of the user’s retina. Although the image appears to be on a screen at the user’s ideal viewing distance, there is no actual screen in front of the user, just special optics (for example, modified eyeglasses) that reflect the image back into the eye. Other heads-up displays that are not worn by the user but are projected on a surface (for example, on a car or plane windshield) are not covered in this discussion. Some HMDs incorporate motion sensors to determine direction and movement (for example, to provide context-sensitive geographic information) or as the interface to an immersive virtual reality application.
Industry:Technology
These are preventive and remedial services that physically repair or optimize hardware, including basic installation, contract maintenance and per-incident repair — both on-site and at a centralized repair depot. Hardware support also includes telephone technical troubleshooting and assistance for setup and all fee-based hardware warranty upgrades. Exclusive of parts bundled into maintenance contracts, sales of all parts used to repair high-tech equipment in carry-in, mail-in or per-incident on-site delivery models, or purchased by the internal staff to perform the repair, are included.
The segments covered in the hardware maintenance and support services are defined in the following sections. This segmentation maps to Gartner’s high-level segmentation for computing and telecom hardware products.
Industry:Technology
Maintenance services include both hardware maintenance and support services, and network software maintenance and support services.
Hardware maintenance and support services are preventive and remedial services that physically repair or optimize hardware, including contract maintenance and per-incident repair. Hardware support also includes online and telephone technical troubleshooting and assistance for setup, and all fee-based hardware warranty upgrades.
Sales of all parts are also included, exclusive of parts bundled with maintenance contracts. This segment includes only external customer spending on these services.
Software maintenance and support services include long-term and pay-as-you-go (incident-based) support contracts. Software support contracts include remote troubleshooting and support provided via the telephone and online channels, as well as installation assistance and basic usability assistance. In some cases, software support services may include new product installation services, installation of product updates, migrations for major releases of software and other types of proactive or reactive on-site services. Software products and technologies covered under this category include operating systems and infrastructure software. Software support services do not include the purchase of subscriptions that provide entitlement and rights to use future minor versions (point releases) or future major releases of software.
Industry:Technology
Haptics use tactile interfaces (for example, steering wheels and seats) to provide touch or force feedback as part of the user interface (UI) in vehicles (for example, a vibrating seat to inform driver of a pedestrian about to cross the street). Haptic technology has the potential to add new forms of driver communication to a vehicle, and to improve the overall usability of vehicles and their information applications.
Industry:Technology
Haptics is a tactile or force-feedback technology that leverages a person’s sense of touch by applying vibrations and/or motion to the user’s fingertips. This stimulation can assist the technology in the development of virtual objects on the device screen. In its broad sense, haptics can be any system that incorporates tactile feedback and vibrates through a sense of touch.
Industry:Technology
