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Glossary

GitEHR-specific concepts

  • Organisation-centric – Records structured around the healthcare organisation rather than the patient.
  • Patient-centric – Records structured around one patient, independent of any single organisation.
  • Hacktitioner – A light‑hearted term combining “hacker” and “general practitioner”.
  • Lossy – A transformation where output may omit information present in the input.

External references

  • Git – https://git-scm.com/
  • Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_version_control
  • Centralised Version Control System (CVCS) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control#Centralized_systems
  • Electronic Health Record (EHR) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record
  • FHIR – https://www.hl7.org/fhir/
  • OpenEHR – https://www.openehr.org/
  • NHS – https://www.nhs.uk/
  • NPfIT – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Programme_for_Information_Technology
  • RCGP – https://www.rcgp.org.uk/
  • W3C – https://www.w3.org/