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/
Abbreviations
*[CVCS]: Centralised Version Control System *[decentralised]: Decentralised systems have replaced a central locus of control with a distributed mechanism. *[distributed]: Distributed systems can achieve useful work without needing a single central point of coordination. Similar to Decentralised. *[DVCS]: Distributed Version Control System *[EHR]: Electronic Health Record *[FHIR]: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, a standard for the structure of healthcare records and *[Git]: A Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) *[GP]: General Practice (the UK term for Family Medicine) *[Hacktitioner]: A bad joke I made up - it's a play on 'Hacker' and 'General Practitioner' *[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language *[IT]: Information Technology *[lossy]: A lossy transformation of data is one in which the output may have lost data compared to the input. The opposite is 'lossless'. *[NHS]: National Health Service - the taxpayer-funded universal health care system in the UK, free at the point of use, and much loved by the British. *[NPfIT]: The UK NHS National Project for IT was a plan to build a single health record across all of the NHS. It collapsed under its own weight after 12.5 billion GBP of taxpayer money had been ploughed into it. *[OpenEHR]: OpenEHR is a standard for the structure of healthcare records. *[organisation-centric]: Records which are structured so as to have the healthcare organisation as the primary focus, as opposed to being 'patient-centric'. *[RCGP]: The Royal College of General Practitioners *[W3C]: World Wide Web Consortium