.. _appendix-glossary:glossary: Glossary ======== .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-icd-10-pcs: ICD-10-PCS ---------- The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is classification standard for surgical procedures proposed by the a World Health Organization (WHO). See :ref:`userguide-modules-surgery:surgery`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-company: Company ------- A company is a legal entity that has employees. You may define hierarchical company structures by assigning a parent company. The company sets the currency as well as header and footer texts for reports. GNU Health users belong to a company as well. Technically speaking, a company is an extension of a party. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-ecg: ECG --- Short for electrocardiography or electrocardiogram. See :ref:`userguide-modules-icu:intensive_care_unit`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-employee: Employee -------- An employee is a person that works for a company. An employee record in GNU health simply links a person to a company. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-glasgow_coma_scale: Glasgow Coma Scale ------------------ The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is a standard to evaluate the level of consciousness of neurological patients. See :ref:`userguide-modules-icu:intensive_care_unit`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-gsc: GSC --- Short for Glasgow Coma Scale. See :ref:`userguide-modules-icu:intensive_care_unit`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-icu: ICU --- Short for :ref:`userguide-modules-icu:intensive_care_unit`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-inventory: Inventory --------- An inventory is a list of all items in stock at a given time. It allows to control and update the quantities of the products in stock. See :ref:`userguide-modules-stockmanagement:stock_management`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-module: Module ------ GNU Health consists of many modules which add specific functionality to the system. Depending on the needs of your health institution, you may or may not install certain modules. See :ref:`techguide-development-models:models`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-move: Move ---- A move documents the relocation of a certain amount of a single product. Several moves are grouped to shipments. See :ref:`userguide-modules-stockmanagement:stock_management`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-party: Party ----- Parties are used to represent organisations and people in GNU Health. A party is a generic concept and needs to be specified when you create one. Examples for parties are companies, health institutions, patients, and health professionals. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-patient: Patient ------- A patient is a person that gets treatment in a health institution. Technically speaking, a patient is an extension of a party that is defined as *Person* and *Patient*. See :ref:`userguide-patientmanagement-patientmanagement:introduction_to_patient_management`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-pediatrics_symptom_checklist: Pediatrics Symptom Checklist ---------------------------- The Pediatrics Symptom Checklist (PSC) is an evaluation standard for children. See :ref:`userguide-modules-pediatrics:pediatrics`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-person: Person ------ A person is a human being. Persons can be further specified as patients or health professionals. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-person_unique_identification_number: Person Unique Identification Number ----------------------------------- The Person Unique Identification Number (or PUID for short) is the unique identifier for every person stored in the system. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-product: Product ------- A product can be a physical product that a company owns or sells, but it can also be a service (i.e. a medical treatment, a test in a laboratory). Each product has a price and is the basic building block of billing in GNU Health. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-psc: PSC --- Short for Pediatrics Symptom Checklist. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-puid: PUID ----- Short for Person Unique Identification Number. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-qr_code: QR Code ------- A Quick Response Code (or QR Code for short) is a machine readable tag that stores information like an ID, a URL, or other information. QR codes can be decoded with most smartphones or tablets as long as they have a built-in camera and an appropriate app. In GNU Health, QR codes are used for patient ID cards (see :ref:`userguide-patientmanagement-patientmanagement:introduction_to_patient_management-printing_a_patient_id_card`) and newborn wristbands (see :ref:`userguide-modules-pediatrics:pediatrics`). .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-shipment: Shipment -------- A shipment is a collection of moves and documents the relocation of physical products. There are *Supplier Shipments,* *Customer Shipments* and *Internal Shipments*. See :ref:`userguide-modules-stockmanagement:stock_management`. .. _appendix-glossary:glossary-user: User ---- A user is someone who uses GNU Health. A user record has at least a user name and a password. A user belongs to a company and can be linked to one or more employees who are logging into the system with that user. Access rights of a user are defined by assigning the user to one or more user groups. The language of the GNU Health user interface is defined on the user level as well. See :ref:`userguide-healthcenter-accessmanagement:access_management`.