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- OHC
- Open Healthcare Network
- The nonprofit foundation that builds and stewards CARE, an open operating system for healthcare.
- CARE
- Open Healthcare Network's flagship product: an open-source, FHIR-native electronic medical record (EMR) and healthcare operating system.
- CARE Core
- The stable platform slab of CARE, providing reusable primitives such as patients, facilities, encounters, orders and observations.
- EMR
- Electronic Medical Record — the digital record of a patient's clinical information.
- HMIS
- Hospital Management Information System — software covering registration, encounters, labs, pharmacy, billing and reporting.
- FHIR
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources — an HL7 standard for exchanging healthcare data. CARE is built on FHIR R5.
- SNOMED CT
- A comprehensive clinical terminology used to code diagnoses, findings and procedures.
- LOINC
- Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes — a standard for identifying laboratory and clinical observations.
- UCUM
- Unified Code for Units of Measure — a standard for encoding measurement units in health data.
- ICD-10
- The 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases, used for coding diagnoses.
- ABDM
- Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission — India's national digital health ecosystem and interoperability rails.
- DPG
- Digital Public Good
- Open-source software, data, or content that advances the UN Sustainable Development Goals; CARE is listed in the DPG registry.
- TeleICU
- A hub-and-spoke model of critical care where specialists remotely support intensive care units in other facilities.
- 10BedICU
- A program that has deployed 200+ tele-ICUs in remote districts of India, built on CARE.