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'''[[Biodiversity informatics]]''' is the application of informatics techniques to biodiversity [[information]] for improved management, presentation, discovery, exploration, and analysis. It typically builds on a foundation of taxonomic, biogeographic, and synecologic information stored in digital form, which, with the application of modern computer techniques, can yield new ways to view and analyze existing information, as well as predictive models for information that does not yet exist. Biodiversity informatics has also been described by others as "the creation, integration, analysis, and understanding of information regarding biological diversity" and a field of science "that brings information science and technologies to bear on the data and information generated by the study of organisms, their genes, and their interactions."
A '''medical practice management system''' (also '''practice management system''' or '''PMS''') is a software-based information and enterprise management tool for physician offices that offers a set of key features that support an individual or group medical practice's operations. Those key features include — but are not limited to — appointment scheduling, patient registration, procedure posting, insurance billing, patient billing, payment posting, data and file maintenance, and reporting.  


According to correspondence reproduced by Walter Berendsohn, the term "biodiversity informatics" was coined by John Whiting in 1992 to cover the activities of an entity known as the Canadian Biodiversity Informatics Consortium (CBIC), a group involved with fusing basic biodiversity information with environmental economics and geospatial information. Subsequently it appears to have lost at least some connection with the geospatial world, becoming more closely associated with the computerized management of biodiversity information. ('''[[Biodiversity informatics|Full article...]]''')<br />
The PMS has traditionally been a stand-alone application, installed on computers in the physician office. But like [[laboratory information management systems]], [[hospital information systems]], and other informatics software, trends have shifted to both web-based and cloud-based access to PMS applications. Cloud-based PMSs have been around at least since 2011, and they have become more attractive for several reasons, including the ease of letting the vendor maintain and update the technology from their end, the need for less hardware, and the convenience of accessing the system from anywhere. ('''[[Medical practice management system|Full article...]]''')<br />


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''Recently featured'': [[American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board]], [[Environmental informatics]], [[Application programming interface]]
''Recently featured'': [[Biodiversity informatics]], [[American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board]], [[Environmental informatics]]

Revision as of 16:16, 22 June 2015

Doctor reviewing pdq.jpg

A medical practice management system (also practice management system or PMS) is a software-based information and enterprise management tool for physician offices that offers a set of key features that support an individual or group medical practice's operations. Those key features include — but are not limited to — appointment scheduling, patient registration, procedure posting, insurance billing, patient billing, payment posting, data and file maintenance, and reporting.

The PMS has traditionally been a stand-alone application, installed on computers in the physician office. But like laboratory information management systems, hospital information systems, and other informatics software, trends have shifted to both web-based and cloud-based access to PMS applications. Cloud-based PMSs have been around at least since 2011, and they have become more attractive for several reasons, including the ease of letting the vendor maintain and update the technology from their end, the need for less hardware, and the convenience of accessing the system from anywhere. (Full article...)


Recently featured: Biodiversity informatics, American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board, Environmental informatics

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