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Tall Man

A technique of lettering that helps medical professionals detect drugs that could be confused because of similarly spelled names. It uses alternating upper- and lower-case spelling of drug names to visually distinguish look-alike, sound-alike medication names. The confusion of drug names accounts for approximately 15% of all reported medication errors (e.g., hydrALAZINE/hydrOXYzine, and glipiZIDE/glyBURIDE).

Tapered Order

An order for which a drug dose is increased or decreased over a period of time until the desired end dose is achieved. For example, a drug might have been ordered in the following sequence: 0.5mg for 5 days, then 1mg for 5 days, then 2mg for 5 days, then 4mg after that for the remainder of therapy.

Task

A functional term for a piece of work performed to achieve an end-user goal.

TBD

To Be Determined

TCO

Total Cost of Ownership

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TeamPlay TM

The software application used to uniquely identify work units and status of the work.

Technical Services Project Repository (TSPR)

The official Web site to store and display information about projects within Office of Enterprise Development.

Telemedicine

The use of telecommunications technology as a medium to provide medical services to sites that are at a distance from the Provider. Telemedicine telecommunications link Providers and Patients together from diverse geographic locations, and they transmit text and images for medical consultation and treatment.

Template

An object with a pre-set format. The pre-set format can be used as a starting point for a particular application (e.g., a template for entering chemo orders, a template for requesting to add drugs to EPL). The pre-set format can be used to enforce a specific process for completing an action (for quality purposes and/or for policy purposes.)

Terminology Mediation

A method of mapping local terms to an enterprise-wide terminology reference. This is provided by ERT for the PRE system.

Test Case

A defined set of conditions used by a tester to exercise a system under development to determine if a requirement or use case is satisfied.

Test Environment

Equipment (e.g., servers, hardware) dedicated to test a system under development.

Test Input

Information (e.g., data) that must be in place to execute a test case.

Test Plan

A document that describes the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of intended test activities.

TFI

Tricare Fiscal Intermediary

Therapeutic Alternatives

The drug products differing in composition or in their basic drug entity, but of the same pharmacological and/or therapeutic class, which are considered to have very similar pharmacological and therapeutic activities and adverse reactions when administered to Patients in therapeutically equivalent doses.

Therapeutic Class

The general classification of medication in which a product is categorized. Compounds are classified into classes, chemical or functional (Therapeutic), according to their structure and function. A particular compound may belong to one or more classes and are categorized both structurally and functionally. To date, some compounds have not been classified.

Therapeutic Equivalence

The drug products that, when administered to the same person in the same dosage regimen, provide essentially the same therapeutic effect or toxicity. Bioequivalent products are expected to be therapeutically equivalent.

Therapeutic Interchange

The authorized exchange of various therapeutic alternates by Pharmacists under arrangement between Pharmacists and Orderers who have previously established written guidelines or protocols within a formulary system and jointly agreed on conditions for interchange or who give permission individually at the time of exchange.

Thick Client

A software product that does as much processing as possible at the client side and passes only the data required for communication and archival storage to the server entities.

Thin Client

A software product that does most of its processing on a central server with as little hardware and software as possible at the user’s site. Ideally the user will have only a screen, keyboard, a pointing device (if needed), and enough computing power to handle display and communications.

Third-Party Pharmacy

Those pharmacies that are not directly affiliated with the VA. They are the Walgreens, CVS, and other commercial and governmental pharmacies not directly under the control of the VA.

Thread

An operating system term for an instance of concurrent execution within a process.

TID

Three Times a Day

Tier

A hardware term for a physical grouping of the components within the system that are separated by physical locality.

TIU

Text Integration Utility

TOAD

Tool for Oracle Application Development

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

A process that helps a company determine whether it wins or loses from specific technology implementations. It is used to look at the overall impact of the implementation. Cost is the numerator. The denominator might be service, customer satisfaction, quality levels, or productivity. Although cost-of-ownership factors vary according to technology and environment, costs are typically broken out into categories such as capital costs, technical support, administration, and end-user operations.

Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)

The intravenous administration of the total nutrient requirements of the Patient. The term TPN is also used to mean the solution compounded to provide those requirements. See glossary term Hyperalimentation.

Total Stock

The total amount of on-hand inventory (e.g., medications, supplies).

TPB

Transitional Pharmacy Benefit

TPN

Total Parenteral Nutrition

TQS

Terminology Query Service

TR-LV&HW

Testing Requirements for Legacy-VistA and HealtheVet-VistA

Trade Name

A name (i.e., brand name) assigned to a generic product to distinguish it as one produced and sold by a specific manufacturer.

Transfer Order (Inventory)

An internal order to allow the transfer of inventory items within the local organization from one inventory location to another. It allows the pharmacy to manage inventory such as moving items from one ward to another.

Transport CS

The process of moving of a CS inside the facility.

Transport Invoice

A list of CS items that are being moved from one location to another within the same facility. It can be a single sealed package containing one or more CS items or multiple sealed packages. The Transport Invoice exists in the system as a list of CS items that has a custodian, origin, and destination.

Treatment

The provision, coordination, or management of healthcare or related services by one or more healthcare Providers. This includes the coordination of healthcare by a healthcare Provider with a third party, consultation between Providers relating to a Patient, and the referral of a Patient for healthcare from one healthcare Provider to another.

TRM/SP

Technical Reference Model and Standards Profile

TSEC

Trade Study Evaluation Criteria

TSPR

Technical Services Project Repository

TSS

Trade Study Scenarios

TUID

Temporary Unique Identifier



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