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).
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.
A functional term for a piece of work performed to achieve an end-user goal.
To Be Determined
Total Cost of Ownership
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
The software application used to uniquely identify work units and status of the work.
The official Web site to store and display information about projects within Office of Enterprise Development.
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.
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.)
A method of mapping local terms to an enterprise-wide terminology reference. This is provided by ERT for the PRE system.
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.
Equipment (e.g., servers, hardware) dedicated to test a system under development.
Information (e.g., data) that must be in place to execute a test case.
A document that describes the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of intended test activities.
Tricare Fiscal Intermediary
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An operating system term for an instance of concurrent execution within a process.
Three Times a Day
A hardware term for a physical grouping of the components within the system that are separated by physical locality.
Text Integration Utility
Tool for Oracle Application Development
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.
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.
The total amount of on-hand inventory (e.g., medications, supplies).
Transitional Pharmacy Benefit
Total Parenteral Nutrition
Terminology Query Service
Testing Requirements for Legacy-VistA and HealtheVet-VistA
A name (i.e., brand name) assigned to a generic product to distinguish it as one produced and sold by a specific manufacturer.
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.
The process of moving of a CS inside the facility.
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.
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.
Technical Reference Model and Standards Profile
Trade Study Evaluation Criteria
Technical Services Project Repository
Trade Study Scenarios
Temporary Unique Identifier