vocab: - term: patient label: Patient definition: >- An individual who receives care within an Elation Health practice. Patients have a primary physician and caregiver practice, and may have demographics, insurance, contact information, and clinical records associated with them. related: - appointment - visit_note - problem - medication - allergy - term: physician label: Physician definition: >- A licensed healthcare provider within an Elation Health practice who can author visit notes, place orders, prescribe medications, and manage patients. Identified by NPI (National Provider Identifier). related: - practice - appointment - visit_note - term: practice label: Practice definition: >- A medical practice or clinic using the Elation Health EHR platform. Each practice has physicians, staff, service locations, and patients associated with it. related: - physician - patient - service_location - term: appointment label: Appointment definition: >- A scheduled encounter between a patient and a physician at a practice. Appointments have a scheduled date, duration, reason, and status that progresses through a defined workflow (Scheduled → Checked In → Checked Out). related: - patient - physician - practice - visit_note - term: visit_note label: Visit Note definition: >- A clinical document recording the details of a patient encounter with a physician. Visit notes follow structured templates (SOAP, Simple, Complete H&P) and contain bullets organized by clinical categories. Notes must be signed by the physician. related: - patient - physician - appointment - term: problem label: Problem definition: >- A medical condition or diagnosis on a patient's problem list. Problems have a description, ICD-9/ICD-10/SNOMED coding, status (Active/Controlled/Resolved), and start/resolved dates. related: - patient - diagnosis - term: allergy label: Allergy definition: >- An adverse immune reaction a patient has to a substance (allergen). Recorded with allergen, reaction, severity, and status. Separate from drug intolerances which are non-immune adverse reactions. related: - patient - drug_intolerance - term: medication label: Medication definition: >- A drug prescribed to or taken by a patient. Includes drug name, sig (dosage instructions), dose, route, and frequency. Active medications appear on the patient's medication list. related: - patient - prescription - pharmacy - term: lab_order label: Lab Order definition: >- An order for laboratory tests placed by a physician for a patient. Lab orders are routed to lab vendors and can include multiple individual tests. Results are returned as reports. related: - patient - physician - lab_vendor - report - term: imaging_order label: Imaging Order definition: >- An order for radiological or imaging studies (X-ray, MRI, CT, ultrasound, etc.) placed by a physician for a patient. Routed to imaging centers. related: - patient - physician - imaging_center - term: referral_order label: Referral Order definition: >- A physician's referral of a patient to a specialist or other healthcare provider for evaluation or treatment of a specific condition. related: - patient - physician - term: message_thread label: Message Thread definition: >- A secure direct message conversation between practice staff members. Threads can be associated with a patient and contain one or more messages and members. related: - patient - thread_message - thread_member - term: billing_code label: Billing Code definition: >- A CPT, ICD-10, or other code used to document services rendered for insurance billing and reimbursement purposes. related: - bill - appointment - term: bill label: Bill definition: >- A billing record representing charges for services rendered to a patient. Bills reference billing codes and can be submitted to insurance for reimbursement. related: - billing_code - patient - insurance - term: insurance_company label: Insurance Company definition: >- A health insurance payer organization. Insurance companies have plans that patients enroll in, and are identified by electronic payer IDs for claims submission. related: - insurance_plan - insurance_policy - term: insurance_plan label: Insurance Plan definition: >- A specific insurance product offered by an insurance company, defining coverage terms, network, and benefits for enrolled patients. related: - insurance_company - insurance_policy - term: insurance_policy label: Insurance Policy definition: >- A patient's active enrollment in an insurance plan, including member ID, group number, relationship to subscriber, and effective dates. related: - patient - insurance_plan - insurance_company - term: vitals label: Vitals definition: >- Physiological measurements recorded during a patient visit, including blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, respiratory rate, height, weight, BMI, and oxygen saturation. related: - patient - visit_note - appointment - term: immunization label: Immunization definition: >- A vaccine administered to a patient for disease prevention. Immunizations are recorded with vaccine type, lot number, administration date, and site. related: - patient - vaccine - term: ccda label: C-CDA definition: >- Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture — a structured clinical document standard for sharing patient health information between healthcare systems, supporting care coordination and interoperability. related: - patient - clinical_document - term: oauth2 label: OAuth 2.0 definition: >- The authorization framework used by the Elation API. Applications use the client_credentials grant type to obtain access tokens. Tokens expire after 36000 seconds (10 hours) and must be refreshed. related: - scope - access_token - term: sandbox label: Sandbox Environment definition: >- A non-production testing environment at sandbox.elationemr.com used by developers to test API integrations without affecting real patient data. Separate client credentials are required for sandbox access. related: - oauth2 - term: npi label: National Provider Identifier definition: >- A 10-digit unique identifier assigned to healthcare providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Used to identify physicians and practices in claims and clinical data exchange. related: - physician - practice - term: ehr label: Electronic Health Record definition: >- A digital version of a patient's medical chart. Elation Health's EHR platform provides a primary care-focused system for managing clinical encounters, patient records, orders, prescriptions, and practice administration. related: - patient - visit_note - physician - term: fhir label: FHIR definition: >- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources — an HL7 standard for healthcare data exchange. Elation Health supports FHIR-based interoperability for patient data exchange with third-party systems. related: - ccda - patient - term: service_location label: Service Location definition: >- A physical or virtual location where healthcare services are rendered. Each appointment is associated with a service location, which includes address, phone, and CMS place of service code. related: - practice - appointment - term: webhook label: Webhook definition: >- An event notification mechanism where Elation pushes HTTP callbacks to a registered URL when specific events occur (e.g., appointment created, patient updated). Configured via event subscriptions. related: - event_subscription - app_published_event