Health Information Network (HIN): An electronic system that uses telecommunications devices to link various healthcare entities within a geographic region in order to exchange patient, clinical, and financial information in an effort to reduce costs and practice better medicine.

 

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Network: A connecting system which allows simultaneous telecasting of a single origination by a number of stations.

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National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA): The federal government's executive branch advisory committee for telecommunications.

Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA): A federal act which prohibits group health plans that offer mental health benefits from applying more restrictive limits on coverage for mental illness than for physical illness.

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Network Basic Input - Output System (NetBIOS): A commonly used networking protocol originally developed for LANs. Operates on the Session and Transport layers of the OSI model, so doesn't make use of physical network characteristics.