Definition of terms and abbreviations used throughout this website.

ASP (Application Service Provider)
An organization (usually a business) that runs one or more applications on their own servers and provides (usually for a fee) access to others.

Browser
A Client program (software) that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources.

Client
A software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a Server software program on another computer, often across a great distance.

EHR
Electronic Health Record

EMR
Electronic Medical Record

EPOS
Electronic Point of Sale

HCP
Health Care Professional

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
FAQs are documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject.

ISP
Internet Service Provider

PMS
Practice Management System

Security Certificate
A chunk of information that is used by the SSL protocol to establish a secure connection.

Server
A computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers.

SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
A protocol designed by Netscape Communications to enable encrypted, authenticated communications across the Internet.

Web page
A document designed for viewing in a web browser. Typically written in HTML. A web site is made up of one or more web pages.

Website
The entire collection of web pages and other information (such as images, sound, and video files, etc.) that are made available through what appears to users as a single web server.