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Definition of Terms

Computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions.

Database is a system intended to organize, store, and retrieve large amounts of data easily.

Information raw data that has been verified to be accurate and timely, is specific and organized for a purpose, is presented within a context that gives it meaning and relevance, and which leads to increase in understanding and decrease in uncertainty.

Monitoring to keep records or maintain order.

Record includes patient’s basic information and treatments.

Record Keeping is the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.

Services is Intangible products that are not goods (tangible products), such as accounting, banking, cleaning, consultancy, education, insurance, know how, medical treatment, transportation.

Storage holds information, process information, or both

System is a Set of detailed methods, procedures, and routines established or formulated to carry out a specific activity, perform a duty, or solve a problem.

Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or create an artistic perspective. 

Therapy is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis.

Transactions comprise a unit of work performed within a database management system (or similar system) against a database, and treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions. 

Treatment is a type of therapy used to remedy a health problem