Glossary
Common terms you'll run into on the project.
Please add new terms as you come across them. If you don't know what something means, please ask — there's no embarrassment in not knowing a term.
Admin: Anyone with access to the back-end dashboard, roles and permissions are listed below.
- Owner: Simple tech team members. Has all permissions listed below:
- View Dashboard for all Organizations
- View and Download the Overdue list (facility-wise)
- View and update Adherence follow-ups
- Manage Organizations, Facility groups and Facilities
- Manage Admins
- Manage Protocols
- Manage Users and approve / deny their access to the Simple mobile app
- Search Audit Logs
- Organization Owner: Administrators for one or more Organizations, e.g. PATH admins. Has the same permissions as Owner, but limited to the organizations they control. They also can't add organizations.
- Supervisor: Program supervisors, primarily CVHO and STS. Permissions limited to:
- View Dashboard for Facilities that they have access to
- View and Download the Overdue list (facility-wise)
- View Facilities they have access to
- Manage Users and approve / deny their access to the Simple mobile app
- Analyst: People who just need dashboard data, e.g. an epidemiologist or health expert Permissions are read-only, limited to:
- View Dashboard for Facilities they have access to (District page only, not User page
- No overdue list or management access
- Counselor: Call center employee or counselor who will follow up with the patient. Permissions limited to:
- View and Update the Overdue list
- View and Update Adherence follow-ups
- No dashboard or management access
- Blood Pressure (BP): Combination of systolic and diastolic BP readings in mm HgRecorded as Systolic/Diastolic
Ex. 120/80
- BP medicines: Name(s) and dosage(s) of medication currently prescribed to a patient
- BP passport: Physical ID provided to the patient
- BP passport code: UUID printed on BP passport as a QR code, which can be scanned to find the patient.
- BP passport short code: A 7-digit number that summarizes the UUID, which can be entered if the scanner does not work.
- Business ID: IDs other than BP passport that may be associated with a patient (such as Driving License, State Health ID etc.)
- Call list: Used interchangeably with overdue list
- Clinic: Used interchangeably with Facility
- DM: Diabetes mellitus (the clinical term for diabetes)
- Facility:
- Sub-centre
- PHC (Primary Health Centre)
- CHC (Community Health Centre)
- District Hospital (or)
- Any Public or Private Healthcare Facility
- All Facilities are identified by a Facility ID
- Users can be linked to one or more Facilities
- Facility group: Group of one or more facilities
- Users within a facility group sync patient data amongst themselves
- Users outside a facility group do not sync data amongst themselves
- Follow up list: List of all patients who have missed their appointment (including ones without a phone number). Displayed on the web dashboard.
- HTN: Hypertension
- ICMR: Indian Council of Medical Research
- IHMI/IHCI: Indian Hypertension Management Initiative, now called India Hypertension Control Initiative
- Overdue list: List of patients who have a phone number and who have missed their appointment. Displayed on the nurses' phone.
- Organization: One or more facility groups that are part of a single administrative unit
- Protocol: Name(s) and dosage(s) of medication recommended to be prescribed to a patient based on their current BP and BP history.
- Patient log: List of all patients with a BP recorded in that facility. Displayed on the nurses' phones.
- Result of a phone call made with the user's number masked:
- Completed: Connected to the patient
- Canceled: User cut the call before it was connected
- Busy: Patient’s number is giving a busy tone
- No answer: Patient did not answer
- Failed: Call failed (likely due to bad phone number or operator-level disconnections)
- Unknown: Result of the call is unknown
- Security PIN: 4 digit PIN used by the Nurse to login to the app
- User: User of Simple app (i.e. a healthcare work not a patient)
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