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Glossary
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute. A private, non-profit organization that facilitates the development of standards for the information processing industry in the U.S.
- CMS
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to ensure effective, up-to-date health care coverage and to promote quality care for beneficiaries.
- CSV
- Comma Separated Values. A data format where field values are of variable length and are delimited by commas.
- DDL
- Data Definition Language. DDL consists of SQL statements that support the definition or declaration of database objects such as tables and indexes.
- Denormalized
- A data structure where redundant or multiple occurrence values are stored in a single table.
- DML
- Data Manipulation Language. DML consists of SQL statements that create or change data within a table.
- Flat Structure
- A denormalized file structure where each line in the file represents a row of data.
- MySQL
- An open source relational database management system (MySQL web site).
- Normalized
- A data structure where redundant or multiple occurrence values exist in separate tables related to each other on common keys.
- NPI
- National Provider Identifier. Providers who wish to submit claims to Medicare/Medicaid must obtain an NPI (National Provider Identifier) and submit demographic data.
- NPPES
- National Plan and Provider Enumeration System. A database of medical providers published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Providers who wish to submit
claims to Medicare/Medicaid must obtain an NPI (National Provider Identifier) and submit demographic data.
- RDBMS
- Relational Database Management System. A database system that allows data in different tables to be related and queried based on keys common to both tables.
- Relational Structure
- A data structure where redundant or multiple occurrence values exist in separate tables related to each other on common keys.
- SQL
- Structured Query Language. A series of ANSI standards that define a language for querying relational databases.