A plain-language glossary.

Clinical decision support (CDS)

Software that brings relevant clinical knowledge to a clinician at the moment of care, so that a decision is informed by the approved evidence rather than by recall alone.

Care gap

The difference between the care a patient should have received under an approved guideline and the care actually recorded. A care gap is closed when the action is taken and documented, not when it is flagged.

Explainable clinical decision support

Decision support that shows its reasoning — the rule that fired, its version, the guideline behind it and the patient data that triggered it — so a clinician can judge it and a reviewer can reconstruct it later.

Clinical governance

The framework through which an organisation stays accountable for the quality of the care it delivers: who approves clinical rules, who certifies them, how they are released, and how their effect is measured.

Clinical rule versioning

Treating a clinical rule as a controlled artefact: drafted, certified, released, superseded and retired under an explicit version, so it is always possible to say which logic applied to a given patient on a given day.

Health data sovereignty

The principle that a country’s health data — and the clinical rules applied to it — remain under national control, rather than under the control of a vendor or a jurisdiction elsewhere.

Population health intelligence

Measurement of health and care across a defined population, built from the same clinical records used at the point of care, so that what leadership sees and what a clinician sees cannot diverge.

Interoperability (FHIR)

The ability of separate health systems to exchange clinical data in a shared, structured format. FHIR is the prevailing standard for doing so, and is how Ravisant reads the record you already keep.