Tech Glossary¶

A¶

API (Application Programming Interface)¶

Interface for software components to communicate.

ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition)¶

Converting speech to text.

C¶

CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment)¶

Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines.

Container¶

Lightweight, isolated runtime environment.

D¶

DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine)¶

Standard for medical imaging.

Docker¶

Container platform for packaging applications.

F¶

FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)¶

Healthcare data exchange standard.

H¶

HL7 (Health Level Seven)¶

Healthcare interoperability standards organization.

K¶

K3s¶

Lightweight Kubernetes distribution.

Kubernetes¶

Container orchestration platform.

M¶

mTLS (Mutual TLS)¶

Two-way certificate authentication.

N¶

NLP (Natural Language Processing)¶

AI for understanding human language.

O¶

OAuth¶

Authorization framework for API access.

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)¶

Converting images to text.

R¶

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)¶

AI technique combining search with generation.

REST (Representational State Transfer)¶

API architectural style.

S¶

SLA (Service Level Agreement)¶

Performance commitments.

T¶

TLS (Transport Layer Security)¶

Encryption for network communications.

TTS (Text-to-Speech)¶

Converting text to spoken audio.

V¶

VPN (Virtual Private Network)¶

Encrypted network tunnel.

Last updated: January 2025