Medical Terms - D
Data at Rest (DAR) - (data in storage - sometimes refers to data stored on external or auxiliary storage devices, such as hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs), but can refer, in broad terms, to data stored, when not in use, on any storage media)
Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) - (report prepared by Verizon summarizing business security incidents, responses, and breaches)
Data in Motion (DIM) - (data being transferred or moved, sometimes within a system, or over a data network, such as the Internet, or being transmitted from one location to another)
Data in Process (DIP) - (data that is currently in use or being acted on by an application)
Data in Transit (DIT) - (normally data being transferred or transmitted from one location to another over an external network, but could broadly include data being transmitted any distance)
Data in Use (DIU) - (term for data residing in primary storage devices or temporary storage areas (volatile memory, such as Random Access Memory (RAM)), memory caches, or Central Processing Unit (CPU) registers - normally shorter-term storage while used by a process)
Data Leak Prevention (DLP) - (actions an organization can take to prevent unauthorized external parties from gaining access to sensitive data - preventing a situation in which the confidentiality of data has been compromised)
Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) - (organizational process of managing data over its life, from creation through storage, use, archiving, and destruction)
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) - (actions an organization can take to prevent data from being lost or stolen (not identical to Data Leak Prevention where data is still there, but has been accessed without authorization or has been compromised))
Data Protection Act (DPA) - (United Kingdom (UK) act of 1998 which provided standards for the processing and handling of personal information)
Data Protection Directive of 1995 (DPD) - (European Union (EU) law establishing common rules for data protection among member states of the European Union - the Directive was created in the early 1990s and formally adopted in 1995 - replaced by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25, 2018)
Data Protection Officer (DPO) - (individual or position within an organization responsible for the safeguarding of personal information collected and held by an organization)
Data Security Controls (DSC) - (any controls used, or in place, to protect data in different forms or states)
Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) - (in the healthcare field, an agreement that describes access to, and expectations for, a third party's use of an organization's patient information)
Data Use Agreement (DUA) - (agreement required by the HIPAA Privacy Rule which sets out terms under which an external person or organization will have access to Protected Health Information (PHI))
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (HHS) - (federal agency overseeing Medicare/Medicaid programs and regulation of the U.S. health care system through the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, relating to the privacy and security of patient health information)
Designated Record Set (DRS) - (subset of medical records under HIPAA which contain information, in addition to health-related data, such as billing and business information - group of records that include Protected Health Information (PHI) and that is maintained, collected, used, or diseminated, by or for Covered Entities for each individual receiving care from them)
Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) - (classification system used for quality of care and reimbursement matters - basis of U.S. healthcare system of cost/payment reimbursement under Medicare plans - identifies products or services that a Medicare patient received)
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) - (coding manual used by mental healthcare professionals)
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) - (international standards relating to image format and quality for medical images - standard method for transferring images and information between medical devices, such as digital diagnostic imaging devices, to facilitate use in various vendor's electronic health records (EHRs))
Disaster Recovery (DR) - (steps an organization takes to recover from disasters or disruptions)
Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) - (organizational plan/planning to recover from/resume operations after a disaster or serious disruption)
Disclosure, Alteration, or Denial of Service (D-A-D) - (summary of the consequences of system failures relating to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C-I-A Triad) - converse side of the C-I-A Triad)
discretionary access control (DAC) - (Access model in which system access is granted at the discretion of the data owner or administrator, who can restrict or grant authorization to individuals or employee categories.)
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) - (a medical professional with a doctoral degree conferred through a U.S. medical school, who focuses on osteopathic medicine (medical field focusing on the manipulation of muscles and bones))
Drug Identification Number (DIN) - (coding system used in the Canadian health system, under the Food and Drugs Act, which identifies the product, manufacturer, and ingredients)
dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) - (data transmission method - telecommunication signaling over analog telephone lines in the voice-frequency bands - faxes sent in DTMF mode over a phone line are considered paper transmission under HIPAA Privacy Rule)