Medical Terms - U
Unfair Competition Law (UCS) - (California law dealing with unfair or deceptive business practices)
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) - (a biomedical thesaurus - Metathesaurus - developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NML) that attempts to map data andj language across standards )
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) - (a battery that provides power to a system in the event of a power failure; usually includes an alerting mechanism to signal the system to shut down "gracefully" to preserve the integrity of programs and data)
unique device identifier (UDI) - (Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposal for a system of medical device identification that would improve evaluation of medical devices and support recalls)
User-Based Access Control (UBAC) - (A form of access control that governs system access to information based on a user's identity as authorized by the user's manager or supervisor.)