Consumer health informatics is the branch of medical informatics that analyses consumers ' needs for information ; studies and implements methods of making information accessible to consumers ; and models and integrates consumers ' preferences into medical information systems.

* Consumer health informatics: use of electronic resources on medical topics by healthy individuals or patients ;

# Lewis D, Eysenbach G, Kukafka R, Stavri PZ, Jimison H. Consumer health informatics: informing consumers and improving health care.

CNBC is the only NBC network whose abbreviation, while containing NBC, stands for another name: the Consumer News and Business Channel.

Microsoft has stated that the " CE " is not an intentional initialism, but many people believe CE stands for " Consumer Electronics " or " Compact Edition ".

Consumer communities have suffered at the hands of the productive interests.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

The 7800 was initially released in southern California in June 1984, following an announcement on May 21, 1984 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show.

Epyx first showed the Handy system at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) in January 1989.

The Irish health system, being administered centrally by the Health Service Executive, is seen to be poor by comparison to other countries in Europe, ranking outside expected levels at 25th according to the Euro Health Consumer Index 2006.

A new advertising campaign was aired in time for the 1982 Christmas season, and the ECS itself was shown to the public at the January 1983 Consumer Electronic Show ( CES ) in Las Vegas.

Consumer Price inflation have also curtailed since 2008, when Nicaragua's inflation rate hovered at 19. 82 %.

Nintendo of America unveiled the Virtual Boy at the Consumer Electronics Show on 6 January 1995.

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton.

There were plans to release the G7400 in the United States as the Odyssey³ and later as the Odyssey³ Command Center ; the system was demonstrated at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show and some prototypes have been found.

Consumer patterns were also shifting at this time, as purchasing power was becoming stronger and more accessible to a wider range of families.

Consumer equipment, and in particular compact audio cassette recorders have the bias set at a compromise level ( usually a little higher ) to give good frequency response and acceptably low distortion.

After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would ship " In Q1 ," ( the last day of which is 31 March ) despite an estimated four to five months of work remaining to complete the device.

* January – The world's first personal all-in-one computer ( keyboard / screen / tape storage ), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago

In the US following passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the U. S., Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( CFTC ) has proposed regulations aimed at limiting speculation in futures markets by instituting position limits.

It was first shown, privately, at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show in 1977, and soon the company was receiving 50 calls a day from dealers wanting to sell the computer.

The preliminary results from the Consumer Confidence Survey are released on the last Tuesday of each month at 10am EST.

Consumer confidence and sentiment surveys measure how people are doing financially, how they look at the overall economy of the country or business conditions in the country, if they think that the government is doing a good or a poor job and if people think that it is a good or a bad time to buy a car or to buy or sell a house.

The sample aims at capturing the major contributors to the personal consumption component of the GDP. The BluFin Consumer Confidence Index was developed by a team of financial economists and statisticians led

In September 2011, Indonesia sets world record in the KADIN-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Index at 146. 8, an all time high.

Although these figures are greater than the 1962 figure at which the Mona Lisa was valued, the comparison does not account for the change in prices due to inflation – $ 100 million in 1962 is approximately $ 720 million in 2010 when adjusted for inflation using the US Consumer Price Index.

Palm announced the webOS operating system and Palm Pre smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 8, 2009, and released on June 6, 2009 with Sprint.

Financial capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power, i. e., Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting – CIPPA – in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate at all levels of inflation and deflation ( see the original Framework ( 1989 ), Par 104 ( a )) Conceptual Framework ( 2010 ), Par.

Stable measuring unit assumption: financial capital maintenance in nominal monetary units or traditional Historical cost accounting only under the traditional Historical Cost paradigm ; i. e., accountants consider changes in the purchasing power of the functional currency up to but excluding 26 % per annum for three years in a row ( which would be 100 % cumulative inflation over three years or hyperinflation as defined in IAS 29 ) as immaterial or not sufficiently important for them to choose Capital Maintenance in units of constant purchasing power in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting at all levels of inflation and deflation as authorized in IFRS in the original Framework ( 1989 ), Par 104 ( a ) Conceptual Framework ( 2010 ), Par.

Units of constant purchasing power: capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power at all levels of inflation and deflation in terms of a Daily Consumer Price Index or daily rate ( Constant Item Purchasing Power Accounting ) only under the Capital Maintenance in Units of Constant Purchasing Power paradigm ; i. e. the total rejection of the stable measuring unit assumption at all levels of inflation and deflation.

Consumer Safety Officers, more commonly called Investigators, are the individuals who inspect production and warehousing facilities, investigate complaints, illnesses, or outbreaks, and review documentation in the case of medical devices, drugs, biological products, and other items where it may be difficult to conduct a physical examination or take a physical sample of the product.

The FDA frequently works in conjunction with other federal agencies including the Department of Agriculture, Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border Protection, and Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Consumer perception of foods treated with irradiation is more negative than those processed by other means.

GE then sold the rights to make RCA-and GE-branded televisions and other consumer electronics products in 1988 to the French Thomson Consumer Electronics, in exchange for some of Thomson's medical businesses.

The Crown's immunity may also apply to other parties in certain circumstances: see Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Baxter Healthcare.

Furthermore, the NOM establishes the technical specifications and legal requirements for the protection of the Appellation of Origin of " Tequila ," in accordance with the current General Declaration of Protection of the Appellation of Origin of " Tequila ," the Law, the Industrial Property Law, the Federal Consumer Protection Law and other related legal provisions.

The Hyundai Elantra was Consumer Reports ' top-ranked 2008 vehicle among 19 other compacts and small family cars, beating out the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius.

Over the years, many academic settings have adopted other names for the study of home economics, such as Human Sciences, Human Ecology, and Family and Consumer Sciences.

In 1994, the AMA, American Lung Association, US EPA and US Consumer Product Safety Commission published a booklet on indoor air pollution that discusses MCS, among other issues.

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 has clarified this area of concern by making changes to the U. S. Bankruptcy Code that include, along with many other reforms, language imposing a means test for Chapter 7 cases.

Prior to E3, most game publishers went to other trade shows to display new products, including the Consumer Electronics Show and the European Computer Trade Show.

From January 2000 through September 2005, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ( CPSC ) received 50 reports of incidents involving finger amputations, lacerations, and other severe injuries from paper shredders.

Commonly, remote controls are Consumer IR devices used to issue commands from a distance to televisions or other consumer electronics such as stereo systems, DVD players and dimmers.

It has many programs that include, Art, Band, Spanish, Computer tech, and Family and Consumer sciences along with the other basic classes that public schools provide.

This proposal was initiated and developed by an interagency group that included the Council of Economic Advisors ( represented by Hendrik Houthakker and Thomas Gale Moore ), White House Office of Consumer Affairs ( represented by Jack Pearce ), Department of Justice, Department of Transportation, Department of Labor, and other agencies.

The Consumer Federation of America and other commentators suggested securities firms had avoided becoming “ financial holding companies ” because they wanted to avoid Federal Reserve supervision as bank holding companies.

Product markets tend to focus on the comparison of sellers ' products with other sellers ' products-the adversarial process itself making trustworthy information, e. g. as published in Consumer Reports or the Better Business Bureau, hard to compile and to obtain.

* March 2005: EPIC urged lawmakers to regulate Choicepoint and other data brokers in testimony before the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection.

This is a matter for policy makers and other users of the Consumer Price Index.

* Consumer ( food chain ), an organism that lives off other organisms

On July 25, 2006, GE Consumer Finance released a Char Custom credit card, which receives three times as many bonus points per 1000 yen spent compared to their other Gundam-related credit cards.

However before the other toys could be distributed McDonald's ceased distribution and promotion of Playmobil at its restaurants after tests showed that the toy failed to comply with Consumer Product Safety Commission standards designed to prevent children under three from choking on dangerous items.

Consumer and commercial equipment differ in a number of ways ; commercial gear is generally ruggedized, with metal cases, and often has only a few specific frequencies programmed into it ( often, though not always, with a computer or other outside programming device ; older units can simply swap crystals ), since a given business or public safety agent must often abide by a specific frequency allocation.

Consumer gear, on the other hand, is generally made to be small, lightweight, and capable of accessing any channel within the specified band, not just a subset of assigned channels.