Glossary of terms for Healthcare and 5G Standardisation
The main sources on the 3GPP side are: TS 22.104 and TS 22.261. The main source on EU regulations is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
Biometric data: Personal data resulting from specific technical processing relating to the physical, physiological or behavioural characteristics of a natural person, which allow or confirm the unique identification of that natural person, such as facial images or dactyloscopic data. Source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 ).
Clock synchronicity: The maximum allowed time offset within a synchronisation domain between the master clock and any individual UE (User Equipment) clock. Key Performance Indicator for synchronicity. Source: Clause 3.1 in 3GPP TS 22.104.
Clock synchronisation service: The service to align otherwise independent user-specific UE clocks. Source: Clause 3.1 in 3GPP TS 22.104.
Communication service availability: Percentage value of the amount of time the end-to-end communication service is delivered according to an agreed QoS, divided by the amount of time the system is expected to deliver the end-to-end service according to the specification in a specific area. The end point is assumed to be the communication service interface. The service is deemed unavailable if related QoS requirements are not met. Regarding availability requirements, the system is deemed unavailable if an expected message is not received within a specified time. At minimum, this is the sum of maximum allowed end-to-end latency and servival time. Source: Clause 3.1 in 3GPP TS 22.261.
Communication service reliability: Ability of the communication service to perform as required for a given time interval, under given conditions. Conditions include aspects affecting reliability, e.g. mode of operation, stress levels, environmental conditions. Measures for quantifying reliability include meantime to failure, probability of no failure within a specified period of time. Source: Clause 3.1 in 3GPP TS 22.104.
Controller: The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law. Source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016).
Data Subject: An individual, of any nationality and age, who is the subject of the personal data. Source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 ).
End-to-end latency: The time that takes to transfer a given piece of information from a source to a destination, measured at the communication service interface, from the moment it is transmitted by the source to the moment it is successfully received at the destination. Source: 3GPP TS 22.261.
Genetic data: Personal data relating to inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person which give unique information about the physiology or the health of that natural person and which result, in particular, from an analysis of a biological sample from the natural person in question. Source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 ).
Imaging system latency: The time to generate an image from a source, apply a certain amount of processing, transfer it to a destination and then render the resulting image on a suitable display device, as measured from the moment a specific event happens in the operating field to the moment that very same event is displayed on a screen.
Medical data: Personal data related to the physical or mental health of a natural person, including the provision of health care services, which reveal information about his or her health status. Source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 ).
Non-public network: A network that is intended for non-public use. Source: 3GPP TS 22.261.
Personal data: Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identity such as a name, an identification, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. Source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 ).
Private slice: A dedicated network slice deployment for the sole use by a specific 3rd party. Source: 3GPP TS 22.261.
Processing: Obtaining, recording, holding, or carrying out any operation on personal data. It includes organisation or alteration; retrieval or use; disclosure and anonymisation, blocking or destruction. Most operations in relation to personal data will constitute processing. Source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 ).
Processor: A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller. Source: GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 ).
Survival time: The time that an application consuming a communication service may continue without an anticipated message. Source: 3GPP TS 22.261.
Teleoperation system latency: The round trip time it takes to generate control commands at a robotic control console, send those commands over a communication service to a target robot, execute the robot’s actuators processes accordingly, sample the new robot system status, transmit that status back over the same communication service and render it to the operator through the control console equipment, measured from the moment the operator performs an action to the moment he can sense the result of that same action.
