CWDS Glossary

The Medicaid program in California that provides health coverage to people with low-income and asset levels who meet certain eligibility requirements.

A memorandum of understanding is an agreement between two or more parties outlined in a formal document. It is not legally binding but signals the willingness of the parties to move forward with a contract.

Message Digest 5 (MD5) is a hash function used in cryptography. Developed by Ronald Rivest in 1991, Message Digest 5 produces a 128-bit resulting hash value. Similar to other message-digest algorithms, it was largely developed for digital signature applications which make use of a large compressed file in a secure fashion. Although it is still widely used, security of the function is severely compromised and as a result most applications, especially ones related to the U.S. government, require the SHA-2 family of hash functions for cryptography. Message Digest 5 is considered to be broken and unsuitable for further use according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.

A Milestone is a body of work marking a significant change or stage in development. For the CWS-CARES Project a Milestone consists of a set of Building Blocks (see BB definition) grouped around distinct value themes (to be validated in Value Hypothesis work), used to track progress for oversight agencies and other stakeholders.

A set of Features for each Digital Service that represents functionality required to support a core set of business processes.

A Release for CWS-CARES fixes (inclusive of all previous fixes and patches), CWS-CARES enhancements, and new functionality.

A computer program designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices.

The ability for staff to work out of the office, using mobile devices and accompanying Mobile Applications to perform business tasks, either connected to the internet (on-line) or not (off-line).

A design approach that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules that can be independently created and then used in different systems. It can be characterized by functional partitioning into discrete, scalable, reusable modules and making use of industry standards for developing applications.