This page provides explanations of many abbreviations (acronyms) used throughout the site. It is organized in alphabetical order.
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ACA |
Affordable Care Act |
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ACO |
Accountable Care Organization |
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American Health Information Community |
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American Health Information Management Association |
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
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American National Standards Institute |
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American Public Health Association |
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API |
Application Program Interface |
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ARRA |
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 |
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Association of State and Territorial Health Officials |
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BAA |
Business Associate Agreement |
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BHIE |
Bi-directional Health Information Exchange |
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BPM |
Business Process Model |
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BSV |
Biosurveillance |
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CC |
Chronic Care |
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CCD |
Continuity of Care Document |
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Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture |
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Centers for Disease Control |
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Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium |
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CE |
Consumer Empowerment |
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Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology |
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CDS |
Clinical Decision Support |
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CHC |
Community Health Centers |
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College of Health care Information Management Executives |
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CHIP |
Children’s Health Insurance Program |
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CIO |
Chief Information Officer |
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CISO |
Chief Information Security Officer |
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
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NHIN gateway |
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CONOPS |
Concept of Operations |
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COTS |
Commercial Off-the-Shelf |
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CPRS |
Computerized Patient Record System |
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CPT |
Current Procedural Technology |
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CRM |
Customer Relationship Management |
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Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists |
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Department of Defense |
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DURSA |
Data use and reciprocal support agreement |
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EA |
Enterprise Architecture |
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eCQI |
Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement |
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E-GOV |
E-Government |
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EHR |
Electronic Health Record |
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ELR |
Electronic Lab Reporting |
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EMR |
Electronic Medical Record |
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Electronic Health Record Association |
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eRX |
Electronic Prescribing |
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FACA |
Federal Advisory Committee Act |
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FAST |
Federal Adoption of Standards for Health IT |
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Food and Drug Administration |
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FEA |
Federal Enterprise Architecture |
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Federal Health Architecture |
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FHIPR |
Federal Health Information Planning and Reporting |
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Fast Health care Interoperability Resources |
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FHISE |
Federal Health Information Sharing Environment |
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FHITSOP |
Federal Health IT Standards Organization Participation |
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FORE |
Foundation of Research and Education |
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FSS |
Federal Security Strategy |
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FSWG |
Federal Security Work Group |
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FSWG |
Food Safety Work Group - obsolete |
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FTF |
Federal Transition Framework |
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HAF |
Health Architect’s Forum |
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Department of Health & Human Services |
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HI |
Health Information |
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HIE |
Health Information Exchange |
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Healthcare Information Management Systems Society |
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
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HISB |
Healthcare Informatics Standards Board |
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HISE |
Health Information Sharing Environment |
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HISP |
Health Information Service Provider |
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HISPC |
Health Information Security and Privacy |
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HIT |
Health Information Technology |
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Health Information Technology Advisory Committee |
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HITECH |
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 |
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HITPC |
Health Information Technology Policy Council |
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HITSP |
Health Information Technology Standards Panel |
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Health Level 7 |
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Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
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Health Resources and Services Administration |
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ICD |
International Classification of Diseases |
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IFMC |
Iowa Foundation for Medical Informatics |
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Integrating the Health care Enterprise |
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Indian Health Service |
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IOM |
Institute of Medicine; now HMD |
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IT |
Information Technology |
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Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
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LC |
Leadership Council - FHA |
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LOB |
Line of Business |
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LTPAC |
Long Term Post Acute Care |
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MACRA |
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 |
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MIPS |
Merit-based Incentive Payment System |
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MLPC |
Managing Lead Partner Council - FHA |
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MU |
Meaningful Use |
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MUA |
Medically Underserved Areas |
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National Association for Trusted Exchange |
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NAHIT |
National Alliance for Health Information Technology; "The Alliance" |
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National Cancer Institute |
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National Council for Prescription Drug Programs |
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National Conference of State Legislatures |
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National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics |
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National Governors Association |
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NHIE |
NHIN Health Information Exchange |
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NHIN |
Nationwide Health Information Network |
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National Institutes of Health |
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National Institute of Standards and Technology |
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National Library of Medicine |
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National Quality Forum |
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Office for Civil Rights |
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OHITA |
Office of Health Information Technology Adoption |
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OIS |
Office of Interoperability & Standards |
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OMB |
Office of Management & Budget |
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Office of the National Coordinator |
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ONCHIT |
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
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OPC |
Office of Programs & Coordination |
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OPR |
Office of Policy & Research |
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PARTner |
The name for IFMC's system for collecting data from everyone who reports data in to OCSQ |
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PCMH |
Patient-Centered Medical Home |
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PCP |
Primary Care Physician |
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PDMP |
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program |
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PHC |
Personalized Health Care |
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PHCCC |
Population Health & Clinical Care Connections |
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PHR |
Personal Health Record |
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PITAC |
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee |
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PM |
Program Management |
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PMO |
Project Management Office |
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Physician Quality Reporting Initiative |
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PQRS |
Physician Quality Reporting System |
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PTSD |
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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PVRP |
Physician Voluntary Reporting Program |
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Quality Payment Program |
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Quality Reporting Document Architecture |
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QUAL |
Quality |
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RHIO |
Regional Health Information Network |
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RPMS |
Resource and Patient Management System |
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RTF |
Review Task Force |
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration |
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SDO |
Standards Development Organization |
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SDLC |
Standards Development Lifecycle |
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SLHIE |
State Level Health Information Exchange Consensus Project |
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Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine |
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SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
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SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer |
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TBI |
Traumatic Brain Injury |
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TLS |
Transport Layer Security |
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Veterans Health Administration |
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VistA |
Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture |
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VOE |
Vista Office EHR |
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WG |
Work Group |
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WW |
Wounded Warrior |