This page provides explanations of many abbreviations (acronyms) used throughout the site. It is organized in alphabetical order.
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AHIC | American Health Information Community |
AHIMA | American Health Information Management Association |
AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
ASTHO | Association of State and Territorial Health Officials |
BHIE | Bi-directional Health Information Exchange |
BPM | Business Process Model |
BSV | Biosurveillance |
CC | Chronic Care |
CDC | Centers for Disease Control |
CDISC | Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium |
CE | Consumer Empowerment |
CHI | Consolidated Health Informatics |
CCHIT | Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology |
CDS | Clinical Decision Support |
CHC | Community Health Centers |
CIO | Chief Information Officer |
CISO | Chief Information Security Officer |
CMS | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
CONNECT | NHIN gateway |
CONOPS | Concept of Operations |
COTS | Commercial Off-the-Shelf |
CPRS | Computerized Patient Record System |
CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
DoD | Department of Defense |
DURSA | Data use and reciprocal support agreement |
EA | Enterprise Architecture |
E-GOV | E-Government |
EHR | Electronic Health Record |
EHR | Electronic Health Record |
EHRVA | Electronic Health Record Vendors Association |
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FACA | Federal Advisory Committee Act |
FAST | Federal Adoption of Standards for Health IT |
FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
FEA | Federal Enterprise Architecture |
FHA | Federal Health Architecture |
FHIPR | Federal Health Information Planning and Reporting |
FHISE | Federal Health Information Sharing Environment |
FHITSOP | Federal Health IT Standards Organization Participation |
FORE | Foundation of Research and Education (part of AHMA; works for ONC) |
FSS | Federal Security Strategy |
FSWG | Federal Security Work Group |
FSWG | Food Safety Work Group - obsolete |
FTF | Federal Transition Framework |
HAF | Health Architect’s Forum |
HHS | Department of Health & Human Services |
HI | Health Information |
HIE | Health Information Exchange |
HIMSS | Healthcare Information Management Systems Society |
HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
HISB | Healthcare Informatics Standards Board |
HISE | Health Information Sharing Environment |
HISPC | Health Information Security and Privacy |
HIT | Health Information Technology |
HITPC | Health Information Technology Policy Council |
HITSP | Health Information Technology Standards Panel |
HL7 | Health Level 7 |
HRSA | Health Resources and Services Administration |
HSP | Health Information Service Provider |
IFMC | Iowa Foundation for Medical Informatics |
IHS | Indian Health Service |
IOM | Institute of Medicine |
IT | Information Technology |
JCAHO | Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
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LC | Leadership Council - FHA |
LOB | Line of Business |
MLPC | Managing Lead Partner Council - FHA |
MUA | Medically Underserved Areas |
NAHIT | National Alliance for Health Information Technology; "The Alliance" |
NCI | National Cancer Institute |
NCSL | National Conference of State Legislatures |
NCVHS | National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics |
NGA | National Governors Association |
NHIE | NHIN Health Information Exchange |
NHIN | Nationwide Health Information Network |
NIH | National Institutes of Health |
NLM | National Library of Medicine |
OHITA | Office of Health Information Technology Adoption |
OIS | Office of Interoperability & Standards |
OMB | Office of Management & Budget |
ONC | Office of the National Coordinator (preferred abbreviation for ONCHIT) |
ONCHIT | Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
OPC | Office of Programs & Coordination |
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 |
PHC | Personalized Health Care |
PHCCC | Population Health & Clinical Care Connections |
PHR | Personal Health Record |
PITAC | President's Information Technology Advisory Committee |
PM | Program Management |
PMO | Project Management Office |
PQRI | Physican Quality Reporting Initiative |
PTSD | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
PVRP | Physician Voluntary Reporting Program |
QUAL | Quality |
RHIO | Regional Health Information Network |
RPMS | Resource and Patient Management System |
RTF | Review Task Force |
SAMHSA | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration |
SDO | Standards Development Organization |
SDLC | Standards Development Lifecycle |
SLHIE | State Level Health Information Exchange Consensus Project |
SNOMED | Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine |
SOA | Service Oriented Architecture |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
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TBI | Traumatic Brain Injury |
TLS | Transport Layer Security |
VHA | Veterans Health Administration |
VistA | Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture |
VOE | Vista Office EHR |
WG | Work Group |
WW | Wounded Warrior |
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