Acronyms
This page provides explanations of many abbreviations (acronyms) used throughout the site. It is organized in alphabetical order.
A-E
- 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
F-J
- 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
K-O
- 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
P-T
- 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
U-Z
- 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