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