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Abnology – Abnology is a word play for "abstracting technology". Through abstraction integrated IT services and solutions are distanced from technology to meet the business needs and optimal outcomes of an organization.
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
ATM - Automated Telemedicine
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
EHRVA - Electronic Health Record Vendors Association
EMR - Electronic Medical Record
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
GIP (Good Informatics Practices) - Methods and processes of aligning IT governance with corporate or institutional governance. The GIP Guidance is a comprehensive body of information about regulatory requirements (GLP, GMP, GCP and Part 11), standards, best practices, case studies, employable tools such as sample documents, check lists, standard operating procedures, methodologies and specific best IT practices that support good IT governance and compliance for an IT department of a life science or healthcare environment.
HAF - Health Architect’s Forum
HHS - Department of Health & Human Services
HI -Health Information
HIE (Health Information Exchange) - Defined as the mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a region, community or hospital system.
HIMSS – The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality, safety, cost-effectiveness, and access to healthcare through the best use of information technology and management systems. Originally founded in 1961 as the Hospital Management Systems Society, it is now headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The society includes more than 35,000 individual members, over 520 corporate members, and more than 120 not-for-profit organizations. HIMSS is a US 501(c)6 organization.
HIT (Health information technology) - Provides the umbrella framework to describe the comprehensive management of health information across computerized systems and its secure exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities, and insurers. Health information technology (HIT) is in general increasingly viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system.
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
IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) - IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical need in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively.
IHS - Indian Health Service
IOM - Institute of Medicine
IT - Information Technology
IT Ecosystem – The aggregation of people, processes and technology operating as a whole to meet the IT business needs of an organization.
IT Quality System – An IT Quality System can be expressed as the organizational structure, procedures, processes and resources needed to implement IT quality management.  JCAHO - Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
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
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
TBI - Traumatic brain injury
TLS - Transport Layer Security
Unified Compliance – Compliance is a process not an event. Leveraging an IT Quality System™ an unified process can be developed to meet the many IT compliance burdens that challenge regulated environments.
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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