Description |
Acronym |
American National Standards Institute |
ANSI |
Bar Code Medication Administration System |
BCMA |
Centers for Disease Control |
CDC |
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
CMS |
CHCS-VistA Data Sharing Interface |
DSI |
Clinical Data Repository/Health Data Repository |
CHDR |
Composite Healthcare System |
CHCS |
Computerized Patient Record System |
CPRS |
Consolidated Health Informatics |
CHI |
Consolidated Mail-Out Pharmacy |
CMOP |
Department of Defense |
DoD |
Department of Health and Human Services |
HHS |
Department of Veterans Affairs |
VA |
Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine |
DICOM |
Electronic Health Record |
HER |
Environmental Protection Agency |
EPA |
Federal Health Architecture |
FHA |
Federal Health Information Exchange |
FHIE |
Food and Drug Administration |
FDA |
Graphical User Interface |
GUI |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
HIPAA |
Health Level 7 |
HL7 |
Health Professional Shortage Areas |
HPSA |
Health Resources and Services Administration |
HRSA |
Healthcare Informatics Standards Board |
HISB |
Human Gene Nomenclature |
HUGN |
Indian Health Service |
IHS |
Information Technology |
IT |
Institute of Medicine |
IOM |
Lab Data Sharing and Interoperability |
LDSI |
Logical Observation Identifier Name Codes |
LOINC |
Medically Underserved Areas |
MUA |
Medically Underserved Populations |
MUP |
Memorandum of Understanding |
MOU |
Military Treatment Facility |
MTF |
National Cancer Institute |
NCI |
National Council on Prescription Drug Programs |
NCPDP |
National Drug File Reference Terminology |
NDF-RT |
National Health Information Infrastructure |
NHII |
National Library of Medicine |
NLM |
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
ONCHIT |
Standards Development Organization |
SDO |
Systematized Nomenclature Medicine Clinical Terms |
SNOMED-CT |
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
IEEE |
Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences
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USUHS |
Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture |
VistA |