HIT? HITECH? HIE? EHR? The world of healthcare IT involves lots of important acronyms. Whether you are new to them, or need a refresher, here’s the meaning behind eHealth’s most important acronyms.
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ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials
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BHIX: Brooklyn Health Information Exchange
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CAAT: California ARRA and Accountability Tool
CAeHC: California eHealth Collaborative
CAIR: California Automated Immunization Registry
CalHIPSO: California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization (formerly Cal-REC)
CalOHII: Office of Health Information Integrity
CalPSAB: California Privacy and Security Advisory Board
CalREDIE: California Reportable Disease Information Exchange
CalRHIO: California Regional Health Information Organization
CALSTARS: California State Accounting and Reporting System
CAPH: California Association of Public Hospitals
CAQH: Council for Affordable Quality Health care
CCD: Continuity of Care Document
CCF: Community Care Facility
CCMS: California Court Case Management System
CCR: Continuity of Care Record
CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDPH: California Department of Public Health
CFDA: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
CHA: California Hospital Association
CHDP: Child Health and Disability Prevention
CHFFA: California Health Facilities Financing Authority
CHHS: California Health and Human Services Agency
CHWA: California Health Workforce Alliance
CMIPS: Case Management Information and Payrolling System
CMR: Confidential Morbidity Reporting
CMS: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
CMS: Case Management System (in context of CWS)
CORE: Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange
CPCA: California Primary Care Association
CR: Controller’s Receipt
CSRHA: California State Rural Health Association
CTEC: California Telemedicine and eHealth Center
CTN: California TeleHealth Network
CVX: Clinical Vaccine Codeset Names
CWS: Child Welfare Services
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DHCS: Department of Health Care Services
DURSA: Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement
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EARS: Early Aberration Reporting System
ED: Emergency Department
EDI: Electronic Data Interchange
EHR: Electronic Health Record
ELINCS: EHR-Laboratory Interoperability and Connectivity Specification
ELR: Electronic Laboratory Reporting
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FCC: Federal Communications Commission
FCN: Federal Catalog Number
FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FQHC: Federally Qualified Health Center
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GE: Governance Entity
GPRA: Government Performance and Requirements
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HEAL-NY: Health care Efficiency and Affordability Law for New Yorkers
HEDIS: Health care Effectiveness Data and Information Set
HEP: Health and Education Passport
HIE: Health Information Exchange
HIO: Health Information Organization
HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIT: Health Information Technology
HITECH: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, part of ARRA
HITFAC: Health Information Technology Financing Advisory Commission
HITSP: Health care Information Technology Standards Panel
HL7: Health Level 7
HMO: Health Maintenance Organization
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ICD-9 or ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases, version 9 or 10
ICU: Intensive Care Unit
IDN: Integrated Delivery Network
IFR: Interim Final Rule
IFR: Interim Final Rule
IPA: Independent Physician Association
IPSec: Internet Protocol Security
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LBNH: Long Beach Network for Health
LEC: Local Extension Center
LOINC: Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
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Medi-Cal: California Medicaid Program.
MITA: Medicaid Information Technology Architecture
MMIS: Medicaid Management Information System
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
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NACO: National Association of County Officers
NAPHSIS: National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems
NCVHS: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
NGA: National Governors’ Association
NHIE: Nationwide Health Information Exchange
NHIN: Nationwide Health Information Network
NICU: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology
NPI: National Provider Identifier
NPRM: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
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OASE: Office of State Audits and Evaluation
OCIO: State Chief Information Officer
OHIT: Office of Health Information Technology (California)
OMB: Office of Management and Budget
ONC: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
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P/N: Project Number
PBM: Pharmacy Benefits Management
PHI: Personal Health Information
PHIN: Public Health Information Network
PHIN-MS: Public Health Information Network Messaging System
PHR: Personal Health Record
PPO: Preferred Provider Organization
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REC: Regional Extension Center
Regional HIO: Regional Health Information Organization
RHITEC: Regional Health Information Technology Extension Center (same as REC)
RPMS: Resource and Patient Management System
RODS: Real Time Outbreak Disease Surveillance
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SACWIS: Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System
SAML: Security Assertion Markup Language
SAWS: Statewide Automated Welfare
SBHC: School-Based Health care
SCO: State Controller’s Office
SEFA: Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards
SHARP: Strategic HIT Advanced Research Projects Program
SIIS: Statewide Immunization Information System
SMS: Short Message Service
SNOMED: Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
STEVE: State and Territorial Exchange of Vital Events
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TAC: Technical Advisory Committee
TRC: TeleHealth Resource Center
TLS: Transport Layer Security
TWG: Technical Working Group
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UDDI: Universal Description Discovery Interface
UHC: United Health care
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
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WSDL: Web Services Description Language
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