The collection of terms relating to the EHR environment, given in the Glossary Page of the About the Site Folder of this website, has been presented there both for online viewing and for printing as a step towards consistent use of terms about the EHR and the Health Information Domain. It is a selection of terms from a collection being used to create an ASTM Standard Terminology in Health Care Informatics by the ASTM E-31.01 Technical Subcommittee on Health Concept Representation. That Standard will be used not only within the ASTM E-31 Technical Committee on Health Informatics but also will be offered for use by other Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) within the ANSI Health Informatics Standards Board and by standards users, including educational programs. This collection was abstracted for this Website as a service in promoting education in Health Informatics and the EHR. Also listed here is a table of common acronyms for organizations and for others terms common used in association with the EHR and this website. It is intended to help the viewer understand the jargon appearing in discussions about the EHR.
Acronym |
Term |
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ADG |
Ambulatory Diagnostic Group |
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ADE |
Adverse Drug Event |
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AIM |
Advanced Informatics in Medicine |
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APC |
Ambulatory Payment Categories |
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CBPR |
Computer-Based Patient Record |
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CBT |
Computer-Based Training |
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CCS |
Certified Coding Specialist |
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CDT-2 |
Current Dental Terminology v 2 |
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CHCS |
Composite Healthcare System (US Dept of Defense) |
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CPR |
Computerized Patient Record |
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CPRI |
Computer-based Patient Record Institute |
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CPT |
Current Procedural Terminology |
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DBMS |
Data Base Management System |
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DSM4 |
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 4th Edition of the American Psychiatric Assoc. |
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DOM |
Distributed Object Manager |
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DRG |
Diagnosis Related Groups |
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DSS |
Decision Support System |
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EHR |
Electronic Health Record |
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EMR |
Electronic Medical Record |
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EPHR |
Electronic Patient (Personal) Health Record |
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FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
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GMD |
General Message Description |
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GOSIP |
Government Open Systems Interconnection Procurement |
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HHCC |
Home Health Care Classification |
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HIMSS |
Health Information Management Systems Society |
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HL7 |
Health Level Seven |
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HTML |
Hyper-Text Markup Language |
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ICCS |
International Classification of Clinical Services |
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ISA |
Information Systems Architecture |
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JCAHO |
Joint Commission of Accredited Health Organizations |
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KBS |
Knowledge Based System |
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KIF |
Knowledge Interchange Format |
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KWIC |
Keyword In Context |
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LOINC |
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes |
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MEDI |
Medical Electronic Data Interchange |
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MI |
Medical Informatics |
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MIB |
Medical Interface Bus |
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MLKB |
Medical Linguistic Knowledge Base |
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MLM |
Medical Logic Module |
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MLP |
Medical Language Processing |
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MPI |
Master Patient Index |
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MRA |
Medical Record Administrator |
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NCSA |
National Center for Super Computing Applications |
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NDC |
National Drug Code |
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NEI |
National Employer Identifier |
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NIC |
Nursing Interventions Classification |
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NLM |
National Library of Medicine |
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NLP |
Natural Language Processing |
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NMDS |
Nursing Minimum Data Set |
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NOC |
Nursing Outcomes Classification |
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NPS |
National Provider System |
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PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure |
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RHIA |
Registered Health Information Administrator |
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RHIT |
Registered Health Information Technician |
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SEE |
Software Engineering Environment |
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SESAME |
Standardization in Europe on Semantics Aspects of Medicine |
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SGML |
Standards General Markup Language |
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SNOMED |
Standardized Nomenclature of Medicine |
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SNOP |
Systematic Nomenclature of Pathology |
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SQL |
Structured Query Language |
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TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
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TIF |
Terminology Interchange Format |
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TM |
Terminology Model |
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UCDS |
Uniform Clinical Data System |
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UHDDS |
Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set |
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UML |
Unified Modeling Language |
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UMLS |
Unified Medical Language System |
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UPC |
Uniform Product Code |
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USHIK |
United States Health Information Knowledgebase |
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URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
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VISTA |
Veteran’s Information System and Technology Architecture |
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WAN |
Wide Area Network |
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WHO |
World Health organization |
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WWW |
World Wide Web |