Health IT Acronyms
Health IT Acronyms A-C
- ACA – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- ACC – Accountable Care Collaborative
- ACI – Advancing Care Information
- ACO – Accountable Care Organization
- AI – Artificial Intelligence
- AIU – Adopt, Implement, Upgrade (certified EHR technology)
- ANPRM – Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
- ANSI – American National Standards Institute
- API – Application Programming Interface
- APM – Alternative Payment Model
- ARRA – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- ASC – Ambulatory Surgical Center
- ASP – Application Service Provider
- ATCB – Authorized Testing and Certification Body
- ATL – Accredited Testing Laboratory
- ATNA – Audit Trail and Node Authentication
- BAA – Business Associate Agreement
- BHIE – Bidirectional Health Information Exchange
- BPCI -Bundled Payments for Care Improvement
- BYOD – Bring Your Own Device
- BYOP – Bring Your Own Phone
- BYOPC – Bring Your Own PC
- BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology
- CAH – Critical Access Hospital
- CAHPS -Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
- CBO – Community-Based Organization
- CBSA – Non-Core Based Statistical Area
- CCD – Continuity of Care Document (CCR + CDA became CCD)
- C-CDA – Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture
- CCN – CMS Certification Number
- CCR – Continuity of Care Record
- CDA – Clinical Document Architecture
- CDO – care delivery organization
- CDR – Clinical Data Repository
- CDS – clinical decision support
- CDSS – clinical decision support system
- CEHRT – Certified Electronic Health Record Technology
- CER – Comparative Effectiveness Research
- CFR – Code of Federal Regulations
- CHC – Community Health Centers
- CHIPRA – Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act
- CHIP – Children’s Health Insurance Program
- CHPL – Certified Health IT Product List
- CHR – Community Health Records
- CJR – Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement
- CLIA – Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments
- CMV – Controlled Medical Vocabulary
- COI – Collection of Information
- CPIA – Clinical Practice Improvement Activity
- CPOE – Computerized physician order entry
- CPRS – Computerized Patient Record System
- CPS – Composite Performance Score
- CPT – Current Procedural Terminology
- CQM – Clinical Quality Measure
- CTE – Conditions for Trusted Exchange
- CY / FY -Calendar Year / Fiscal Year (Federal)
Health IT Acronyms D-M
- DBE – Documenting by exception
- DEIA – Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility
- DOB – Date of Birth
- DURSA – Data use and reciprocal support agreement
- eCQI – Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement
- eCQM - electronic Clinician Quality Measure
- ED – Emergency Department
- EDIS – Emergency Department Information Systems
- EH – Eligible Hospital
- eMAR – Electronic Medication Administration Record
- EMR/EHR – electronic medical/health record
- EMPI – Enterprise Master Person Index
- EP – Eligible Professional
- ePHI – Electronic Protected Health Information
- eRx – Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions (ePrescribing)
- FACA – Federal Advisory Committee Act
- FAST – Federal Adoption of Standards for Health IT
- FFS – Fee-For-Service
- FHA – Federal Health Architecture
- FHIR – Fast Health care Interoperability Resources
- FIPS – Federal Information Processing Standards
- FOA – Funding Opportunity Announcement
- FOSS – Free and Open Source/Solutions Software
- FQHC – Federally Qualified Health Center
- FTP – File Transport Protocol
- FDP – Gross Domestic Product
- GPRO – Group Practice Reporting Option
- HEDIS – Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set
- HIE – Health Information Exchanges
- HIM – Health Information Management
- HIN – Health Information Network
- HIO – Health Information Organization
- HIQR – Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting
- HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- HISP – Health Information Service Provider
- HISPC – Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration
- HIT – Health Information Technology
- HITECH – Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
- HITPC – Health Information Technology Privacy Council
- HIQR – Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting
- HIX – Health Insurance Exchange
- HPSA – Health Professional Shortage Areas
- HRSA – Health Resources and Services Administration
- IAS – Individual Access Services
- ICD-10-CM – International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification
- ICD-10-PCS – International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Procedure Coding System
- ICD-9-CM – International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification
- ICE – Integrated Community EHR
- IFR – Interim Final Rule
- IOM – Institute of Medicine
- IPPS – Inpatient Prospective Payment System
- ISO – International Organization for Standardization
- IT – Information Technology
- LLM – Large Language Models (in AI)
- LTPAC – Long Term Post Acute Care
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LOINC – Logical Observations Identifiers, Names, Codes
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MA – Medicare Advantage
- MACRA – Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
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MCMP –Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration
- MCO – Managed Care Organization
- MDDS – Medical Device Data Systems
- MEI – Medicare Economic Index
- MIPAA – Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
- MIPS – Merit-based Incentive Payment System
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MITA – Medicaid Information Technology Architecture
- MMIS – Medicaid Management Information System
- MSSP – Medicare Shared Savings Program
- MU – Meaningful Use
- MUA – Medically Underserved Areas
Health IT Acronyms N-Z
- NCQA – National Committee for Quality Assurance
- NCVHS –National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
- NHE – Non-HIPAA Entity
- NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology
- NLM – National Library of Medicine
- NLP – Natural Language Processing
- NPI –National Provider Identifier
- NPRM – Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
- NPPES – National Plan and Provider Emumeration System
- NVLAP – National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
- NwHIN – Nationwide Health Information Network
- OCM – Oncology Care Model
- OCPO – Office of the Chief Privacy Officer
- OCR – Office for Civil Rights
- ONC-AA – ONC-Approved Accreditor
- ONC-ACB – ONC-Authorized Certification Body
- ONC-ATCB – ONC Authorized Testing and Certification Body
- ONCHIT – Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
- P4P – Pay for Performance
- PA –Physician Assistant
- PACS – picture archiving and communication systems
- PBRNs – Practice-Based Research Networks
- PCHR – Personally Controlled Health Record
- PCI DSS – Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
- PCMH – Patient-Centered Medical Home
- PCP – Primary Care Physician
- PECOS –Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System
- PFPM – Physician Focused Payment Model
- PFS – Physician Fee Schedule
- PGHD – Patient-Generated Health Data
- PHA – Public Health Agency
- PHS – Public Health Service
- PHI – Personal Health Information or Protected Health Information
- PHR – Personal Health Record
- PHSA – Public Health Service Act
- PMS – Practice Management System
- PKI – Public Key Infrastructure
- POS – Place of Service
- PPACA – Patient Portability and Affordable Care Act
- PPS –Prospective Payment System (Medicare Part A)
- PQRI – Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
- PQRS – Physician Quality Reporting System
- QCDR – Qualified Clinician Data Registry
- QE – (CMS) Qualified Entity
- QHIN – Qualified Health Information Networks
- QP – Qualifying APM Professional
- QPP – Quality Payment Program
- QRDA – Quality Reporting Document Architecture
- QRUR – Quality and Resource Use Reports
- RBRVS – Resource-Based Relative Value Scale
- REC – Recognized Coordinating Entity
- REC – Regional Extension Center
- RHC –Rural Health Clinic
- RHIO – Regional Health Information Organizations
- RHQDAPU –Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update
- RPA – Robotic Process Automation
- RTLS – Real Time Location Systems
- RVU – Relative Value Unit
- SaaS – Software-as-a-Service product
- SDO – Standards Development Organization
- SGR – Sustainable Growth Rate
- SMHP – State Medicaid Health Information Plan
- SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- SNOMED CT – Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine — Clinical Terms
- SOAP – Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan
- SOP – Standard Operating Procedure
- TCPI – Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative
- TEFCA – Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement
- TIN –Taxpayer Identification Number
- TLS – Transport Layer Security
- UCD – User-Centered Design
- UNII Unique Ingredient Identifier
- UCUM – Unified Code for Units of Measure
- USB – Universal Serial Bus
- USHIK – United States Health Information Knowledgebase
- VA – Veterans Affairs
- VLER – Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (used by VA)
- VM – Value-based Payment Modifier
- VNA – Vendor Neutral Archive
- VPS – Volume Performance Standard
- XML – Extensible Markup Language
- XP code – Exchange Purpose Code that is in the message itself
Health IT Acronyms Occupations and Degrees
- APRN – Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
- ASPE – HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
- CIO – Chief Information Officer
- CISO – Chief Information Security Officer
- CMO – Chief Medical Officer
- CMIO – Chief Medical Information/Informatics Officer
- HIAN – Health Informatics and Analytics
- MSHCA – Master of Science in Health Care Analytics and Information Technology
- NP – Nurse Practitioner
Health IT Acronyms for Organizations and Agencies
- AAAAI – American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology
- AAHAM – American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management
- AAMI – Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
- AAPC – American Academy of Professional Coders
- ACC – American College of Cardiology
- ACRO – Association of Clinical Research Organizations
- AHA – American Hospital Association
- AHDI – Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity
- AHIC – American Health Information Community (Now NeHC)
- AHIMA – The American Health Information Management Association
- AHRQ – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- AMDIS – Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
- AMIA – American Medical Informatics Association
- AMSPAR – The Association of Medical Secretaries, Practice Managers, Administrators and Receptionists
- ANI – Alliance for Nursing Informatics
- ANSI – American National Standards Institute
- APHA – American Public Health Association
- ASHHRA – American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration
- ASTM – ASTM International – originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials
- CAQH – Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare
- CCHIT – Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
- CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CDISC – Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
- CHIME – College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
- CMMI – Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
- CMS – Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- DMAA – Disease Management Association of America (now Care Continuum Alliance)
- EHRA – Electronic Health Record Association (of HIMSS)
- EHNAC – Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission
- EHRVA – Electronic Health Record Vendors Association
- FDA – Food and Drug Administration
- HBMA – Healthcare Billing and Management Association
- HHS – Department of Health & Human Services
- HIMSS – Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
- HISB – Healthcare Informatics Standards Board
- HISPC – Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration
- HITAC – Health Information Technology Advisory Committee
- HITRC – National Health IT Research Center
- HITSP – Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
- HHS – Department of Health and Human Services
- HL7 – Health Level 7
- HRSA – Health Resources and Services Administration (under HHS)
- IHI – Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- IHTSDO – International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization
- IPA – Independent Practice Association
- ISDS – International Society for Disease Surveillance
- JCAHO – The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
- MGMA – Medical Group Management Association
- MSO – Medical (or Management) Service Organization
- MTIA – Medical Transcription Industry Association
- MTSO – Medical Transcription Service Organization
- NAHAM – National Association of Healthcare Access Management
- NAHIT – National Alliance for Health Information Technology (Ceasing operation on 9/30/09)
- NASCIO – National Association of State Chief Information Officers
- NATE – National Association for Trusted Exchange
- NCPDP – National Counsil for Prescription Drug Programs
- NCQA – National Committee for Quality Assurance
- NCVHS – National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
- NeHC – National eHealth Collaborative
- NHIN – Nationwide Health Information Network
- NHMA – National Hispanic Medical Association
- NIH – National Institues of Health
- NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology
- NQF – National Quality Forum
- NSG – National Standards Group
- OCR – Office of Civil Rights (Dept of Health and Human Services)
- OESS – Office of E-Health Standards and Servies (under CMS)
- OMB –Office of Management and Budget
- ONC – Office of the National Coordinator (preferred abbreviation for ONCHIT)
- PAHCOM – Professional Association of Health Care Office Management
- PCAST – President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
- PCORI – Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
- PHDSC – Public Health Data Standards Consortium
- PHO – Physician Hospital Organization
- SHIRE – Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.
- TCBI – The Center for Business Innovation
- TIPAAA – The IPA Association of America
- WEDI – Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange