4FP Fourth Framework (Health Telematics) Programme
AAAI American Association for Artificial Intelligenc
AACE Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education
AAMC The American Association of Medical Colleges
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics Australia
ACF Ambulatory Care Facility
ACIG Academy of Colleges Information Group UK
ACM Association for Computing Machinery
ACMI American College of Medical Informatics USA
ADL Activities for Daily Living.
ADL Assertion Definition Language
ADT Admission, Discharge And Transfer
AGNIS A Gnomic Nursing Information System.
AHIMA American Healthcare Information Management Association USA
AHMAC Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council Australia
AHMC Australian Health Ministers' Conference Australia
AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Australia
AIM Advanced Informatics in Medicine
AIM Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
AIME European Society for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
ALF Assisted Living Facility
ALT Association for Learning Technology
AMEE Association for Medical Education in Europe
AMIA American Medical Informatics Association
ANSI American National Standards Institute USA
APEL Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning
APL Accreditation of Prior Learning
Alternate Quality Assessment Survey
ARC Academy of Royal Medical Colleges UK
ARDEN Arden Syntax Medical Logic Modules
ASC Ambulatory Surgical Center
ASME Association for the Study of Medical Education
ASSIST Association for Information Management and Technology Staff in Health
ATIM Accompanying Measure within the Advanced Informatics in Medicine Programme
BAMM British Association of Medical Managers UK
BIPA Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000
BPEL Business Process Execution Language for Web Services
CCR Continuing Care Record
CCOW Clinical Context Object Workgroup
CDA Clinical Document Architecture
CEN The European Committee for Standardisation Surgical Center Europe
CT Consistent Time - IHE Integration Profile
CHDM Conceptual Health Data Model
CHIME Community Health Information Management Enterprise Australia
CHIN Community health Information Network
CHIPP Canada Health Infostructure Partnerships Program Canada
CHN Canadian Health Network Canada
CIHI Canadian Institute for Health Information Canada
CLIA Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments
CMHC Commmunity Mental Health Center
CMI Case Mix Index
CMV Controlled medical vocabulary
CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services USA
CORBAMed Common Object Request Broker Architecture for Medicine
CORF Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility
CPOE Computerized Physician Order Entry
CPR Computer-based Patient Record
CPRI Computer-based Patient Record Institute
CPT-4 Current Procedural Terminology
CTI Computer Telephony Integration
CQI Continuous Quality Improvement
DES Data Encryption Standard
DHAC Department of Health and Aged Care
DMEPOS Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics/Orthotics and Supplies
DRG Diagnosis Related Groups
DSS Decision Support System
DUR Drug Utliization Review
EC European Community
EDI Electronic Data Exchange
EHR Electronic Health Record
EOB Explanation of Benefits
EPO Exclusive Provider Organization
EPR Electronic Patient Record
ESRD End-Stage Renal Disease
EUA Enterprise User Authentication profile
FFS Fee-for-Service Payment System
FMRC Family Medicine Research Centre
FTE Full Time Equivalency
GALEN Generalized Architecture for Languages, Encyclopaedias and Nomenclatures in Medicine
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GEHR Good European Health-care Record.Europe
GEHR Good Electronic Health Record
GP General Practitioner
GPCG General Practice Computing Group Australia
GPWW Group Practise Without Walls
GUI Graphical User Interface
HCQIA Health Care Quality Improvement Act
HCQIP Helath Care Quality Improvement Program
HCPCS Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
HEDIS Health Employers Data Information Set
HHAS Home Health Agencies
HIC Health Insurance Commission Australia
HIMSS Health Information and Management Systems Society
HIN Health Information Networking
HINA Health Information Network Australia Australia
HIO Health Insuring Organization
HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
HISP Health Infrastructure Support Program
HL7 Health Level Seven International
HMO Health Maintenance Organization
HMRI Hospital Medical Records Institute
HON Health On the Net Foundation
HHOS Medicare Health Outcomes Survey
HRA Health Risk Assessment
HRF Health Related Facility
HTML Hyper Text Mark-up Language
ICD9 International Classification of Diseases (9th Edition)
ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases ( 10th Edition) International
ICD-10-AM International Classification of Diseases ( 10th Edition) Australian Modification
ICECI International Classification of External Causes of Injury
ICF Intermediate Care Facility
ICIDH International Classification of Impairments, Disability and Handicaps
ICIDH-2 International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health International
ICPC-2 International Classification of Primary Care (2nd Edition) International
ICT Information and Communication Technologies
IHE Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise - HIMSS
IOM Institute of Medicine (USA) USA
IPA Independent Practice Association
ISO International Standards Organisation
IT Information Technology
IVR Interactive Voice Response
KONA Diogenes
LMD Lab Data Model
LOA Leave of Absence
LOINC Logical Observation and Identifier Names and Codes
LOS Length of Stay
LTC Long Term Care
MB Megabyte
MCCA Medicine Coding Council of Australia Australia
MCBS Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey
MCO Managed Care Organization
MDS Minimum Data Set USA
MS-HUG Microsoft Healthcare Users Group
MSO Management Services Organization
MWS Medical Warning System
NCCI National Corret Coding Initiative Edits
NCCH National Centre for Classification in Health Australia
NCSDC National Community Services Data Committee Australia
NCSDD National Community Services Data Dictionary Australia
NCSIMG National Community Services Information Management Group Australia
NHDC National Health Data Committee Australia
NHDD National Health Data Dictionary Australia
NHI National Health Index (NZ) New Zealand
NHIMAC National Health Information Management Advisory Council Australia
NHIMG National Health Information Management Group Australia
NHISAC National Health Information Standards Advisory Council Australia
NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council Australia
NHS National Health Service UK
NHSnet National Health Service Network UK
NIC Nursing Intervention Classification
NICE National Institute for Clinical Excellence UK
NOC Nursing Outcome Classification
NZHIS New Zealand Health Information Service New Zealand
OACIS Open Architecture Clinical Information System
OASIS Outcome and Assessment Information Set (Home Health)
OBRA Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (CMS)
OCR Optical Character Recognition
ODM Operational Data Model
OHIH Office of Health and Information Highway Canada
OHPA Ontario Health Providers Association Canada
OT Occupational Therapy
PAC Preadmission Certificate
PCN Primary Care Network
PIN Personal Identification Number
PIT Pathology Information Transfer
PIX Patient Identifier Cross reference profile
PKAF Public Key Authentication Framework
PKI PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PMI Patient Master Index
PPO Preferred Provider Organization
PPS Prospective Payment System
PRIT Physician Regulatory Issues Team
PRO Peer Review Organization
PSA Patient Synchronized Application profile - CCOW
PT Physical Therapy
PRI Patient Review Instrument
PRIT Physician Regulatory Issues Team
PROREC PROmotion Strategy for European Electronic Health Care RECords
QIO Qualitiy Improvement Organization
QISMC Quality Improvement System for Managed Care
QM Quality Measurement
RACGP Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Australia
RAI Resident Asssessment Instrument - related to MDS
RAS Remote Access Server
RAP Resident Assessment Protocol - related to MDS
RBRVS Resource-Based Relative Value Scale
RHHI Regional Home Health Intermediary
RID Retrieve Information for Display profile
RIM Reference Information Model
RT Reference terminology or Recreational Therapy
RUGS Resource Utilization Groups
RVU Relative Value Units
SCHIP State Childrens Health Insurance Program
SDS Submissions DAta Standard
SMDA Safe Medical Devices Act
SNF Skilled Nursing Facility
SNOMED Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine USA
SNOMED-CTSystematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical terms USA
SPARCS Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System
SPAP State Pharmacy Assistance Program
ST Speech Therapy
SPL Structured Product Label for pharmaceutical products
SSA Social Security Administration
SSA State Survey Agency
ST Speech Therapy
SWF Scheduled Work Flow
TPA Third Party Administrator
TQM Total Quality Management
UB92 Uniform Billing Form
UMLS Unified Medical Language System International
UN/EDIFACT United Nation Directories for Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
UR Utilization Review
URO Utilization Review Organization
VPN Virtual Private Network
WHO World Health Organisation International
WONCA World Organisation of National Colleges, Academies and Academic associations of General Practitioners / Family
Physicians or more briefly the World Organisation of Family Doctors International
WWW World Wide Web
XML Extensible Mark-up Language