ANSI: American National Standard Institute – A standard for formatting claims, ERN, and other EDI transactions
ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
ASP: Application Service Providers (a type of EHR platform)
CCD: Continuity of Care Document – Part of the HL7 protocol, CCD is an XML document describing the architecture of a medical document and in-turn, patient records
CCHIT: Certified Commission for Health Information Technology
CCN: CMS Certification Numbers
CDSS: Clinical Decision Support System
CER: Comparative Effectiveness Research
CHITREC: Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center
CMS: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CPOE: Computerized Prescription Order Entry
EHR Electronic Health Record (patient owned data, over time/across providers)
EMR: Electronic Medical Record (provider owned data within application environment)
EP: Eligible Professional
FLOSS: Free/Libre Open Source Software
FQHC: Federally Qualified Health Center
HIE: Health Information Exchange
HIT: Health Information Technology
HITECH Act: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
HITSP: Health Information Technology Standards Panel
HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HHS: Health and Human Services (Government Dept)
HL7: Health Link 7 – A protocol for interoperability
HPSA: Health Professional Shortage Area
ICD9/10/11: International Classification of Diseases (coding system)
IFR: Interim Final Rule
IL-HITREC: Illinois Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center administered by Northern Illinois University supporting all regions in Illinois outside the 606xx area codes
LAN: Local Area Network
LOINC: Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes – A data-set of universal codes for exchanging and storing clinical results, vital signs, and more
MMI Program: Master of Science in Medical Informatics program offered by Northwestern University’s School of Continuing Studies
MU: Meaningful Use (Core and menu objectives established under ARRA that providers must meet in order to receive CMS incentives)
MUA: Medically Underserved Area
NPRM: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
NCPDP: National Council for Prescription Drug Programs – A communication standard for e-Prescribing
ONC (aka ONCHIT): Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
PCP: Primary Care Provider/Physician
PHI: Protected health information
PHR: Personal Health Record
PMS: Practice Management System
RHIO: Regional Health Information Organization
SaaS: Software as a Service (a type of EHR platform)
SNOMED: Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine, a hierarchical classification system of clinical terminology