A:
ADE: adverse drug event
ADT: admission and discharge transactions
AHIMA: American Health Information Management Association
ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
B:
BI: business intelligence
BPM: business process management
C:
CDHP: consumer directed health plans
CDI: customer data integration
CDR: clinical data repositories
CHIME: College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
CQI: continuous quality improvement
CRM: customer relationship management
D:
DG: data governance
DQ: data quality
E:
EA: enterprise architecture
EAI: enterprise application integration
EII: enterprise information intelligence
EHR : electronic health records
EMPI: enterprise master patient/person index
EMR: electronic medical records
ER: entity resolution
ETL: exact, transform and load
F:
False Negative: A missed match
False Positive: An incorrect match
H:
HIAA: Health Insurance Association of America
HIE: health information exchange
HIM: health information management
HIMSS: Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIT: health information technology
HL7: Health Level 7 (A standard messaging format used in healthcare )
I:
IDN: integrated delivery network
IH: interoperable health
IHE: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (standards organization)
IXM: incremental cross match
J:
JCAHO: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
L:
LDAP: lightweight directory access protocol
M:
MDM: master data management
MPI: master patient/person index
MRN: medical record number
N:
NHIN: Nationwide Health Information Network (US)
NHS: National Health Service (UK)
NPI: national provider identifier
O:
OFAC: Office of Foreign Asset Control
OIG: Office of the Inspector General
P:
PACS: picture archiving and communications system
PBM: prescription buyer manager
PII: personally identifiable information
PIM: product information management
PHI: protected health information. Defined as part of HIPAA.
POI: persons of interest
POLE: people, object, locations, events
R:
RHIO: regional health information organization
RIS: radiology information system
RLS: record locator service
ROI: return on investment, a business metric calculated by dividing revenue by costs
S:
SMTP: simple message transfer protocol
SOA: services-oriented architecture
SOAP: simple object access protocol
SODA: services-oriented development of applications
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