Glossary of Acronyms

Acronym	Definition
ACA	Affordable Care Act
ACA (PPACA)	Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
ACO	Accountable Care Organization
ADT	Admissions, Discharges, Transfers
AIU	Adopt, Implement, Upgrade
APCD	All Payer Claims Database
APD	Advance Planning Document
API	Application Programming Interface
APM	Alternative Payment Model
ARRA	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
ATCB	Authorized Testing and Certification Body
AWS	Amazon Web Services
BA	Business Associates
BI	Business Intelligence
C&S	Conditions and Standards
CAH	Critical Access Hospital
CALiPHR	CQM Aligned Population Health Reporting
CBES	State Children's Health Insurance Budget and Expenditure System
CCD	Continuity of Care Document
CCIIO	Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight
CCN	CMS Certification Number
CCR	Continuity of Care Record
CDA	Clinical Document Architecture
CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDR	Clinical Data Repository
CDS	Clinical Decision Support
CE	Covered Entities
CEHRT	Certified Electronic Health Record Technology
CFR	Technology Code of Federal Regulations
CHIP	Children's Health Insurance Program
CHPL	Certified Health Information Technology Products List
CI/CD	Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
CMS	Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS (EUA)	Enterprise User Administration
CNM	Certified Nurse Midwife
CO	Central Office
CoP	Community of Practice
CPC	Comprehensive Primary Care
CPOE	Computerized Physician Order Entry
CQMs	Clinical Quality Measures
CRISP	Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients
CSD	Clinical Services Discovery
CY	Calendar Year
DDI	Design, Develop, Implement
DICOM	Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DSG	Data and Systems Group
DSM	Direct Secure Messaging
E&E	Eligibility & Enrollment
EC2	AWS Elastic Compute Cloud
eCQM	Electronic Clinical Quality Measure
eCQMR	Electronic Clinical Quality Measures Repository
EH	Eligible Hospital
EHR	Electronic Health Record
ELR	Electronic Laboratory Record
eMAR	Electronic Medication Administration Record
EP	Eligible Professional
ePHI	Electronic protected health information
e-prescribing	Electronic Prescribing
eRx	Electronic Prescribing
ESB	Enterprise Service Bus
EUA	End User Application
FAQ	Frequently Asked Question
FAQs	Frequently Asked Questions
FCC	Federal Communications Commission
FedRAMP	Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
FERPA	Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act
FFP	Federal Financial Participation
FFS	Fee-for-Service
FFY	Federal Fiscal Year
FHIR	Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
FISMA	Federal Information Security Management Act
FMAP	Federal Medical Assistance Percentage
FQHC	Federally Qualified Health Center
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
FY	Fiscal Year
HCBS	Home and Community Based Services
HCD	Human Centered Design
HcDir	ONC/FHA Healthcare Directory
HEDIS	Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set
HHS	Health and Human Services
HIE	Health Information Exchange
HIO	Health Information Organization
HIPAA	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIS	Hospital Information System
HIT	Health Information Technology
HITECH	Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
HITECH TA	Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Technical Assistance
HL7	Health Level Seven International
HPD	Healthcare Provider Directory
HPSA	Health Professional Shortage Area
HPSDA	Health Professional Shortage Area
HRSA	Health Resources and Services Administration
HTML	Hyper Text Markup Language
IAPD	Implementation Advance Planning Document
IAPD-U	Implementation Advance Planning Document-Update
ICD-10	International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision
ICM	Integrated Care Model
ID	Identifier
IHE	Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
IHS	Indian Health Service
IIS	Immunization Information System
IOM	Institute of Medicine
IR	Immunization Registry
IRS	Internal Revenue Service
IT	Information Technology
IV&V	Independent Verification & Validation
JWT	JSON Web Token
LOINC	Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes
MAPIR	Medical Assistance Provider Incentive Repository
MES	Medicaid Enterprise System
MBES	Medicaid Budget and Expenditure System
Mbps	Megabits per second
MCO	Managed Care Organization
MD	Medical Doctor
MeT	Medicaid EHR Team
MFCU	Medicaid Fraud Control Unit
MiHIN	Michigan Health Information Network
MIME	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MITA	Medicaid Information Technology Architecture
MMIS	Medicaid Management Information System
MPD	Master Provider Directory
MPI	Master Provider Index
MU	Meaningful Use
NLR	National Level Repository (CMS Registration and Attestation Module)
NP	Nurse Practitioner
NPI	National Provider Identifier
NPPES	National Plan and Provider Enumeration System
NQF	National Quality Forum
NQS	National Quality Strategy
NwHIN	Nationwide Health Information Network
OB	Obstetrician
OIG	Office of the Inspector General
OMB	Office of Management & Budget
ONC	Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
PA	Physician Assistant
PAPD	Planning Advance Planning Document
PCMH	Patient Centered Medical Home
PCP	Primary Care Provider
PCPM	Primary Care Payment Model
PECOS	Provider Enrollment, Chain, Ownership System
PHA	Public Health Agency
PHI	Protected Health Information
PHR	Personal Health Record
POS	Place of Service
PP	Practicing Predominantly
PQRS	Physician Quality Reporting System
PR	Pull Request
PROM	Patient Reported Outcome Measures
PV	Patient Volume
QA	Quality Assurance
QMS	Quality Management System
QRDA-I	Quality Reporting Document Architecture – Category I
QRDA-III	Quality Reporting Document Architecture – Category III
R&A	Registration and Attestation
R&S UI	Research & Support User Interface
RBAC	Role-based Access Control
RBRVS	Resource-Based Relative Value Scale
REC	Regional Extension Center
REST	REpresentational State Transfer
RHEL	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RFID	Radio-Frequency Identification
RFP	Request for Proposal
RHC	Rural Health Clinic (Center)
RLS	Record Locator Service
RO	Regional Office
S&CC	Standards and Certification Criteria
S3	AWS Simple Storage Service
SDE	State Designated Entity
SDLC	Systems Development Life Cycle
SHARP	Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects
SIM	State Innovation Model
SLR	State Level Repository
SMA	State Medicaid Agency
SMDL	State Medicaid Director's Letter
SMHP	State Medicaid HIT Plan
SNOMED CT	Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms
SOA	Service Oriented Architecture
SSA	Social Security Act
SSO	Single sign-on
TA	Technical Assistance
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TIN	Tax Identification Number
TOC	Transitions of Care
UDDI	Universal Discovery and Description Interface
VBP	Value Based Payment
VPN	Virtual Private Network
WAF	Web Application Firewall
XDS	Cross-enterprise Document Sharing
XML	Extensible Markup Language
XSD	Cross-enterprise Document Sharing