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Acronym

Literal Translation

AAAssigning Authority
ACPAccess Consent Policy

AD

Administrative Distribution

AHICAmerican Health Information Community
AIAAuthority Information Access
AKIAuthority Key Identifier

API

Application Programming Interface

ARRA

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

ASC

Accredited Standards Committee

ATNA

Audit Trail and Node Authentication

BR

Business Requirement

CACertificate Authority

CAQH

The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare

CCBChange Control Board
CCCBCustomer Configuration Control Board

CCHIT

Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology

CIContinuous Integration

CMS

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

CNCommon Number or Entrust Reference Number
CORECommittee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange
CPOEComputerized Physician Order Entry
C-CDAConsolidated-Clinical Document Architecture
CRLCertification Revocation List
CSRCertificate Signing Request
CXFMerger of "Celtix" and "Xfire"
DDSDocument Data Submission
DERDistinguished Encoding Rules
DILDeveloper's Integration Lab

DOD

Department of Defense

DNSDomain Name System
DPDDeferred Patient Discovery
DQDocument Query
DQMDocument Queue Manager
DR
  1. Document Retrieve
  2. Deferred Request

DS

Document Submission

DSNDelivery Status Notifications

DURSA

Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement

EAPEnterprise Application Platform
EAREnterprise Application aRchive

EHR

Electronic Health Record

ePHIElectronic Protected Health Information

ESB

Enterprise Service Bus

ETTNIST Edge Testing Tool

FHA

Federal Health Architecture

FHIMFederal Health Information Model

FHIR

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

FIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard

FISMA

Federal Information Security Management Act

FR

Functional Requirement

GAGeneral Available
GCGarbage Collection
GFEGovernment Furnished Equipment
GUIGraphical User Interface
G2GGateway to Gateway
HCIDHome Community ID

HHS

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

HIE

Health Information Exchange

HIEM

Health Information Event Messaging

HIH

Health Information Handler

HIO

Health Information Organization

HIPPAHealth Information Portability and Accountability Act
HISPHealth Information Service Providers

HITECH

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act

HITSP

Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel

HL7Health Level 7: A set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers.
HPDHealthcare Provider Directory

HTTPS

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

IACPInstance Access Control Policy
IDEIntegrated Development Environment

IDN

Integrated Delivery Network

IEEE

Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.

IHE

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

ISAInteroperability Standards Advisory

IT

Information Technology

ITIIHE IT Infrastructure domain addresses the implementation of standards-based interoperability solutions to improve information sharing, workflow and patient care.
ITPInteroperability Testing Platform

IV&V

Independent Validation and Verification

JBOSSJavaBeans Open Source 
JCEJava Cryptography Extension
JDKJava Development Kit
JKSJava Key Store
JSSEOracle Java Secure Socket Extension
JSFJava Server Faces

JVM

Java Virtual Machine

LDAPLightweight Directory Access Protocol
LOBLine of Business
MAAMultiple Assigning Authority Identifiers
MDNMessage Deposition Notification

MPI

Master Patient Index

MTAMail Transfer Agent
MUMeaningful Use

NFR

Non-Functional Requirement

NwHIN

Nationwide Health Information Network

NHIE
  1. NwHIN enabled Health Information organizational/health exchange organization.
  2. NHIN-compliant Health Information exchanges
NHINNationwide Health Information Network

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology
NSSMozilla Network Security Services 
OCSPOnline Certificate Status Protocol
OISThe Office of Interoperability and Standards

ONC

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

OpenSSOOpen Source Single Signon
OUOrganization Unit Name
OWASPOpen Web Application Security Project
PCCBProgram Configuration Control Board

PD

Patient Discovery

PDMPPrescription Drug Monitoring Program
PDPPolicy Decision Point
PEPPolicy Enforcement Point
PHDSCPublic Health Data Standards Consortium
PHIProtected Health Information

PHR

Personal Health Record

PIPPolicy Information Point
PKIPublic Key Infrastructure
PKIXPublic Key Infrastructure for X509 certificates
PLQPatient Location Query Service

PMO

Program Management Office

PMP

Project Management Plan

QA

Quality Assurance

QD

Query for Documents

QOSQuality of Service
RCRelease Candidates

RD

Retrieve Documents

RSD

Requirements Specification Document

RTM

Requirements Traceability Matrix

SAMSystem Administration Module

SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language

SANSubject Alternative Name
SASLSimple Authentic Security Layer
SDKSoftware Development Kit
SEISoftware Engineering Institute
SHASecure Hash Algorithm

SOA

Service-oriented architecture

SOAPSimple Object Access Protocol

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SMTPSimple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNIServer Name Indication

SSA

Social Security Administration

SSLSecure Sockets Layer
STASecurity/Trust Agents
TATRCTelemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center

TLS

Transport Layer Security

UCUniversal Client
UDDIUniversal Description Discovery and Integration
UMLUnified Modeling Language

UR

User Requirement

URLUniform Resource Locator
UUIDUniversal Unique Identifer

VA

Department of Veterans Affairs

VCSVersion Control Software

VLER

Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record

V&BViews & Beyond
WSDLWeb Services Description Language

XCAML

Extensible Access Control Markup Language

XCPD

Cross-Community Patient Discovery

XDM

Cross-Enterprise Document Media Interchange

XDR

Cross-Enterprise Document Reliable Interchange

XSPA

Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization

XML

Extensible Markup Language

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