Table: Acronyms

Acronym	Literal Translation
AA	Assigning Authority
ACP	Access Consent Policy
AD	Administrative Distribution
AHIC	American Health Information Community
AIA	Authority Information Access
AKI	Authority 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
CA	Certificate Authority
CAQH	The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare
CCB	Change Control Board
CCCB	Customer Configuration Control Board
CCHIT	Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
CI	Continuous Integration
CMS	Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CN	Common Number or Entrust Reference Number
CORE	Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange
CPOE	Computerized Physician Order Entry
C-CDA	Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture
CRL	Certification Revocation List
CSR	Certificate Signing Request
CXF	Merger of "Celtix" and "Xfire"
DDS	Document Data Submission
DER	Distinguished Encoding Rules
DIL	Developer's Integration Lab
DOD	Department of Defense
DNS	Domain Name System
DPD	Deferred Patient Discovery
DQ	Document Query
DQM	Document Queue Manager
DR	Document Retrieve Deferred Request
DS	Document Submission
DSN	Delivery Status Notifications
DURSA	Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement
EAP	Enterprise Application Platform
EAR	Enterprise Application aRchive
EHR	Electronic Health Record
EMR	Electronic Medical Record
ePHI	Electronic Protected Health Information
ESB	Enterprise Service Bus
ETT	NIST Edge Testing Tool
FHA	Federal Health Architecture
FHIM	Federal Health Information Model
FHIR	Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standard
FISMA	Federal Information Security Management Act
FR	Functional Requirement
GA	General Available
GC	Garbage Collection
GFE	Government Furnished Equipment
GUI	Graphical User Interface
G2G	Gateway to Gateway
HCID	Home 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
HIPPA	Health Information Portability and Accountability Act
HIS	Hospital Information System
HISP	Health Information Service Providers
HITECH	Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
HITSP	Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
HL7	Health Level 7: A set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers.
HoK	Holder of Key
HPD	Healthcare Provider Directory
HTTPS	Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
IACP	Instance Access Control Policy
IDE	Integrated Development Environment
IDN	Integrated Delivery Network
IEEE	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.
IHE	Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
ISA	Interoperability Standards Advisory
IT	Information Technology
ITI	IHE IT Infrastructure domain addresses the implementation of standards-based interoperability solutions to improve information sharing, workflow and patient care.
ITP	Interoperability Testing Platform
IV&V	Independent Validation and Verification
JBOSS	JavaBeans Open Source
JCE	Java Cryptography Extension
JDK	Java Development Kit
JKS	Java Key Store
JSSE	Oracle Java Secure Socket Extension
JSF	Java Server Faces
JVM	Java Virtual Machine
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LOB	Line of Business
MAA	Multiple Assigning Authority Identifiers
MDN	Message Deposition Notification
MPI	Master Patient Index Message Passing Interface
MTA	Mail Transfer Agent
MU	Meaningful Use
NFR	Non-Functional Requirement
NwHIN	Nationwide Health Information Network
NHIE	NwHIN enabled Health Information organizational/health exchange organization. NHIN-compliant Health Information exchanges
NHIN	Nationwide Health Information Network
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology
NSS	Mozilla Network Security Services
OCSP	Online Certificate Status Protocol
OIS	The Office of Interoperability and Standards
ONC	Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
OpenSSO	Open Source Single Signon
OU	Organization Unit Name
OWASP	Open Web Application Security Project
PCCB	Program Configuration Control Board
PD	Patient Discovery
PDMP	Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
PDP	Policy Decision Point
PEP	Policy Enforcement Point
PHDSC	Public Health Data Standards Consortium
PHI	Protected Health Information
PHR	Personal Health Record
PIP	Policy Information Point
PKI	Public Key Infrastructure
PKIX	Public Key Infrastructure for X509 certificates
PLQ	Patient Location Query Service
PMO	Program Management Office
PMP	Project Management Plan
QA	Quality Assurance
QD	Query for Documents
QOS	Quality of Service
RC	Release Candidates
RD	Retrieve Documents
RSD	Requirements Specification Document
RTM	Requirements Traceability Matrix
SAM	System Administration Module
SAML	Security Assertion Markup Language
SAN	Subject Alternative Name
SASL	Simple Authentic Security Layer
SDK	Software Development Kit
SEI	Software Engineering Institute
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithm
SKI	Secure Key Identifier
SOA	Service-oriented architecture
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNI	Server Name Indication
SSA	Social Security Administration
SSH	Secure Shell
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer
STA	Security/Trust Agents
TATRC	Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center
TLS	Transport Layer Security
UC	Universal Client
UDDI	Universal Description Discovery and Integration
UML	Unified Modeling Language
UR	User Requirement
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
UUID	Universal Unique Identifer
VA	Department of Veterans Affairs
VCS	Version Control Software
VLER	Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record
V&B	Views & Beyond
WSDL	Web 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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