CONNECT Acronyms
- Sovann Huynh
- Eric McDonald (Unlicensed)
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 |
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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:Â 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 |
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| MTA | Mail Transfer Agent |
| MU | Meaningful Use |
NFR | Non-Functional Requirement |
NwHIN | Nationwide Health Information Network |
| NHIE |
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| 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 |