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Acronyms

​​A List of Acronyms Related to Health Infor​m​a​tion Exchange 


ACO   ​
Accountable Care Organization  

ADT ​  
Admit, Discharge, Transfer 

AIMS  
APHL Informatics Messaging Services  

ANDREA Project​​ ​
Antimicrobial-resistance Notification Database & Repository for Electronic Alerting​ 

​APHL ​
Association of Public Health Laboratories 

API  ​
Application Programming Interface  

ARRA  ​
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act 

BA  ​
Business Analyst 

CAH  ​
Critical Access Hospital 

CCD ​
Continuity of Care Document 

C-CDA  ​
Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture  

CDA  ​
Clinical Document Architecture 

CDC  ​
Center for Disease Control and Prevention 

CEHRT  ​
Certified Electronic Health Record Technology 

​CFR  ​
Code of Federal Regulations 

CHFS ​
Cabinet for Health and Family Services  

CLIA  ​
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments 

CMS  ​
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services  

CO ​
Change Order 

CoP ​
CMS Condition of Participation

CSAT  ​
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment 

​​​​​CSE  ​
Child Support Enforcement

​​​​​CSS​
CRISP Shared Services 

DBHDID​
Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental, and Intellectual Disabilities

DCBS  ​
Department for Community Based Services 

DDE  ​
Direct Data Entry  

DLS   ​
Department of Laboratory Services 

DOB  ​
Date of Birth 

DMS  ​
Department for Medicaid Services 

DPH  ​
Department for Public Health 

DSM  ​
Direct Secure Messaging

eCR  ​
Electronic Case Reporting  

ED​
Emergency Department  

EDC  ​
Estimated Due Date  

ER  ​
Emergency Room  

eICR   ​
Electronic Initial Case Report

EHR  ​
Electronic Health Record 

ELR  ​
Electronic Laboratory Reporting

EMR  ​
Electronic Medical Record 

EMS  ​
Emergency Medical Services 

EP  ​
Eligible Provider

ePHI   ​
Electronic Protected Health Information

EPID  FORMS​
EPID 200 and EPID 250:  Kentucky Reportable Disease Forms used by the Department for Public Health to report and record the details of a communicable disease and/or notifiable condition.  The forms available in the Direct Data Entry functionality are based on these paper forms.

FDA    ​
Food and Drug Administration  ​

FHIR  ​
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Response 

HAI ​
Hospital-Acquired Infections
Healthcare-Associated Infections 

HHS  ​
Health and Human Services 

HIE   ​
Health Information Exchange

HIE ADMIN/KHIE ADMIN​
KHIE Administrator

HIPAA  ​
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 

HISP  ​
Health Information Service Provider

HIT  ​
Health Information Technology

HITECH   ​
Health Information Technology For Economic & Clinical Health 

HL7 ​
Health Level Seven 

​IAPD   ​
Implementation Advanced Planning Document

ICD  ​
International Classification of Diseases 

IHE​
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

KASPER​
Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting

KAR ​
Kentucky Administrative Regulation
 
KCR ​
Kentucky Cancer Registry

KDPH ​
Kentucky Department for Public Health

KHIE ​
Kentucky Health Information Exchange

KYIR ​
Kentucky Immunization Registry

​LOE​
Level of Effort 

LOINC​
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

NPI ​
National Provider Identifier

MCO​
Managed Care Organization 

MDM ​
Medical Decision Making

POC ​
Point of Care
Point of Contact
Proof of Concept

PDMP ​
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

PNR ​
Provide and Register 

QNR ​
Query and Retrieve 

SNOMED CT​
Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms

TSU  
Technical User Support ​


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