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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 

APHL 
Association of Public Health Laboratories 

API  
Application Programming Interface  

ARRA  
KHIE 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 
Condition of Participation

CSAT  
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment 

​​​​​CSE  
Child Support Enforcement

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  
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.

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

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

SNOMED CT
Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms