| ACA |
Affordable Care Act |
| ACA (PPACA) |
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 |
| ACO |
Accountable Care Organization |
| ADT |
Admissions, Discharges, Transfers |
| AIU |
Adopt, Implement, Upgrade |
| APCD |
All Payer Claims Database |
| APD |
Advance Planning Document |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| APM |
Alternative Payment Model |
| ARRA |
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
| ATCB |
Authorized Testing and Certification Body |
| AWS |
Amazon Web Services |
| BA |
Business Associates |
| BI |
Business Intelligence |
| C&S |
Conditions and Standards |
| CAH |
Critical Access Hospital |
| CALiPHR |
CQM Aligned Population Health Reporting |
| CBES |
State Children's Health Insurance Budget and Expenditure System |
| CCD |
Continuity of Care Document |
| CCIIO |
Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight |
| CCN |
CMS Certification Number |
| CCR |
Continuity of Care Record |
| CDA |
Clinical Document Architecture |
| CDC |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CDR |
Clinical Data Repository |
| CDS |
Clinical Decision Support |
| CE |
Covered Entities |
| CEHRT |
Certified Electronic Health Record Technology |
| CFR |
Technology Code of Federal Regulations |
| CHIP |
Children's Health Insurance Program |
| CHPL |
Certified Health Information Technology Products List |
| CI/CD |
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery |
| CMS |
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| CMS (EUA) |
Enterprise User Administration |
| CNM |
Certified Nurse Midwife |
| CO |
Central Office |
| CoP |
Community of Practice |
| CPC |
Comprehensive Primary Care |
| CPOE |
Computerized Physician Order Entry |
| CQMs |
Clinical Quality Measures |
| CRISP |
Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients |
| CSD |
Clinical Services Discovery |
| CY |
Calendar Year |
| DDI |
Design, Develop, Implement |
| DICOM |
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine |
| DSG |
Data and Systems Group |
| DSM |
Direct Secure Messaging |
| E&E |
Eligibility & Enrollment |
| EC2 |
AWS Elastic Compute Cloud |
| eCQM |
Electronic Clinical Quality Measure |
| eCQMR |
Electronic Clinical Quality Measures Repository |
| EH |
Eligible Hospital |
| EHR |
Electronic Health Record |
| ELR |
Electronic Laboratory Record |
| eMAR |
Electronic Medication Administration Record |
| EP |
Eligible Professional |
| ePHI |
Electronic protected health information |
| e-prescribing |
Electronic Prescribing |
| eRx |
Electronic Prescribing |
| ESB |
Enterprise Service Bus |
| EUA |
End User Application |
| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Question |
| FAQs |
Frequently Asked Questions |
| FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
| FedRAMP |
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program |
| FERPA |
Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act |
| FFP |
Federal Financial Participation |
| FFS |
Fee-for-Service |
| FFY |
Federal Fiscal Year |
| FHIR |
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources |
| FISMA |
Federal Information Security Management Act |
| FMAP |
Federal Medical Assistance Percentage |
| FQHC |
Federally Qualified Health Center |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| FY |
Fiscal Year |
| HCBS |
Home and Community Based Services |
| HCD |
Human Centered Design |
| HcDir |
ONC/FHA Healthcare Directory |
| HEDIS |
Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set |
| HHS |
Health and Human Services |
| HIE |
Health Information Exchange |
| HIO |
Health Information Organization |
| HIPAA |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| HIS |
Hospital Information System |
| HIT |
Health Information Technology |
| HITECH |
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act |
| HITECH TA |
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Technical Assistance |
| HL7 |
Health Level Seven International |
| HPD |
Healthcare Provider Directory |
| HPSA |
Health Professional Shortage Area |
| HPSDA |
Health Professional Shortage Area |
| HRSA |
Health Resources and Services Administration |
| HTML |
Hyper Text Markup Language |
| IAPD |
Implementation Advance Planning Document |
| IAPD-U |
Implementation Advance Planning Document-Update |
| ICD-10 |
International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision |
| ICM |
Integrated Care Model |
| ID |
Identifier |
| IHE |
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise |
| IHS |
Indian Health Service |
| IIS |
Immunization Information System |
| IOM |
Institute of Medicine |
| IR |
Immunization Registry |
| IRS |
Internal Revenue Service |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| IV&V |
Independent Verification & Validation |
| JWT |
JSON Web Token |
| LOINC |
Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes |
| MAPIR |
Medical Assistance Provider Incentive Repository |
| MES |
Medicaid Enterprise System |
| MBES |
Medicaid Budget and Expenditure System |
| Mbps |
Megabits per second |
| MCO |
Managed Care Organization |
| MD |
Medical Doctor |
| MeT |
Medicaid EHR Team |
| MFCU |
Medicaid Fraud Control Unit |
| MiHIN |
Michigan Health Information Network |
| MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| MITA |
Medicaid Information Technology Architecture |
| MMIS |
Medicaid Management Information System |
| MPD |
Master Provider Directory |
| MPI |
Master Provider Index |
| MU |
Meaningful Use |
| NLR |
National Level Repository (CMS Registration and Attestation Module) |
| NP |
Nurse Practitioner |
| NPI |
National Provider Identifier |
| NPPES |
National Plan and Provider Enumeration System |
| NQF |
National Quality Forum |
| NQS |
National Quality Strategy |
| NwHIN |
Nationwide Health Information Network |
| OB |
Obstetrician |
| OIG |
Office of the Inspector General |
| OMB |
Office of Management & Budget |
| ONC |
Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT |
| PA |
Physician Assistant |
| PAPD |
Planning Advance Planning Document |
| PCMH |
Patient Centered Medical Home |
| PCP |
Primary Care Provider |
| PCPM |
Primary Care Payment Model |
| PECOS |
Provider Enrollment, Chain, Ownership System |
| PHA |
Public Health Agency |
| PHI |
Protected Health Information |
| PHR |
Personal Health Record |
| POS |
Place of Service |
| PP |
Practicing Predominantly |
| PQRS |
Physician Quality Reporting System |
| PR |
Pull Request |
| PROM |
Patient Reported Outcome Measures |
| PV |
Patient Volume |
| QA |
Quality Assurance |
| QMS |
Quality Management System |
| QRDA-I |
Quality Reporting Document Architecture – Category I |
| QRDA-III |
Quality Reporting Document Architecture – Category III |
| R&A |
Registration and Attestation |
| R&S UI |
Research & Support User Interface |
| RBAC |
Role-based Access Control |
| RBRVS |
Resource-Based Relative Value Scale |
| REC |
Regional Extension Center |
| REST |
REpresentational State Transfer |
| RHEL |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux |
| RFID |
Radio-Frequency Identification |
| RFP |
Request for Proposal |
| RHC |
Rural Health Clinic (Center) |
| RLS |
Record Locator Service |
| RO |
Regional Office |
| S&CC |
Standards and Certification Criteria |
| S3 |
AWS Simple Storage Service |
| SDE |
State Designated Entity |
| SDLC |
Systems Development Life Cycle |
| SHARP |
Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects |
| SIM |
State Innovation Model |
| SLR |
State Level Repository |
| SMA |
State Medicaid Agency |
| SMDL |
State Medicaid Director's Letter |
| SMHP |
State Medicaid HIT Plan |
| SNOMED CT |
Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SSA |
Social Security Act |
| SSO |
Single sign-on |
| TA |
Technical Assistance |
| TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TIN |
Tax Identification Number |
| TOC |
Transitions of Care |
| UDDI |
Universal Discovery and Description Interface |
| VBP |
Value Based Payment |
| VPN |
Virtual Private Network |
| WAF |
Web Application Firewall |
| XDS |
Cross-enterprise Document Sharing |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
| XSD |
Cross-enterprise Document Sharing |