| AMA |
American Medical Association |
| API |
Application Programming Interface |
| BMI |
Body Mass Index |
| CDS |
Clinical Decision Support |
| CDSS |
Clinical Decision Support System |
| CEHRT |
Certified Electronic Health Record Technology |
| CMS |
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid |
| CPT |
Current Procedural Terminology |
| EHR |
Electronic Health Record |
| FHIR |
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources |
| GINA |
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 |
| HCPCS |
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System |
| HHS |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| HIE |
Health Information Exchange |
| HIPAA |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| HIT |
Health Information Technology |
| HITECH |
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health |
| HL7 |
Health Level 7 |
| ICD-10 |
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (Tenth Revision) |
| IG |
Implementation Guide |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| JSON |
JavaScript Object Notation |
| LOINC |
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes |
| MACRA |
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act |
| MU |
Meaningful Use |
| NDC |
National Drug Code |
| NHIN |
National Health Information Network |
| NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
| NLM |
National Library of Medicine |
| ONC |
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
| PHI |
Protected Health Information |
| PII |
Personally Identifiable Information |
| PLA |
Proprietary Laboratory Analyses |
| SDoH |
Social Determinants of Health |
| SNOMED CT |
Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms |
| UCUM |
Unified Code for Units of Measure |
| UI |
User Interface |
| USCDI |
United States Core Data for Interoperability |