Glossary
Healthcare IT, in plain English
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- EMR
- Electronic Medical Record — a digital version of a patient's chart used within a single practice.
- EHR
- Electronic Health Record — a broader record designed to be shared across providers and organizations.
- FHIR
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources — a modern HL7 standard for exchanging clinical data via REST APIs.
- HL7
- A family of healthcare data exchange standards; HL7 v2 is widely used for lab and ADT messages.
- HIPAA
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — US law governing the privacy and security of PHI.
- BAA
- Business Associate Agreement — a contract required by HIPAA between a covered entity and any vendor handling PHI.
- EPCS
- Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances — DEA-regulated electronic prescribing for Schedule II–V drugs.
- MIPS
- Merit-based Incentive Payment System — CMS quality program affecting Medicare reimbursement.
- HEDIS
- Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set — performance measures used by health plans.
- HIE
- Health Information Exchange — networks that move clinical data between organizations.
- TEFCA
- Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement — US national framework for nationwide health data sharing.
- SMART on FHIR
- An open standard for launching third-party clinical apps inside an EHR using FHIR APIs.
- CPOE
- Computerized Provider Order Entry — electronic ordering of medications, labs and procedures.
- PHI
- Protected Health Information — individually identifiable health information regulated by HIPAA.
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