| AIMS |
APHL Informatics Messaging Services |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| APHL |
Association of Public Health Laboratories |
| API |
application program interface |
| ASTHO |
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials |
| CCD |
Continuity of Care Document |
| C-CDA R2.1 CG |
C-CDA Templates for Clinical Notes R2.1 Companion Guide, Release 1 |
| C-CDA R2.1 |
Consolidated CDA Templates for Clinical Notes, DSTU 2.1 |
| CDA R2 |
Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2 |
| CDC |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CDS |
clinical decision support |
| CPT |
Current Procedural Terminology |
| CQL |
Clinical Quality Language |
| CSELS |
Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services |
| CSTE |
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists |
| DAM |
Domain Analysis Model |
| eCR |
electronic case reporting |
| EHR |
electronic health record |
| eICR IG |
Public Health Case Report - the Electronic Initial Case Report |
| eICR |
electronic initial case report |
| ELR |
electronic laboratory report |
| EMR |
electronic medical record |
| eRSD |
electronic Reporting and Surveillance Distribution |
| ESP |
Electronic Support for Public Health |
| FHIR |
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources |
| HIE |
Health Information Exchange |
| HITSP |
Health Information Technology Standards Panel |
| HL7 |
Health Level Seven |
| ICD |
International Classification of Diseases |
| ICP |
infection control professional |
| IG |
implementation guide |
| IHE |
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise |
| ISO |
International Standards Organization |
| IT |
information technology |
| LMP |
last menstrual period |
| LOINC |
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes |
| MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions |
| NCD |
Notifiable Condition Detector |
| NCEZID |
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases |
| NCHHSTP |
National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention |
| NIOSH |
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
| NNDSS |
Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance System |
| NPI |
National Provider Identifier |
| NUBC |
National Uniform Billing Committee |
| NUCC |
National Uniform Claim Committee |
| ODH |
Occupational Data for Health |
| OID |
object identifier |
| ONC |
Office of National Coordinator for Health IT |
| PH |
public health |
| PHA |
public health agency |
| PHCP |
Public Health Community Platform |
| PHRI |
Public Health Case Reporting Initiative |
| PHWG |
HL7 Public Health Working Group |
| RCKMS |
Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System |
| RCTC |
reportable condition trigger code |
| RFD |
Retrieve Form for Data Capture |
| RHIO |
Regional Health Information Organization |
| S&I |
Standards and Interoperability |
| SDC |
Structured Data Capture |
| SDWG |
HL7 Structured Documents Working Group |
| SMART |
Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies |
| SNOMED CT |
Systemized Nomenclature for Medicine – Clinical Terms |
| SSN |
Social Security Number |
| STU |
Standard for Trial Use |
| UCUM |
Unified Code for Units of Measure |
| URL |
uniform resource locator |
| URN |
uniform resource name |
| USCDI |
U.S. Core Data for Interoperability |
| VIS |
Vaccine Information Statement |
| XML |
eXtensible Markup language |
| XPath |
XML Path Language |