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First Semester
Acronyms and Definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| CDA | Clinical Documentation Architecture [utilized by HL7] |
| HL7 | Health Level Seven, Inc. Standards for electronic interchange of clinical, financial, and administrative information among health care oriented computer systems. |
| AMC | Academic Medical Center. Partnerships between a medical school and its affiliated teaching hospitals and clinics. |
| CBO | Congressional Budget Office. Primary congressional agency charged with reviewing congressional budgets and other legislative initiatives with budgetary implications. |
| CCR | Continuity of Care Record. The CCR standard, often referred to simply as the CCR standard or CCR, is a patient health summary standard, widely used for secure, computable, electronic capture and transfers of personal health data fm 1 health IT to other |
| CDA | Clinical Document Architecture. A document markup standard that specifies the structure and semantics of "clinical documents" for the purpose of exchange. The CCDA is the primary standard for clinical document exchange in the US. |
| CPR | Computer-based Patient Record. A repository of electronically maintained information about an individual's lifetime health status and health care, stored such that it can serve the multiple legitimate users of the record. |
| C-CDA | Consolidated |
| SOAP Note | Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan. A type of Progress Note with a specific set of headings in a specific order, indicated by the acronym "SOAP." |
| a.c. | before meals |