The Many Shortened Words and Titles in the Medical Setting!
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| AAPC | American Academy of Professional Coders
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| ACMPE | American College of Medical Practice Executives
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| ACS | American College of Surgeons
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| AHDI | Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity
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| AHIMA | American Health Information Management Association
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| AMIA | American Medical Informatics Association
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| ANSI | American National Standards Institute
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| APC | Ambulatory Payment Classification
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| ARLNA | Association of Record Librarians of North America
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| CCOW | Clinical Context Object Workgroup
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| CEO | Chief Executive Officer
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| CIO | Chief Information Officer
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| CIS | Clinical Information System
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| CMT | Certified Medical Transcriptionist
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| COO | Chief Operating Officer
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| CTR | Certified Tumor Registrar
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| DISA | Data Interchange Standards Association (within ANSI)
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| DRG | Diagnosis-Related Group
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| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange
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| EHR | Electronic Health Record
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| EMR | Electronic Medical Record
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| HCPCS | Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
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| HIM | Health Information Management
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| HIMSS | Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
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| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
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| HIS | Health Information System
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| HIT | Health Information Technology; Health Information Technician
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| HL7 | Health Level 7 (within ANSI)
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| ICD-9-CM | International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification
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| IOM | Institute of Medicine
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| IT | Information Technology
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| AHA | American Hospital Association
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| ALOS | Average Length of Stay
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| AMA | Against Medical Advice; also American Medical Association
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| ANA | American Nurses Association
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| ASHA | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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| CAT | Computerized Axial Tomography
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| CCC | Certificate of Clinical Competence
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| CFO | Chief Financial Officer
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| CNO | Chief Nursing Officer
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| CRNA | Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
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| ER | Emergency Room or Emergency Department
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| HCA | Home Care Aide
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| HHA | Home Health Aide
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| ICU | Intensive Care Unit
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| JAMA | Journal of the American Medical Association
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| LPN | Licensed Practical Nurse
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| LVN | Licensed Vocational Nurse
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| LOS | Length of Stay
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| MD | Medical Doctor
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| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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| MSO | Management Service Organization
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| OT | Occupational Therapist
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| PA | Physician Assistant
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| PT | Physical Therapist
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| RD | Registered Dietitian
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| RN | Registered Nurse
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| RT | Respiratory Therapist
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| SA | Surgeon Assistant
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| SNF | Skilled Nursing Facility
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| CAP | College of American Pathologists
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| CARF | Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
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| CDC | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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| CMS | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly known as Health Care Financing Administration)
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| COB | Coordination of Benefits
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| COP | Conditions of Participation (Medicare)
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| CPT-4 | Current Procedural Terminology, Fourth Edition
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| DEA | Drug Enforcement Agency
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| EIN | Employer Identification Number
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| EPHI | Protected Health Information in Electronic Form
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| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation
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| FDA | Food and Drug Administration
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| HHS | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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| JCAHO | Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (now referred to simply as the Joint Commission)
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| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding (between Government entities)
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| NPI | National Provider Identifier
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| OCR | Office of Civil Rights
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| PHI | Protected Health Information
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| PIN | Personal Identification Number
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| PPS | Prospective Payment System
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| PRO | Peer Review Organization (now Quality Improvement Organization)
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| PSRO | Professional Standards Review Organization
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| QIO | Quality Improvement Organization (formerly Peer Review Organization)
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| UM | Utilization Management
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| WAN | Wide-Area Network
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| MGMA | Medical Group Management Association
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| NAHQ | National Association for Healthcare Quality
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| NCRA | National Cancer Registrars Association
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| OR | Operating Room
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| Portable Document Format
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| RFID | Radio-Frequency Identification
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| RHIA | Registered Health Information Administrator
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| RHIT | Registered Health Information Technician
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| SDO | Standards Developing Organization (within ANSI)
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| CPR | Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
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| CT | Computed Tomography (also CAT, Computerized Axial Tomography)
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| DEEDS | Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems
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| DNR | Do Not Resuscitate
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| ECG | Electrocardiogram (also ECG)
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| EEG | Electroencephalogram
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| EKG | Electrocardiogram (also ECG)
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| HEDIS | Health Plan Employer Data and Information System
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| HPI | History of Present Illness
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| IDN | Integrated Delivery Network
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| MDS | Minimum Data Set
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| MPI | Master Patient Index
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| NCDB | National Caner Data Base
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| NCVHS | National Committee on Vital Health Statistics
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| NHIN | National Health Information Network
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| OASIS | Outcome and Assessment Information Set
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| PACS OR PAC SYSTEM | Picture Archiving and Communication System
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| PET | Positron Emission Tomography
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| PHR | Personal Health Record
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| RAI | Resident Assessment Instrument
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| RHIO | Regional Health Information Organization
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| SOAP | Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan
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| UACDS | Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set
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| UAMCMDS | Uniform Ambulatory Medical Care Minimum Data Set
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| UCDS | Uniform Clinical Data Set
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| UHDDS | Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set
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| CD | Compact Disk
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| DVD | Digital Video Disk
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| FTE | Full-Time Equivalent Employee
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| OCR | Optical Character Recognition
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| VPN | Virtual Private Network
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| ABN | Advance Beneficiary Notice
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| AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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| CDR | Clinical Data Repository
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| CPOE | Computerized Physician Order Entry; Computerized Provider Order Entry
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| CPRI | Computer-Based Patient Record Institute
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| CT SCAN | Computerized Tomography Scan
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| DUR | Drug Utilization Review
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| Dx | Diagnosis
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| ECG OR EKG | Electrocardiogram
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| Hx | History
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| LOINC | Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
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| OB | Obstetrics
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| Px | Physical Examination
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| Rx | Therapy (Including Prescriptions)
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| SNOMED-CT | SNOMED Stands for Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine; CT Stands for Clinical Terms
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| ADT | Admission, Discharge, Transfer system
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| CDR | Clinical Data Respiratory
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| CPOE | Computerized Physician Order Entry; Computerized Provider Order Entry
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| DICOM | Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
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| DUR | Drug Utilization Review
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| ECG | Electrocardiiogram
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| EMT | Emergency Medical Technician
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| ER | Emergency Room or Department
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| IV | Intravenous
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| LIS | Laboratory Information System
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| MPI | Master Patient Index
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| NMDP | National Marrow Donor Program
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