There are tons of Health IT jargons floating around. Not many of us would know or care to know what they are and whom they refer to. Here is a bunch of jargons and the source of origin.
ARRA - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [www.recovery.gov]
ARRA Healthcare Stimulus - Set of federal stimulus funding set aside for Healthcare reforms [read more]
HHS - US Dept. of Health and Human Services [link]
CMS - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Federal agency under Dept. of Health and Human Services [read more]
Meaningful Use for Providers and Hospitals - Set of criteria from HHS/CMS to prove meaningful use of EHR by Providers and Hospitals to receive payments under the Federal incentive program [read more]
CCHIT - Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, an independent non-profit organization promoting interoperability in Health IT [read more]
HITSP - Health Information Technology Standards Panel, a public-private partnership contracted by HHS responsible for bringing together various standards for achieving adoption of Health IT [link]
IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, an organization that publishes standards and specs for industry vendors to test and establish interoperability with other healthcare systems. [link]
PQRI - Physician Quality Reporting Initiative, a quality reporting system established by CMS for providers to report quality measures on the professional services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries. [link]
NQF - National Quality Forum, an non-profit organization established to identify and endorse quality improvement in Healthcare through use of Information Technology. [link]
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