15 Acronyms
2D — two-dimensional
3D — three-dimensional
6WINIT — Pv6 Wireless INternet IniTiative
ACL — Access Control List
ACR — American College of Radiology
ACR-NEMA — American College of Radiology - National Electrical
Manufacturers Association
ADC — Analog-Digital Converter
ADL — Advanced Distributed Learning
ADL — openEHR Archetype Description Language
ADSL — Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
ADT — Admit Discharge Transfer
AGR — AICC Guidelines and Recommendations
AICC — The Aviation Industry CBT Committee
AIDS — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
ANSI — The American National Standards Institute
ASHA — American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
ASP — Application Service Provider
ASTM — American Society for the Testing of Materials
ATM — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
AVI — Audio Video Interleaved
BLS — U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics
BRA — Basic Rate Access
CAS — Clinical Appointment System
CBAC — Context-Based Access Control
CBT — Computer-Based Training
CC — Common Criteria
CCITT — Committee Communication International Telephone and Telegram
CDA — Clinical Document Architecture
CDA — HL7 Clinical Document Architecture
CDMA — Code Division Multiple Access
CEN — Comité Européen de Normalisation (European Committee for
Standardization)
CHESS — Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System
CM UJ — Collegium Medicum Jagellonian University
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CME — Continuing Medical Education
COM — Component Object Model
CORBA — Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CORBAmed — the division of CORBA that is devoted to the domain of
healthcare
CPE — Customer Premises Equipment
CPR — Computer-based Patient Record
CPRI — Computer-based Patient Record Institute
CRT — Cathode Ray Tube
CT — Computed Tomography
CTCPEC — Canadian Trusted Computer Product Evaluation Criteria
CUI — Unique Concept Identifier
dB — Decibel
DCOM — Distributed Component Object Model
DDB00 — Malcolm Duncan's Diseases Database 2000
DICOM — Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DIMDI — German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information
DoD — Department of Defense
DRGs — Diagnostic Related Groupings
DSL — Digital Subscriber Line
DVL — Digital Video Library
ECG — Electrocardiogram
EDGE — Enhanced Data Rate for Global Evolution
EDGE — Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution
EDI — Electronic Data Interchange
EDIFACT — Electronic Data Interchange for Administration Commerce and
Transport
EEG — Electroencephalography
EFMI — European Federation for Medical Informatics
EHCR — Electronic Healthcare Record Communication
EHCR Support Action — Electronic Healthcare Record Support Action project
EHR — Electronic Health Record
EHRcom — ENV 13606
EIRP — Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
EITS — The European Institute of Telesurgery
EJB — Enterprise Java Beans
ENV — European Prestandard
FHCR — Federated Healthcare Record
FPS — Frames Per Second
FTP — File Transfer Protocol
GEHR — Good European Health Record project
GINA — Global Initiative For Asthma
GOLD — Global Initiative For Chronic Obstructive Lung Diseases
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GP — General Practitioner
GPRS — General Packet Radio Service
GPS — Global Positioning System
GR — Geometrically Rendered Images
GSM — Global System for Mobile Communication
GUI — Graphical User Interface
HIPAA — The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIS — Hospital Information System
HISA — Health Information Systems Architecture
HIV— Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HL — Hearing Level
HL7 — Health Level Seven
HMD — HL7 Hierarchical Message Definition
HSCSD — High Speed Circuit Switched Data
HSCSD — High Speed Circuit Switched Data
HTML — HyperText Markup Language
HTN — Health Telematic Network
HTTP — HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTPS — Hyper Text Transfer Protocol with Secure Sockets Layer
HU — Hounsfield Units
ICD — International Classification of Diseases
ICD-10 — The Tenth Revision of the International Statistical Classification of
Diseases and Related Health Problems
ICD10AM — the Australian Modification of ICD10
ICD-9-CM — International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical
Modification
ICP — Integrated Care Pathway
ICPC2E — International Classification of Primary Care 2nd Edition
ICPC2P — International Classification of Primary Care, Version 2-Plus,
Australian Modification
ICPM — International Classification of Procedures in Medicine
ICPM-DE — International Classification of Procedures in Medicine, Dutch
Extension
ICT — Information and Communication Technology
IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IGS — Image-guided Surgery
IHE — Integrating the Health Environment
IMS — IMS Global Learning Consortium
IP — Internet Protocol
ISDN — Integrated Services Digital Network
ISM — Industry, Science and Medical
ISO — International Standards Organisation
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ISO TC/215 — CEN Technical Committee responsible for health
interoperability standards
ISO TS — ISO draft Technical Specification
IST — Information Society Technologies
ITSEC — Information Technology Security Evaluation Criteria
J2EE — Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
JMX — Java Management Extensions
JPEG — Joint Photographic Experts Group
KCT — Krakow Centre of Telemedicine
LAN — Local Area Network
LED — Light Emitting Diode
LGOB — Loudness Growth in half-Octave Bands
LIS — Laboratory Information System
LMDS — Local Multipoint Distribution System
LMS — Learning Management Systems
LNP — Laparoscopic Navigation Pointer
LRT — Long Running Transaction
LSB — Least Significant Byte
MAC — Media Access Control
Mb — Megabits
MDS — Media Data Store
MDVL — Medical Digital Video Library
MEDICL — Medical Diagnosis and Computer-aided Learning
MEDLINE — life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information search
engine
MENiS — Polish Ministry of Education and Sport
MeSH — Medical Subject Headings
MIT — Massachusets Institute of Technology
MMVV — Multi-Modal Volume Visualizer
MOS — Mean Opinion Score
MPEG-1 — Moving Pictures Experts Group coding standard
MR — Magnetic Resonance
MRA — MR Angiography Images
MRI — Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MTHICD9 — NLM-generated entry terms for ICD-9-CM
NEMA — National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NFS — Network File System
NHS — National Health Service
NHS CCC — National Health Service Centre for Coding and Classification
NIC — Network Interface Card
NLM — The National Library of Medicine
NMR — Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NPfIT — The National Programme for IT
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OASIS — Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards
OFDM — Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
OMG-HDTF — Object Management Group Health Domain Task Force
openEHR — openEHR Foundation
OR — Operating Room
OSD — Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSI — Open Systems Interconnection
OSI/ISO — Open Systems Interconnection by International Organization for
Standardization
PACS — Picture Archiving and Communication System
PAN — Personal Area Network
PC — Personal Computer
PCS — Patient Classification Systems
PDA — Personal Digital Assistant
PHI — Protected Health Information
PKI — Public Key Infrastructure
POC — Point-of-Care
POCCIC — Point-of-Care Connectivity Industry Consortium
POCIS — Point-of-Care Information System
POTS — Plain Old Telephone Service
PSTN — Public Switched Telephone Network
PubMed — National Library of Medicine's search service
QoS — Quality of Service
R&D — Research and Development
RAD — Resource Access Decision
RADIUS — Remote Access Dial-In User Service
RBAC — Role-Based Access Control
RC4 — Rivest Cipher 4
Read Code — Clinical Terms Version 3
REM — Rapid Eye Movement
RIM — HL7 Reference Information Model
RIS — Radiological Information System
RMI — Remote Method Invocation
RMIM — HL7 Restricted Message Information Model
RSA — Rivest, Shamir, Adleman
RTCP — Real Time Control Protocol
RTP — Real Time Protocol
RTSP — Real Time Streaming Protocol
SAML — Security Assertion Markup Language
SCORM — Sharable Content Object Reference Model
SCP — Service Class Provider
SCU — Service Class User
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SDO — Standards Development Organisation
SDT — Speech Detection Threshold
SME — Subject Matter Expert
SMIL — Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMS — Short Message Service
SNOMED — Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine
SOA — Service-Oriented Architecture
SOAP — Simple Object Access Protocol
SOSA — Service-Oriented Security Architecture
SPL — Sound Pressure Level
SRT — Speech Reception Threshold
SSID — Service Set Identifier
SSL — Secure Socket Layer
SSO — Single Sign-On
SVT — Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia
TC/251 — Technical Committee 251
TCP — Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP — Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol
TCSEC — Trusted Computer System Security Evaluation Criteria
TDM — Time Division Multiplexing
TTP — Trusted Third Party
UBAC — User-Based Access Control
UDDI — Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration
UDP — User Datagram Protocol
UML — Unified Modeling Language
UMLS — Unified Medical Language System
UMTS — Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UNII — Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure
US — Ultrasound Tissue Images
USA — Ultrasound Angiography Images
VHS — Video Home System
VoIP — Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN — Virtual Private Network
VR — Volume Rendered Images
VVFS — Virtual Video File System
WAN — Wide Area Network
WAP — Wireless Application Protocol
WCDMA — Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WEP — Wired Equivalent Privacy
WHO — World Health Organization
WHOART — WHO Adverse Reaction Terminology
WLAN — Wireless Local Area Network
WSDL — Web Services Description Language
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WWAN — Wireless Wide Area Network
WWW — World Wide Web
XDS — Cross-Document Sharing
xDSL — a family of Digital Subscriber Line techniques
XML — Extensible Markup Language
XrML — Extensible Rights Markup Language
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