HITSP+Acronyms+List

TOC Acronyms List
flat || //** Description **// ||
 * //** Acronym **//
 * =A= ||
 * AAFP || American Academy of Family Physicians ||
 * AANP || American Academy of Nurse Practitioners ||
 * AAP || American Academy of Pediatrics ||
 * ABC Codes || Alternative Medicine, Nursing and Other Integrative Healthcare Service Codes ||
 * ACC || American College of Cardiology ||
 * ACEP || American College of Emergency Physicians ||
 * ACK || HL7 General Acknowledgement Message ||
 * ACP || American College of Physicians ||
 * ACR || American College of Radiology ||
 * ACS || Auxiliary Care Sites ||
 * ADA || American Dental Association ||
 * ADL || Activities of Daily Living ||
 * ADT || Admission Discharge Transfer ||
 * AHIC || American Health Information Community ||
 * AHIMA || American Health Information Management Association ||
 * AHRQ || Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ||
 * AL1 || Allergy Information Segment ||
 * AMA || American Medical Association ||
 * AMR || Ambulatory Medical Record ||
 * ANSI || American National Standards Institute ||
 * AORN || Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses ||
 * APA || American Psychological Association ||
 * APCO || Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials ||
 * APHL || Association of Public Health Laboratories ||
 * //AQA// || Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance ||
 * ARI || Access to Radiology Information ||
 * ASC || Accredited Standards Committee X12 ||
 * ASN.1 || Abstract Syntax Notation One ||
 * ASTM || American Society for Testing Materials Standards ||
 * ASTM E1762 || Standard Guide for Electronic Authentication of Healthcare Information ||
 * ASTM E1985 || Standard Guide for User Authentication and Authorization ||
 * ASTM E2084 || Standard Specification for Authentication of Healthcare Information Using Digital Signatures ||
 * ASTM E2147 || Standard Specification for Audit and Disclosure Logs for Use in Health Information Systems ||
 * ASTM E2212 || Standard Practice for Healthcare Certificate Policy ||
 * ASTM E2369 || Standard Specification for Continuity of Care Record ||
 * ASTM E31 || Standards Guide on Healthcare Informatics ||
 * ATNA || Audit Trail and Node Authentication ||
 * =B= ||
 * BAR || Budget Activity Report ||
 * BAS || Battalion Aid Stations ||
 * BDSG || Biosurveillance Data Steering Group ||
 * BIIP || Borders, Information, and Infrastructure Protection ||
 * BIS || Biosurveillance Information System ||
 * BPEL || Business Process Execution Language ||
 * BPPC || Basic Patient Privacy Consents ||
 * =C= ||
 * CAD || Computer Aided Design ||
 * CAP || College of American Pathologists ||
 * CAQH || Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare ||
 * CCC || Clinical Care Classification formerly HHCC ||
 * CCD || Continuity of Care Document ||
 * CCHIT || Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology ||
 * CCoM || Clinical Context Management ||
 * CCOW || Clinical Context Object Working Group ||
 * CCR || Continuity of Care Record ||
 * CDA || Clinical Data Architecture ||
 * CDA R2 || Clinical Data Architecture Release 2 ||
 * CDC || Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ||
 * CDER || Center for Drug Evaluation and Research ||
 * CDISC || Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium ||
 * CD-R || Compact Disk-Recordable ||
 * CDT || Code of Dental Procedures and Nomenclature ||
 * CEN 251 || European Standardization Committee (CEN) Technical Committee for Medical Informatics (251) ||
 * CFR || Code of Federal Regulations ||
 * CHI || Consolidated Healthcare Informatics ||
 * CIMS || Consequence Incident Management System ||
 * CLIA || Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments ||
 * CLSI || Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute ||
 * CMM || Medicare/Medicaid Facility Identifiers ||
 * CMS || Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ||
 * CMS ID || Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Identification Number ||
 * COAS || Clinical Observations Access Service ||
 * CORBA || Common Object Request Broker Architecture ||
 * CORBAMed || Healthcare Division of Object Management Group ||
 * CORE || Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange ||
 * CP || Consulting Provider=HL7 ||
 * CPA || Collaboration-Protocol Agreement ||
 * CPOE || Computerized Practitioner Order Entry ||
 * CPP || Collaboration-Protocol Profile ||
 * CPT || Current Procedural Terminology ||
 * CPT – 4 || Current Procedural Terminology – Fourth edition ||
 * CPT- E& M || Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Evaluation and Management documentation ||
 * CSTE || Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists ||
 * CT || Consistent Time ||
 * CTS I || Common Terminology Service V1 ||
 * CTS II || Common Terminology Service V2 ||
 * CWE || Common Weakness Enumeration ||
 * CX || Cross Link ||
 * =D= ||
 * DCE || Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment ||
 * DE || Distribution Element ||
 * DEA || Data Encryption Algorithm ||
 * DEA || Drug Enforcement Agency ||
 * DEEDS || Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems ||
 * DES || Data Encryption Standard ||
 * DFR || Document Filing and Retrieval ||
 * DG1 || Diagnosis Message ||
 * DHS || Department of Homeland Security ||
 * DHS-DM || Department of Homeland Security – Disaster Management ||
 * DICOM || Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine ||
 * DICOM SOP || Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine Service Object Pair ||
 * DISA || Data Interchange Standards Association ||
 * DMAT || Disaster Medical Assistance Team ||
 * DMORT || Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team ||
 * DOCID || Interoperability Specification Document Identification ||
 * DoD || Department of Defense ||
 * DRG || Diagnostic Related Groups ||
 * DRU || Drug=NCPDP ||
 * DSA || Digital Signature Algorithm ||
 * DSG || Document Digital Signature ||
 * DSIG || Digital Signature Initiative ||
 * DSM || Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ||
 * DSML || Directory Services Markup Language ||
 * DSTU || Draft Standard for Trial Use ||
 * DTE || Data Terminal Equipment ||
 * DTS || Data Transformation Services ||
 * =E= ||
 * EB || Eligibility Segment ||
 * ebXML || Electronic Business Extensible Markup Language ||
 * ECC || Emergency Communications Center ||
 * ECG || Electrocardiograms ||
 * ECHO || Echocardiography Workflow ||
 * ECMA1-219 || Standard Guide for User Authentication and Authorization ||
 * ECN || Explicit Congestion Notification ||
 * ECON || Emergency Contact Registry ||
 * ECR || Episode-of-Care Record ||
 * ECS || Emergency Communications System ||
 * ED || Evidence Document ||
 * EDC || Electronic Data Capture ||
 * EDI || Electronic Data Interchange ||
 * EDIFACT || Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport ||
 * EDR || Emergency Department Referral ||
 * EDXL || Emergency Data Exchange Language ||
 * EHR || Electronic Health Record ||
 * EHR-S || Electronic Health Record System ||
 * EHRS || Environmental Health and Radiation Safety ||
 * EHRVA || Electronic Health Record Vendors' Association ||
 * EIC || Emergency Interoperability Consortium ||
 * EIN || Employer Identification Number ||
 * ELINCS || EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standard ||
 * ELR || Electronic Laboratory Reporting ||
 * EMD || Emergency Medical Dispatch ||
 * EMR || Electronic Medical Record ||
 * EMS || Emergency Medical Services ||
 * EMT || Emergency Medical Technician ||
 * EOC || Emergency Operations Centers ||
 * EPA || Environmental Protection Agency ||
 * EPA SRS || Environmental Protection Agency Substance Registry System ||
 * ER-EHR || Emergency Responder-Electronic Health Record ||
 * ETSI || European Telecommunications Standards Institute ||
 * ETSI TS 101 903 || XML Advanced Electronic Signatures ||
 * ETSI TS 201 733 || Electronic Signature Formats ||
 * EUA || Enterprise User Authentication ||
 * EVN || Event Segment ||
 * =F= ||
 * FACA || Federal Advisory Committee Act ||
 * FDA || Food and Drug Administration ||
 * FDA SRS || Food and Drug Administration Substance Registry System ||
 * FEIN || Federal Employer Identification Number ||
 * FEMA || Federal Emergency Management Agency ||
 * FHIR || Fast Health Interoperable Resources ||
 * FIPS || Federal Information Processing System ||
 * FMS || Federal Medical Stations ||
 * FMT || Federal Medication Terminologies ||
 * =G= ||
 * GELLO || An Object-Oriented Query and Expression Language for Clinical Decision Support ||
 * GIS || Geographic Information Systems ||
 * GJXDM || Global Justice XML Data Model ||
 * GLIF || Guide Line Interchange Format, ||
 * GM HIN || Greater Metropolitan Health Information Network ||
 * GPS || Global Positioning System ||
 * GUI || Graphical User Interface ||
 * =H= ||
 * HAN || Health Alert Network ||
 * HAVE || Hospital Availability Exchange ||
 * HAVBed || Hospital Bed Availability (HAVBed) Project ||
 * HCPCS || Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System ||
 * HHS || U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ||
 * HIE || Health Information Exchange ||
 * HIMSS || Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ||
 * HIPAA || Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ||
 * HIS || Healthcare Information System ||
 * HITEP || Health Information Technology Expert Panel ||
 * HITSP || Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel ||
 * HL7 || Health Level Seven ||
 * HL7 AGNT || Health Level Seven Assigned Entity Authorized Agent ||
 * HL7 ECON || Health Level Seven Assigned Entity Contacted in an Emergency ||
 * HL7 NOK || Health Level Seven Assigned Entity Next of Kin ||
 * HL7 ORU || Health Level Seven Observation Result Unsolicited ||
 * HL7 PRS || Health Level Seven Assigned Entity Personal Relationship ||
 * HL7 QI || Health Level Seven Query Infrastructure ||
 * HL7 v2.x || Health Level Seven – Messaging Standards Model version 2 ||
 * HL7 v3.x || Health Level Seven – Reference Information Model version 3 ||
 * HL7 WS || Health Level Seven – Web Services ||
 * HPIA || Highly Pathogenic form of Avian ||
 * //HQA// || Hospital Quality Association ||
 * HRSA || Health Resources and Services Administration ||
 * HTML || Hypertext Markup Language ||
 * HTTP || Hypertext Transfer Protocol ||
 * HTTPS || Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure ||
 * HUGN || Human Usable Graphical Notation ||
 * =I= ||
 * IAM || Adverse Reaction Segment ||
 * ICD || International Classification of Diseases ||
 * ICD-9-CM || International Classification of Diseases – Clinical Modification 9th edition ||
 * ICD-10-CM || International Classification of Diseases – Clinical Modification 10th edition ||
 * ICD-10-PCS || International Classification of Diseases - Procedure Classification System 10th edition ||
 * ICNP || International Classification of Nursing Practice ||
 * ICS || Incident Command System ||
 * ICU || Intensive Care Unit ||
 * IEC || International Electrotechnical Commission ||
 * IEEE || Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ||
 * IETF || Internet Engineering Task Force ||
 * IETF RFC 958 || Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comment on a Network Time Protocol (NTP) ||
 * IETF/RFC 2368 || Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comment Mailto: URL scheme ||
 * IETF/RFC 2633 || Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comment on S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification ||
 * IETF/RFC 3280 || Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comment on Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List ||
 * IETF/RFC 3966 || Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comment URL telephone scheme ||
 * IHE || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise ||
 * IHE ATNA || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Audit Trail and Node Authentication ||
 * IHE BPPC || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Basic Patient Privacy Consents ||
 * IHE CT || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Consistent Time ||
 * IHE DSG || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Document Digital Signature ||
 * IHE EUA || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise User Authentication ||
 * IHE PCC || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Patient Care Coordination ||
 * IHE PDQ || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Patient Demographics Query ||
 * IHE PIX || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Patient Identifier Cross-referencing ||
 * IHE PWP || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Personnel White Pages ||
 * IHE QED || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Query for Existing Data Profile ||
 * IHE RFD || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Resource Description Framework ||
 * IHE XCA || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Cross Community Access ||
 * IHE XDM || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Cross-Enterprise Document Media Exchange ||
 * IHE XDS || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing ||
 * IHE XDS-MS || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing –Medical Summary ||
 * IHE XUA || Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Cross-Enterprise User Authentication ||
 * IHTSDO || International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation ||
 * IIHI || Individually Identifiable Health Information ||
 * IKE || Internet Key Exchange ||
 * IOM || Institute of Medicine ||
 * IP || Internet Protocol ||
 * IPSEC || Internet Protocol Security ||
 * ISAKMP || Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol ||
 * ISO || International Organization for Standardization ||
 * ISO 9660 Level 1 || International Organization for Standardization Health Informatics -Common logical format for files and directories ||
 * ISO 22600-1 || International Organization for Standardization Health Informatics - Privilege Management and Access Control ||
 * ISO 22600-2 || International Organization for Standardization Health Informatics - Privilege Management and Access Control -- Part 2: Formal models ||
 * ISO 22857 || International Organization for Standardization Health Informatics - Guidelines on data protection to facilitate trans-border flows of personal health information ||
 * ISO/DTS22600-3 || International Organization for Standardization Health Informatics - Privilege Management and Access Control ||
 * ISO/TC 215 || International Organization for Standardization Health Informatics- Technical Committee (TC) ||
 * ISO/TS 21091 || International Organization for Standardization Health Informatics - Directory services for security, communications and identification of professionals and patients ||
 * ISP || Internet Service Provider ||
 * ITI || Information Technology Infrastructure ||
 * ITI-TF-2 || Information Technology Infrastructure Technical Framework, volume 2 ||
 * ITU || International Telecommunication Union ||
 * =J= ||
 * J2EE || Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition ||
 * JMS || Java Messaging Specification ||
 * JSR || Java Specification Request ||
 * JTS || Java Transaction Specification ||
 * =K= ||
 * =L= ||
 * LAN || Local Area Network ||
 * LCSD || Laboratory Code Set Distribution ||
 * LDA || Laboratory Device Automation ||
 * LDAP || Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ||
 * LIMS || Laboratory Information Management System ||
 * LIR || Laboratory Information Reconciliation ||
 * LLP || Lower Level Protocol ||
 * LOI || Laboratory Orders Interface ||
 * LOINC || Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes ||
 * LPOCT || Laboratory Point of Care Testing ||
 * LSWF || Laboratory Scheduled Workflow ||
 * =M= ||
 * MAC || Media Access Control ||
 * MD5 || Message Digest Algorithm 5 ||
 * MDO || Measure Development Organizations ||
 * MDR || Metadata Registries ||
 * ME || Medical Examiner ||
 * MEDCIN || Clinical Database Engine, named MEDCIN® ||
 * MedDRA || Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ||
 * MIME || Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ||
 * MLLP || Minimal Lower Layer Protocol ||
 * MLM || Medical Logic Model ||
 * MMWR || Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ||
 * MSH || Message Segment Header ||
 * MSSO || Maintenance and Support Services Organization ||
 * MTF || Medical Treatment Facility ||
 * =N= ||
 * NAAC || National Assessment and Accreditation Council ||
 * NAACCR || North American Association of Central Cancer Registries ||
 * NAHIT || National Alliance for Health Information Technology ||
 * NANDA || North American Nursing Diagnosis Association ||
 * NASEMSO || National Association of State Emergency Medical Service Officials ||
 * NASFM || National Association of State Fire Marshals ||
 * NAV || Notification of Document Availability ||
 * NCHS || National Center for Health Statistics ||
 * NCPDP || National Council for Prescription Drug Programs ||
 * NCQA || National Committee on Quality Assurance ||
 * NCVHS || National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics ||
 * NDC || National Drug Codes ||
 * NDF-RT || National Drug File Reference Terminology ||
 * NEDSS || National Electronic Disease Surveillance System ||
 * NEMSIS || National Emergency Medical Services Information Systems ||
 * NENA || National Emergency Number Association ||
 * NHII || National Health Information Infrastructure ||
 * NHIN || Nationwide Health Information Network ||
 * NHTSA || National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ||
 * NIC || Nursing Interventions Classification ||
 * NIEM || National Information Exchange Model ||
 * NIH || National Institutes of Health ||
 * NIMS || National Incident Management System ||
 * NIST || National Institute of Standards and Technology ||
 * NLM || National Library of Medicine ||
 * NLP || Natural Language Processing ||
 * NM || Numeric Messaging ||
 * NMMDS || Nursing Management Minimum Data Set ||
 * NNDSS || National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System ||
 * NOC || Nursing Outcomes Classification ||
 * NPI || National Provider Identifier ||
 * NPRM || Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Order ||
 * NPS || National Park Service ||
 * NQF || National Quality Forum ||
 * NTDB || National Trauma Data Bank ||
 * NTE || Notes and Comments HL7 ||
 * NTP || Network Time Protocol ||
 * NUBC || National Uniform Billing Committee ||
 * =O= ||
 * OASIS || Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ||
 * OASIS CAP || OASIS Common Alerting Protocol ||
 * OASIS CIQ || OASIS Customer Information Quality (non-normative) ||
 * OASIS DE || OASIS Distribution Element ||
 * OASIS ebRS || Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Electronic Business Standards Registry Services and Protocols ||
 * OASIS EDXL || OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language ||
 * OASIS HAVE || OASIS Hospital Availability Exchange ||
 * OBR || Observation Request Segment ||
 * OBX || Observation Result Messages ||
 * OCSP || Online Certificate Status Protocol ||
 * OER || Office of Emergency Response ||
 * OGC || Open Geospatial Consortium ||
 * OHCA || Organized Healthcare Arrangement ||
 * OID || Object Identifies ||
 * OMG || Object Management Group ||
 * OMP || Pharmacy Order Message ||
 * OMSP || Occupational Medical Surveillance Program ||
 * ONC || Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology ||
 * OPHP || Office of Public Health Preparedness ||
 * ORC || Common Order Segment ||
 * ORM || Order Messaging ||
 * ORU || Observation Result/Unsolicited ||
 * OSHA || Occupational Safety and Health Administration ||
 * OUL || Unsolicited Laboratory Observation Message - HL7 ||
 * OWL || Web Ontology Language ||
 * =P= ||
 * PAM || Patient Administration Management ||
 * PBM || Pharmacy Benefit Manager ||
 * PCC || Patient Care Coordination ||
 * PCP || Primary Care Physician ||
 * PCR || Patient Care Report ||
 * PDI || Portable Data for Imaging ||
 * PDQ || Patient Demographics Query ||
 * PGP || Presentation of Grouped Procedures ||
 * PHCDM || Public Health Conceptual Data Model ||
 * PHDSC || Public Health Data Standards Consortium ||
 * PHI || Protected Health Information ||
 * PHIMS || Public Health Issues Management System ||
 * PHIN || Public Health Information Network ||
 * PHIN MS || Public Health Information Network Messaging System ||
 * PHR || Personal Health Record ||
 * PHS || Public Health Service ||
 * PID || Patient Identification Segment ||
 * PIR || Patient Information Reconciliation ||
 * PIVL || Periodic Interval of Time ||
 * PIX || Patient Identifier Cross-referencing ||
 * PKI || Public Key Infrastructure ||
 * PMR || Personal Medical Record ||
 * PNDS || Perioperative Nursing Data Set ||
 * PPR || Patient Problem Message ||
 * PPW || Post-Processing Workflow ||
 * PR1 || Procedure Messages ||
 * PRB || Problem Detail Segment ||
 * PSA || Patient Synchronized Applications ||
 * PSAP || Public Safety Answering Point ||
 * PV1 || Patient Visit 1 Segment ||
 * PVD || PVD Segment as the Pharmacy or Prescriber Supervisor (NCPDP) ||
 * PWP || Personnel White Pages ||
 * =Q= ||
 * QBP || Query by Parameter ||
 * QED || Query for Existing Data ||
 * QRY/ADR^A19 || Patient Query/Patient Query Response HL7 ||
 * =R= ||
 * R-ADT || Reservation/Registration-Admission, Discharge, Transfer ||
 * RBAC TF || Role Based Access Control Task Force ||
 * RDF || Resource Description Framework ||
 * RDMS || Report Distribution Management System ||
 * RDSS || Requirements Design and Selection Standards ||
 * REG/MED || Registration and Medication ||
 * RFC || Request for Comment ||
 * RFD || Retrieve Form for Data-Capture ||
 * RFID || Radio Frequency IDentification ||
 * RHIO || Regional Health Information Organization ||
 * RID || Retrieve Information for Display ||
 * RIM || Reference Information Model ||
 * RLUS || Resource Location and Updating Service ||
 * RMIM || Refined Message Information Model ||
 * RP || Referring Provider=HL7 ||
 * RSP || Response Segment Pattern ||
 * RWF || Reporting Workflow ||
 * Rx Bin || Standard Pharmacy routing number ||
 * RxNORM || A standardized nomenclature for clinical drugs produced by the National Library of Medicine ||
 * RXO || Pharmacy/Treatment Order Segment ||
 * RXR || Pharmacy/Treatment Route Segment ||
 * =S= ||
 * S/MIME || Secure/Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions ||
 * S&I || Standards and Interoperability ||
 * S&P || Security and Privacy ||
 * SAML || Security Assertion Markup Language ||
 * SAR || Situational Awareness Report ||
 * SCDI || Standards Committee for Dental Informatics ||
 * SDN || Secure Data Network Standards and Procedures ||
 * SDO || Standards Development Organization ||
 * SDTC || Standards Document Technical Committee=HL7 ||
 * SGML || Standard Generalized Markup Language ||
 * SHA || Secure Hash Algorithm ||
 * SHS || Secure Hash Standard ||
 * SIG || Standard email Signature ||
 * SILS || Interoperable LAN/MAN Security ||
 * SINR || Simple Imaging and Numeric Report ||
 * SN || Structured Numeric ||
 * SNODENT || Systematized Nomenclature of Dentistry ||
 * SNOMED || Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine ||
 * SNOMED CT || Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine- Clinical Terms ||
 * SNOMED RT || Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine- Reference Terminology ||
 * SNTP || Simple Network Time Protocol ||
 * SOA || Service-Oriented Architecture ||
 * SOAP || Simple Object Access Protocol ||
 * SOP || Standard Operational Procedures ||
 * SPKM || Simple Public Key Mechanism ||
 * SPL || Structured Product Label ||
 * SQL || Structured Query Language ||
 * SQL/JRT || Structured Query Language, Java Programming Language ||
 * SSL || Secure Sockets Layer ||
 * SWF || Scheduled Workflow ||
 * =T= ||
 * TCP || Transmission Control Protocol ||
 * TCP/IP || Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ||
 * TID || Diagnostic Imaging Report ||
 * TLS || Transport Layer Security ||
 * TS || Timestamp ||
 * TSP || Telematics Service Provider ||
 * =U= ||
 * UB-92 || Uniform Bill Version 1992/Current UB Date Specifications Manual ||
 * UCUM || Unified Code for Units of Measure ||
 * UDP || User Datagram Protocol ||
 * UHDDS || Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set ||
 * UHID || Universal Healthcare Identifier ||
 * UML || Unified Modeling Language ||
 * UMLS || Unified Medical Language System ||
 * UNII || Unique Ingredient Identifier ||
 * URAC || American Accreditation HealthCare Commission ||
 * URI || Uniform Resource Identifier ||
 * URL || Uniform Resource Locator ||
 * URN || Uniform Resource Names ||
 * USB-IF || Universal Serial Bus-Implementers Forum ||
 * USHIK || United States Health Information Knowledgebase ||
 * UTC || Coordinated Universal Time ||
 * =V= ||
 * VEDS || Vehicular Emergency Data Set ||
 * VIN || Vehicle Identification Number ||
 * VPN || Virtual Private Network ||
 * =W= ||
 * W3C || World Wide Web Consortium ||
 * WAN || Wide Area Network ||
 * WAP || Wireless Application Protocol ||
 * WEP || Wired Equivalent Privacy ||
 * WfMC || Workflow Management Coalition ||
 * WG || Working Group ||
 * WHO || World Health Organization ||
 * wLAN || Wireless Local Area Network ||
 * WML || Wireless Markup Language ||
 * WPC || Washington Publishing Company ||
 * WSDL || Web Services Description Language ||
 * WSRM || Web Services Reliable Messaging ||
 * WSS || Web Services Security ||
 * =X= ||
 * X12.5 || Accredited Standards Committee X12.5– Interchange Control ||
 * X12.6 || Accredited Standards Committee X12.6 – Application Control Structure ||
 * X12 270/271 || Accredited Standards Committee X12 270/271 - Health Care Eligibility Benefit Inquiry and Response transactions ||
 * X12N || Accredited Standards Committee X12N – Insurance ||
 * XAD || Patient Identification Domain ||
 * XCA || Cross-Community Access ||
 * XCN || Extended Coded Name ||
 * XDM || Cross Enterprise Document Media Interchange ||
 * XDS || Cross Enterprise Document Sharing ||
 * XDS-I || Cross Enterprise Document Sharing -Imaging Integration Profile ||
 * XDS-ITI || Cross Enterprise Document Sharing –Patient Demographics Query ||
 * XDS-LAB || Cross Enterprise Document Sharing -Laboratory Technical Framework ||
 * XDS-MS || Cross Enterprise Document Sharing -Medical Summaries Integration Profile ||
 * XML || Extensible Markup Language ||
 * XPATH || XML Path Language ||
 * XPHR || Exchange of Personal Health Record Content ||
 * XQUERY || XML Query Language ||
 * XUA || Cross-Enterprise User Authentication ||
 * =Y= ||
 * =Z= ||