CCHIT - Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
EHR - Electronic Health Record
EMR - Electronic Medical Record
HIE - Health Information Exchange
HIO - Health Information Organization
HIT - Health Information Technology
LTC - Long-Term Care
LTPAC - Long-Term Post-Acute Care
mHealth - Mobile Health
PERS - Personal Emergency Response System
PHR - Personal Health Record
RHIO - Regional Health Information Organization
1 CCHIT - Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
In addition to developing minimum criteria for functionality, security and privacy features of EHRs [electronic health records], the CCHIT certification process requires health IT products to demonstrate they have incorporated the nationally recognized interoperability standards.
CCHIT is only one of several ONC Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ATCB). (Source: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, released on April 28, 2008)
2 EHR - Electronic Health Record
An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff across more than one health care organization. (Source: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, released on April 28, 2008)
3 EMR - Electronic Medical Record
An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that can be created, gathered, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one health care organization. (Source: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, released on April 28, 2008)
4 HIE - Health Information Exchange
The electronic movement of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards. (Source: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, released on April 28, 2008)
5 HIO - Health Information Organization
An organization that oversees and governs the exchange of health-related information among organizations according to nationally recognized standards. (Source: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, released on April 28, 2008)
6 HIT - Health Information Technology
HIT encompasses a broad array of technologies involved in managing and sharing patient information electronically, rather than through paper records. HIT performs information processing using both computer hardware and software for the entry, storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information.(Source: Alliance for Health Reform). EHR, EMR and PHR are examples of HIT.
7 LTC - Long-Term Care
Long-term care is a variety of services that includes medical and non-medical care to people who have a chronic illness or disability. Long-term care helps meet health or personal needs. Most long-term care is to assist people with support services such as activities of daily living like dressing, bathing, and using the bathroom. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living or in nursing homes. (Source: Medicare)
8 LTPAC - Long-Term Post-Acute Care
The expanded definition of LTPAC encompasses a broad range of providers that include: home and community-based services; nursing homes; assisted living; long-term acute care hospitals; rehabilitation and post-acute care facilities; PACE programs; hospice; chronic disease and co-morbidity management; medication therapy management and senior pharmacists; wellness providers; and others. What distinguishes this sector is its focus on coordination of supportive services and care, restoring and maintaining health, wellness and functional abilities, and a particular, almost programmatic, focus on the particular needs and goals of each of its consumers and their families. (Source: LTPAC HIT Roadmap)
9 mHealth - Mobile Health
Mobile health typically refers to portable devices with the capability to create, store, retrieve, and transmit data in real time between end users for the purpose of improving patient safety and quality of care. (Source: eHealth-Connection)
10 PERS - Personal Emergency Response System
Equipment that monitors the safety of older people in their homes through signals electronically transmitted over the telephone and received at an emergency-monitoring center. (State of New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services)
11 PHR - Personal Health Record
An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be drawn from multiple sources while being managed, shared, and controlled by the individual. (Source: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, released on April 28, 2008)
12 RHIO - Regional Health Information Organization
A health information organization that brings together health care stakeholders within a defined geographic area and governs health information exchange among them for the purpose of improving health and care in that community. (Source: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, released on April 28, 2008)