# Appendix B: Glossary of Terms

General [**SNOMED CT Glossary**](https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/DOCGLOSS/SNOMED+Glossary)

<table><thead><tr><th width="126.6875">Term</th><th width="211.0625">Explanation</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Academy</td><td>Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics</td><td>World's largest association of food and nutrition professionals headquartered in Chicago, Illinois</td></tr><tr><td>BMI</td><td>Body Mass Index</td><td>Weight in kg/height in meters squared - typically used as measure of weight status</td></tr><tr><td>CDA</td><td>Clinical Documentation Architecture</td><td>HL7 markup standard which specifies structure and semantics of electronic clinical documents</td></tr><tr><td>C-CDA</td><td>Consolidated Clinical Documentation Architecture</td><td>An HL7 library of CDA formatted documents</td></tr><tr><td>CDS</td><td>Clinical Decision Support</td><td>Electronic health information to help inform decisions about a patient's care</td></tr><tr><td>CMS</td><td>Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services</td><td>An organizational unit of the US federal government's Department of Health and Human Services which assures healthcare to elderly and underserved populations</td></tr><tr><td>CRG</td><td>Clinical Reference Group</td><td>Clinical engagement structure in SNOMED CT, <a href="https://conf.spaces.snomed.org/wiki/spaces/NDCRG/overview">Introduction - Clinical Reference Groups</a></td></tr><tr><td>EHR</td><td>Electronic Health Record</td><td>The electronic, digitized version of a patients paper medical record</td></tr><tr><td>ENCPRS</td><td>Electronic Nutrition Care Process Record System</td><td><a href="https://www.standict.eu/standards-repository/hl7-ehr-system-electronic-nutrition-care-process-record-system-encprs">https://www.standict.eu/standards-repository/hl7-ehr-system-electronic-nutrition-care-process-record-system-encprs</a></td></tr><tr><td>EU</td><td>European Union</td><td>Supranational economic and political union of twenty-seven European countries and their territories</td></tr><tr><td>FHIR</td><td>Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources</td><td>HL7 standard for exchanging health information electronically <a href="https://hl7.org/fhir/">link</a></td></tr><tr><td>HIE</td><td>Health Information Exchange</td><td>Allows health care professionals and patients to appropriately access and securely share medical information electronically</td></tr><tr><td>HL7</td><td>Health Level Seven International</td><td>"a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services." <a href="https://www.hl7.org/">https://www.hl7.org/</a></td></tr><tr><td>HbA1C</td><td>Hemoglobin A1C, glycosylated hemoglobin</td><td>Blood test used to assess blood glucose control over preceding 2-3 months</td></tr><tr><td>IBD</td><td>Irritable Bowel Disease</td><td>Lifelong disease that affects the intestines</td></tr><tr><td>IPS</td><td>International Patient Summary</td><td>The International Patient Summary is a minimal and non-exhaustive set of basic clinical data of a patient, specialty-agnostic, condition-independent, but readily usable by all clinicians for the unscheduled (cross-border) patient care. <a href="https://international-patient-summary.net/">https://international-patient-summary.net/</a></td></tr><tr><td>K-CDA IG</td><td>Korean Clinical Documentation Architecture Implementation Guide</td><td>An example of adaptation of HL7 CDA to meet social and cultural HIE needs of a country</td></tr><tr><td>NCP</td><td>Nutrition Care Process</td><td>Systematic method that dietetics and nutrition professionals use to provide nutrition care. Fully described in <a data-mention href="/pages/Ym9IdzCUd4Hw8VP079se">/pages/Ym9IdzCUd4Hw8VP079se</a>.</td></tr><tr><td>NCPM</td><td>Nutrition Care Process Model</td><td>Illustrated in <a data-mention href="/pages/Ym9IdzCUd4Hw8VP079se">/pages/Ym9IdzCUd4Hw8VP079se</a></td></tr><tr><td>NCPT</td><td>Nutrition Care Process Terminology</td><td>Terms which support the NCP as described in <a data-mention href="/pages/Ym9IdzCUd4Hw8VP079se">/pages/Ym9IdzCUd4Hw8VP079se</a></td></tr><tr><td>PS-CA</td><td>Pan-Canadian Patient Summary</td><td>Canadian adaptation of the IPS concept</td></tr><tr><td>SDO</td><td>Standards Development Organization</td><td>ISO (International Organization for Standardization, <a href="https://www.iso.org/home.html">https://www.iso.org/home.html</a> ) and ANSI (American National Standards Institute, <a href="https://www.ansi.org/">https://www.ansi.org/</a>) are examples of SDOs. HL7 is ANSI accredited.</td></tr><tr><td>SIG</td><td>Special Interest Group</td><td>A former name for SNOMED CT's current Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs)</td></tr><tr><td>USCDI</td><td>United States Core Data for Interoperability</td><td>A standardized set of health data classes and constituent data elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange, <a href="https://www.healthit.gov/isp/united-states-core-data-interoperability-uscdi">https://www.healthit.gov/isp/united-states-core-data-interoperability-uscdi</a></td></tr><tr><td>VSAC</td><td>Value Set Authority Center</td><td>A repository and authoring tool for public value sets created by external programs. Value sets are lists of codes and corresponding terms, from <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/vsac/support/authorguidelines/code-systems.html">NLM-hosted standard clinical vocabularies</a> (such as SNOMED CT®, RxNorm, LOINC® and others), that define clinical concepts to support effective and interoperable health information exchange. <a href="https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/">https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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