Appendix B: Glossary of Terms
Academy
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
World's largest association of food and nutrition professionals headquartered in Chicago, Illinois
BMI
Body Mass Index
Weight in kg/height in meters squared - typically used as measure of weight status
CDA
Clinical Documentation Architecture
HL7 markup standard which specifies structure and semantics of electronic clinical documents
C-CDA
Consolidated Clinical Documentation Architecture
An HL7 library of CDA formatted documents
CDS
Clinical Decision Support
Electronic health information to help inform decisions about a patient's care
CMS
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
An organizational unit of the US federal government's Department of Health and Human Services which assures healthcare to elderly and underserved populations
CRG
Clinical Reference Group
Clinical engagement structure in SNOMED CT, Introduction - Clinical Reference Groups
EHR
Electronic Health Record
The electronic, digitized version of a patients paper medical record
ENCPRS
Electronic Nutrition Care Process Record System
EU
European Union
Supranational economic and political union of twenty-seven European countries and their territories
FHIR
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
HL7 standard for exchanging health information electronically link
HIE
Health Information Exchange
Allows health care professionals and patients to appropriately access and securely share medical information electronically
HL7
Health Level Seven International
"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." https://www.hl7.org/
HbA1C
Hemoglobin A1C, glycosylated hemoglobin
Blood test used to assess blood glucose control over preceding 2-3 months
IBD
Irritable Bowel Disease
Lifelong disease that affects the intestines
IPS
International Patient Summary
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. https://international-patient-summary.net/
K-CDA IG
Korean Clinical Documentation Architecture Implementation Guide
An example of adaptation of HL7 CDA to meet social and cultural HIE needs of a country
NCP
Nutrition Care Process
Systematic method that dietetics and nutrition professionals use to provide nutrition care. Fully described in Section 2.
NCPM
Nutrition Care Process Model
Illustrated in Chapter 2
NCPT
Nutrition Care Process Terminology
Terms which support the NCP as described in Chapter 2
PS-CA
Pan-Canadian Patient Summary
Canadian adaptation of the IPS concept
SDO
Standards Development Organization
ISO (International Organization for Standardization, https://www.iso.org/home.html ) and ANSI (American National Standards Institute, https://www.ansi.org/) are examples of SDOs. HL7 is ANSI accredited.
SIG
Special Interest Group
A former name for SNOMED CT's current Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs)
USCDI
United States Core Data for Interoperability
A standardized set of health data classes and constituent data elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange, https://www.healthit.gov/isp/united-states-core-data-interoperability-uscdi
VSAC
Value Set Authority Center
A repository and authoring tool for public value sets created by external programs. Value sets are lists of codes and corresponding terms, from NLM-hosted standard clinical vocabularies (such as SNOMED CT®, RxNorm, LOINC® and others), that define clinical concepts to support effective and interoperable health information exchange. https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/
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