Appendix B: Glossary of Terms

SNOMED CT Glossary

Term
Explanation
Description

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

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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