| ACCC |
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission |
| ACMA |
Australian Communication and Media Authority |
| ACSQHC |
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
| ACT |
Action |
| ACTUG |
Australian Clinical Terminology Users Group |
| ADA-JDA |
Australian Design Award James Dyson Award |
| ADL |
Archetype Definition Language |
| AG |
Advisory Group |
| AGDA |
Australian Graphic Design Association |
| AHIMA |
American Health Information Management Association |
| AHMAC |
Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council |
| AHML |
Australian Healthcare Messaging Laboratory |
| AIDA |
Australian International Design Awards |
| AIHW |
Australian Institute of Health & Welfare |
| AIIA |
Australian Information Industry Association |
| AMT |
Australian Medicines Terminology |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| ArB |
Architecture Review Board |
| AS HB |
Australian Handbook |
| AS/NZS |
Australian/New Zealand Handbook |
| AS/NZS ISO |
International Standards adopted by Australia and New Zealand |
| AU |
Australia abreviation in the Int'l comment form |
| AWI |
Approved Work Item |
| BAU |
Business As Usual |
| BCA |
Building Codes of Australia |
| BRS |
Business Requirements Specification |
| CAPOLCO |
Consumer policy |
| CASCO |
Conformity Assessment |
| CBCC |
Community Based Collaborative Care (Workshop) |
| CCHIT |
(US) Certification Commission for Health Information Technology |
| CD |
Committee Draft (third stage in developing an ISO or IEC standard) |
| CDA |
Clinical Document Architecture |
| CDISC |
Clinical Data Standards Interchange Consortium |
| CDS |
Clinical Decision Support (Workgroup) |
| CDV |
Committee Draft for Vote |
| CEN |
European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation) |
| CENELEG |
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation |
| CIC |
Clinical Interoperability Council (Workgroup) |
| CIS |
Clinical Information Systems |
| COAG |
Council of Australian Governments |
| COM |
Comment |
| conHIT2011 |
European Health Informatics Conference 2011 |
| CRM |
Customer Relationship Management |
| DAFF |
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
| DAM |
Domain Analysis Model (comprehensive model of a domain) |
| DCM |
Detailed Clinical Model |
| DCOR, COR |
(Draft) Corrigendum |
| DEVCO |
Developing country matters |
| DIA |
Design Institute of Australia |
| DICOM |
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine |
| DIISR |
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research |
| DINZ |
Design Institute of New Zealand |
| DIS |
Draft International Standard (fourth stage in developing an ISO or IEC standard – the main opportunity for public input) |
| DMP |
Dossier Médical Partagé (Shared Medical Record) (France) |
| DoHA |
(Australian Government) Department of Health and Ageing |
| DSTU |
Draft Standards for Trial Use (HL7 and ANSI) |
| EC |
European Commission [the administrative arm of the EU] |
| ECCF |
Enterprise Compliance and Comformance Framework |
| EFMI |
European Federation of Medical Informatics |
| EHR |
Electronic Health Record (Workgroup) |
| EHRS or EHR‑S |
Electronic Health Record System |
| ELGA |
Austrian CDA Implementation Guide in Development |
| ELS |
End Point Location Service |
| EMEA |
European Medicines Agency |
| EN |
European Standard (Européen Norm) |
| ENA |
Energy Networks Association |
| EPM |
Enterprise Project Management |
| ETP |
Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions |
| EU |
European Union |
| FCD |
Final committee draft |
| FDAM |
Final Draft Amendment |
| FDIS |
[ISO] Final Draft International Standard (for vote to publish) |
| FRS |
Functional Requirements Specification |
| FYI |
For your information |
| GCM |
Generic Component Model |
| GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
| GP |
General Practitioner |
| GS1 |
An international SDO – primarily in the supply-chain domain |
| HDF |
HL7 Development Framework |
| HI |
Health Identifiers |
| HIE |
Health Information Exchange |
| HIMSS |
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society |
| HISC |
Health Informatics Standing Committee |
| HITSP |
Health Information Technology Standards Panel |
| HL7 |
Health Level Seven (International) |
| HL7 ELC |
HL7 E-Learning Course |
| HPI |
Healthcare Provider Identifier |
| HPI-I |
Healthcare Provider Identifier for Individuals |
| HPI-O |
Healthcare Provider Identifier for Providers |
| HSSP |
Healthcare Services Specification Project [joint HL7/OMG] |
| IC |
Implementation/Conformance (Workgroup) |
| ICD10AM |
The Australian NCCH modification of ICD-10 codeset for the coding of diseases and procedures |
| ICD10-AM |
International Classification of Diseases, Version 10, Australian Modification |
| ICD9CM |
International Classification of Diseases 9 Clinical Modification |
| ICH |
International Conference on Harmonisation (of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use) |
| ICHPPC |
International Classification of Health Problems in Primary Care |
| ICNP |
International Classification for Nursing Practice |
| ICOGRADA |
International Council of Graphic Design Associations |
| ICPC2+ |
International Classification of Primary Care 2 |
| ICSID |
International Council of the Societies of Industrial Design |
| ICSR |
Individual Case Safety Report [related to Medicines/Devices] |
| ICT |
Information & Communications Technology |
| IDA |
International Design Alliance |
| IDEA |
Industrial Design Excellence Awards |
| IDMP |
Identification of Medicinal Products |
| IDSA |
Industrial Design Society of America |
| IEC |
International Electrotechnical Commission (an international SDO) |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (US) (also an SDO) |
| IF |
International Forum of Design |
| IFI |
International Federation of Architects/ Designers |
| IHE |
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise |
| IHI |
Individual Healthcare Identifier |
| IHTSDO |
International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation |
| InM |
Infrastructure and Messaging (Workgroup) |
| IS |
International Standard |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| ISO/CS |
ISO Central Secretariat |
| ISO/TC 215 |
ISO Technical Committee (Health Informatics) |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| IT-014 |
Standards Australia Committee IT-014 (Health Informatics) |
| ITS |
Implementable Technology Specifications |
| ITTF |
ISO/IEC Information Technology Task Force |
| ITU-T |
International Telecommunications Union – Standards Division |
| IXS |
Identity Cross Reference Service |
| JI |
Joint Initiative on SDO Global Health Informatics Standardization |
| JIC |
Joint Initiative Council (responsible for governance of the JI – with current members being ISO/TC215, CEN/TC251, HL7 International, CDISC, IHTSDO and GS1) |
| JIDPO |
Japanese Industrial Design Promotional Organisation |
| JSC-HIS |
Joint Standing Committee on Health Informatics Standards |
| JTC |
Joint Technical Committee |
| JTC 1 |
ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 Information Technology |
| JWG |
Joint Working Group [under the JI, unless otherwise specified] |
| KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
| LB |
Letter Ballot |
| LMIC |
Low and Medium Income Countries |
| LOINC |
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes |
| LPO |
Local PCEHR Officer |
| MBS |
Medical Benefits Scheme |
| MBUA |
Member Body User Administrators (Person who maintain the ISO Global directory in each country) |
| MDA |
Model Driven Architecture |
| MM |
Maturity Model |
| MnM |
Modeling and Methodology (Workgroup) |
| MOR |
Monthly Operational Report |
| MSIA |
Medical Software Industry Association |
| MT |
Maintanence committee (IEC) |
| NASH |
National Authentication Service for Health |
| NATA |
National Association of Testing Authorities |
| NEHIPC |
National E-Health and Information Principal Committee |
| NEHTA |
(Australian) National E-Health Transition Authority |
| NH&MRC |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
| NHCIOF |
National Health Chief Information Officer Forum |
| NHIN |
(US) National Health Information Network |
| NHISSC |
National Health Information Standards and Statistics Committee |
| NHS |
(UK) National Health Service |
| NIH |
(US) National Institutes of Health |
| NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Testing |
| NMB |
National Member Body [of ISO or CEN] |
| Normapme |
European Office of Crafts, Trades and Small and Medium sized Enterprises for Standardisation |
| NP |
New Work Item Proposal (current ISO/IEC abbreviation) |
| NPACC |
National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council |
| NPC |
National Product Catalogue |
| NSO |
National Standards Office |
| NWIP |
New Work Item Proposal (obsolete ISO/IEC abbreviation – see "NP") |
| O&O |
Orders and Observations (Workgroup) |
| OBPR |
Office of Best Practice Regulation |
| OCL |
Object Constraint Language |
| OID |
Object Identifier |
| OMG |
Object Management Group |
| ONC |
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (within US Department of Health and Human Services) |
| OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection |
| OTF |
Organisation Task Force [ISO TC 215] |
| OWL |
Web Ontology Language |
| PA |
Patient Administration (Workgroup) |
| PACS |
Picture Archive Systems |
| PAS |
Patient Administration Systems |
| PBS |
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme |
| PC |
Patient Care (Workgroup) |
| PCEHR |
Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record |
| PDAM, DAM |
(Proposed) Draft Amendment |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format |
| PDTR, DTR |
(Proposed) Draft Technical Report |
| PHDSC |
Public Health Data Standards Consortium |
| PHER |
Public Health and Emergency Response (Workgroup) |
| PHM |
Powerhouse Museum |
| PHR |
Personal Health Record |
| PHR-S |
Personal Health Record System |
| PHTF |
Public Health Task Force |
| PIM |
Platform Independent Model |
| PIP |
Practice Incentive Payment |
| PIR |
Post Implementation Review |
| PKI |
Public Key Infrastructure |
| PM |
Project Manager |
| PMBOK |
Project Management Body of Knowledge |
| PMO |
Project Management Office |
| PMP |
Project Management Plan |
| PMS |
Practice Management System |
| PMTL |
Project Management Team Leader |
| PoC |
Point-of-Care |
| PSM |
Platform Specific Model |
| RACGP |
Royal Australian College of General Practice |
| RCPA |
Royal College of Pathologists Australia |
| RFID |
Radio Frequency Identification |
| RHIO |
(US) Regional Health Information Organisation |
| RIM |
Reference Information Model |
| RIMBAA |
RIM Based Application Architecture |
| RIS |
Radiology Information Systems |
| RLUS |
Resource Locate Update Service (HSSP) |
| RM-ODP |
Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing |
| RO |
Responsible Officer |
| SA |
Standards Australia |
| SAIF |
Services Aware Interoperability Framework |
| SC |
Subcommittee |
| SDO |
Standards Development Organisation |
| SIG |
Special Interest Group |
| SKMT |
Standards Knowledge Management Tool |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
| SMB |
Standards Management Board (IEC only) |
| SME |
Subject Matter Experts |
| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNOMED |
Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine |
| SNOMED CT |
Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine- Clinical Terms |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SP3 |
Standards Professional Project Practitioners |
| STC |
Technical Steering Committee |
| T3SD |
Technical and Support Services Steering Division |
| TC |
Technical Committee |
| TCM |
Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TEAM |
Traditional East Asian Medicine – This term, though inadequate is used to represent Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Korean Medicine, Traditional Japanese Medicine. |
| TF |
Task Force |
| TM |
Traditional Medicine |
| TMB |
Technical Management Board (ISO only) |
| TOGAF |
The Open Group Architecture Framework |
| TR |
Technical Report (an informative ISO or IEC standards publication) |
| TS |
Technical Specification (a normative standards publication having a lower level of consensus than a full international standard) |
| UAT |
User Acceptance Testing |
| UCUM |
Unified Code for Units of Measure [Regenstrief Institute] |
| UHI |
Unique Healthcare Identifier |
| UML |
Unified Modelling Language |
| UN |
United Nations |
| VA |
Vienna Agreement (between ISO and CEN for joint development of European and International standards) |
| VMR |
Virtual Medical Record |
| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
| WCM |
Web Content Management |
| WD |
Working Draft (second stage in developing an ISO or IEC standard) |
| WG |
Working Group or Work Group |
| WGM |
Working Group Meeting |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
| WI |
Work Item |
| WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
| XDS |
(IHE’s) cross enterprise Data Sharing protocol |
| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |