Acronyms and Glossary
Acronyms & Abbreviations
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AACHC—Arizona Alliance for Community Health Centers <
AAFP—American Academy of Family Physicians
ACCME—Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
ACEP—American College of Emergency Physicians
ACMQ—American College of Medical Quality
ACORN—Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network
ACP—American College of Physicians
ACTS—AHRQ evidence-based Care Transformation Support
AHRQ—Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AI—artificial intelligence
AMA—American Medical Association
AMIA—American Medical Informatics Association
ANSI—American National Standards Institute
API—application programing interface
ASH—American Society of Hematology
ASPE—Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
AU—Australia/Australian
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BPM+—Business Process Management for Healthcare
BPMN—Business Process Model and Notation
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C19HCC—COVID19 Healthcare Coalition
CA—California
CAHPS—Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
CARIN—Creating Access to Real-time Information Now through consumer-directed exchange
CC—Coordinating Center
CCG—Computable Care Guidelines
CDC—Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC-ACG—CDC Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age
CDM—common data model
CDO—Care Delivery Organization
CDS—Clinical Decision Support
CEDAR—CEPI Evidence Discovery & Retrieval
CEPI—Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement
CFACT—Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends
CHSP—Certified Healthcare Safety Professional
CIO—chief information officer
CKD—chronic kidney disease
CMMN—Case Management Model and Notation <
CMS—Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services <
CodeX—Common Oncology Data Elements eXtensions
COKA—COVID19 Knowledge Accelerator
COVID19—2019 novel coronavirus
COVID-END—COVID19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making
CPG—clinical practice guidelines
CQI—continuous quality improvement
CQuIPS—Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
CRN—coordinated registry network
CT—Connecticut
CVD—cardiovascular disease
CVN—Collaborative Ventures Network
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DAS—Decision/Action Support (5 Rights Framework)
DHA—Defense Health Agency
DHO—Digital Hippocratic Oath
DHRSP—Digital Healthcare Research Strategic Plan
DOD—U.S. Department of Defense
DKP—digital knowledge platform
DMN—Decision Model and Notation
dQM—digital quality measure
DRM—digital rights management
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EBM—evidence-based medicine
EBSCO—Elton B. Stephens Company
eCQM—electronic clinical quality measure
ED—emergency department
EHR—electronic health record
EPC—Evidence-based Practice Center
EU—European Union
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FAIR—findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable
FDA—Food and Drug Administration
FHIR—Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
FOA—funding opportunity announcement
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GDP—gross domestic product
GIN—Guidelines International Network
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HCUP—Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
HCUPnet—Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Network
HEDIS—Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set
HHS—U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HIA—Health Information Alliance, Inc.
HIE—health information exchange
HIIN—hospital improvement innovation network
HIMSS—Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
HITECH—Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health \[Act\]
HIV—human immunodeficiency virus
HL7—Health Level Seven International
HRSA—Health Resources and Services Administration
HSPC—Health Services Platform Consortium
HSR—Health Services Research
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IG—implementation guide
IHE—Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
IHS—Indian Health Service
IMO—Intelligent Medical Objects
IOM—Institute of Medicine
PRO—Island Peer Review Organization, Inc.
IT—information technology
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LHS—learning health system
L·OVE—Living OVerview of Evidence
LRC—Librarian Reserve Corps
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MCBK—Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge
MAGIC—Making Grade the Irresistible Choice
MEPS—Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
MHA—Masters of Health(care) Administration
MHS—Military Health System
ML—machine learning
MN—Minnesota
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N3C—National COVID Cohort Collaborative
NA—North America
NACHC—National Association of Community Health Centers
NCATS—National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
NCQA—National Committee for Quality Assurance
Next-Gen—next-generation
NGC—National Guideline Clearinghouse
NHQ—National Health Quality
NHQDR—National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
NHLBI—National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
NIAID—National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NIDDK—National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
NIH—National Institutes of Health
NLM—National Library of Medicine
NLP—Natural Language Processing
NSAIDs—nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
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OC—Office of Communications
OMG—Object Management Group <
OAP—Opioid Action Plan
ONC—The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
OUD—opioid use disorder
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PAR—An NIH special receipt, referral, and/or review considerations program announcement
PBRNs—Practice-Based Research Networks
PCCDS-LN—Patient-Centered CDS Learning Network
PCMH—patient-centered medical home
PCOR—patient-centered outcomes research
PCORI—Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
PCORTF—Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund
PGHD—patient-generated health data
PHR—personal health record
PICO—patient intervention, comparison, outcome
PPP—public–private partnership
PROs—patient-reported outcomes
PSNet—Patient Safety Network
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QI—quality improvement
QME—Quality Measurement Enterprise
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RESC—Roadmap Execution Steering Committee
RFI—request for information
ROI—return on investment
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SDOH—social determinants of health
SAMHSA—Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SRDR+—Systematic Review Data Repository Plus
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T2D—type 2 diabetes
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U—University
UI—user interface
UM—University of Michigan
U MN—University of Minnesota
USCDI—U.S. Core Data for Interoperability
USHIK—United States Health Information Knowledgebase
USPSTF—U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
UT—University of Texas
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VA—U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
VCU—Virginia Commonwealth University
VHA—Veterans Health Administration
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WG—workgroup
WHO—World Health Organization
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Glossary
This appendix defines terminology used in the context of this ACTS Roadmap Report, augmented by definitions from AHRQ's PSNet Glossary (346).
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Data—Clinical, patient-provided, and social determinants of health information
Digital Knowledge Platform—A platform that stores and shares computable information in the form of FAIR, computable, and useful evidence, tools, resources, and other offerings based on a universally adopted reference architecture
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Evidence—Medical research systematically reviewed and processed into knowledge, tools, and resources
Evidence-based—An assertion about some aspect of medical care that reflects the preponderance of results from relevant medical research studies of good methodological quality
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Guidance—Knowledge, tools, and resources derived from systematically reviewed evidence that are applied to improve decisions and actions
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Knowledge—Research results, synthesized evidence, clinical guidance, and decision support tools
Knowledge Ecosystem—The environment in which people use processes and technology to address the seamless flow of healthcare information around the LHS cycle in ways that deliver desired outcomes
Knowledge Ecosystem Cycle—The functional knowledge ecosystem that enables the LHS cycle
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LHS Cycle—Health, care delivery, and QI actions produce data about results, which is processed into evidence about effective actions, which is processed into knowledge, tools, and resources that inform subsequent action in a continuous cycle
Living—Continually evolving based on new information
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Marketplace—Public or private repositories comprised of interoperable DKPs used to disseminate living evidence, guidance, tools, and resources
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Quintuple Aim—A goal where the healthcare system simultaneously enhances patient experience, improves population health, reduces costs, and improves clinician experience
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Resources—Evidence-based sources of information or expertise
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