Tip: Decipher acronyms with this helpful list
Compliance Monitor, January 23, 2008
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The National Alliance for Health Information Technology is spearheading the effort to develop a list of consensus-based definitions of important health information technology terms.
In the interim, the following list of acronyms is a useful resource:
- CCR (continuity of care record): A subset of the patient medical record used to provide a basic set of data from one episode of care to another
- CDR or CDW (clinical data repository or warehouse): A decision support database where defined subsets of data related to patient care activities are housed in a longitudinal fashion and utilized for business intelligence purposes
- CHIN (community health information network): A shared resource for defined local or regional communities and businesses that have agreed to exchange health information
- CIS (clinical information system): Applications that are used primarily during active patient care to produce clinical documentation
- CPOE (computerized physician order entry): A system providing automated physician-originated entry of orders during patient care that eliminates the middle step of transcription orders by other care-giving staff members
This tip is brought to you by the January issue of Medical Records Briefing.
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