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EHR Connection, January 14, 2008
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. It is the first installment of a special three-part series in Electronic Health Record Connection.
- 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. Look for more acronym definitions in the January 21 and January 28 issues of Electronic Health Record Connection.
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