| AHIC (American Health Information Community) |
| The American Health Information Community (AHIC) is a federal advisory body, chartered in 2005 to make recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on how to accelerate the development and adoption of health information technology. AHIC was formed by the Secretary to help advance efforts to achieve President Bush's goal for most Americans to have access to secure electronic health records by 2014. |
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| Center for Health Transformation |
| The Center for Health Transformation is a collaboration of public and private sector leaders dedicated to the creation of a 21st Century Intelligent Health System in which knowledge saves lives and saves money for every American. |
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| CCHIT (Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology) |
| The mission of CCHIT is to accelerate the adoption of robust, interoperable HIT throughout the US healthcare system, by creating an efficient, credible, sustainable mechanism for the certification of HIT products. |
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| Connecting For Health (The Markle Foundation) |
| Connecting for Health is a public-private collaborative designed to address the barriers to development of an interconnected health information infrastructure. The ability to deliver medical information where and when it is needed in a private and secure manner will help to improve the quality of care, reduce medical errors, lower costs and empower patients. |
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| eHealth Initiative |
| The eHealth Initiative and the Foundation for eHealth Initiative are independent, non-profit affiliated organizations whose missions are the same: to drive improvement in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology. |
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| HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) |
| HIMSS is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology and management systems for the betterment of human health. |
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| HITSP (Health Information Technology Standards Panel) |
| The mission of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel is to serve as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States. |
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| HL7 (Health Level Seven) |
| Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare arena. Most SDOs produce standards (sometimes called specifications or protocols) for a particular healthcare domain such as pharmacy, medical devices, imaging or insurance (claims processing) transactions. Health Level Seven's domain is clinical and administrative data. |
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| ELINCS (EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standards) |
| ELINCS is developing a National Lab Data Standard for EHRs. The ELINCS specification is an HL7-based message profile for the reporting of lab results from laboratory information systems to electronic health records (EHRs) in the outpatient setting. |
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| IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) |
| IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. |
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| LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes) |
| The purpose of the LOINC database (developed by Regenstrief Institute) is to facilitate the exchange and pooling of results, such as blood hemoglobin, serum potassium, or vital signs, for clinical care, outcomes management, and research. |
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| ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) |
| On April 27, 2004, President Bush called for widespread adoption of interoperable EHRs within 10 years, and also established the position of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. |
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| PA eHealth Initiative |
| The Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative is a collaboration of over 40 health care-related organizations that plan to create an electronic patient data network that will ultimately tie into a national system allowing patients and doctors to securely access medical records throughout the country. |
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