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
ADL	Archetype Definition Language
AG	Advisory Group
AHIEC	The Australian Health Informatics Education Council
AHIMA	American Health Information Management Association
AHMAC	Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council
AHML	Australian Healthcare Messaging Laboratory
AIHW	Australian Institute of Health & Welfare
AIIA	Australian Information Industry Association
AMT	Australian Medicines Terminology
AMIA	American Informatics Association
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
ANZCTR	Australia New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry
API	Application Programming Interface
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
ATNA	Audit Trail and Node Authentication (IHE Standard)
AU	Australia abreviation in the Int'l comment form
AWI	Approved Work Item
BAM	Business Architecture Model (HL7 ARB Project)
BAM	Business Architecture Model (HL7 International)
BAU	Business As Usual
BRIDG	Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group BRIDG is a collaborative effort of CDISC, the HL7 RCRIM WG, the (US) National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
BRS	Business Requirements Specification
BYOD	Bring Your Own Device
Cal-X	The California Exchange (Cal-X) is a data and information exchange to support healthcare, medical, public health, and homeland security needs in a collaborative, shared, secure, and cost-effective manner.
COPOLCO	Consumer Policy Committee [ISO]
CASCO	Conformity Assessment
CBCC	Community Based Collaborative Care (Workshop)
CCD	Continuity of Care Document
CCS	Care Coordination Service
CCHIT	(US) Certification Commission for Health Information Technology
CD	Committee Draft (third stage in developing an ISO or IEC standard)
CDA	Clinical Document Architecture
CDC	Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (within US/DHHS)
CDISC	Clinical Data Standards Interchange Consortium
CDS	Clinical Decision Support [HL7 Workgroup]
CDV	Committee Draft for Vote
CEN	European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
CENELEC	European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation
CEO	Chief Executive Officer
CGIT	Conformance and Guidance for Implementation and Testing Committee
CIC	Clinical Interoperability Council (Workgroup)
CIMI	Clinical Information Modelling Initiative
CIS	Clinical Information Systems
CMS	Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services (within US/DHHS)
COAG	Council of Australian Governments
COM	Comment
conHIT2011	European Health Informatics Conference 2011
ContSys	System of Concepts for Continuity of Care
COR	Corrigendum [to a Standard]
CPOE	Computerized Physician Order Entry or Computerized Provider Order Entry (In US)
CRM	Customer Relationship Management
CTO	Chief Technical Officer
CTR&R	Clinical Trials Registration and Results
DAFF	Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
DAM	Domain Analysis Model (comprehensive model of a domain) [HL7]
DAM	Draft Amendment [Standards Australia]
DCM	Detailed Clinical Model
DCOR, COR	(Draft) Corrigendum
DEVCO	Committee on Developing Country Matters [ISO]
DHHS	Department of Health & Human Services (US Government Agency)
DICOM	Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DIISR	Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research
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
DS4P	Data Segmentation for Privacy
DSTU	Draft Standards for Trial Use (HL7 and ANSI)
DTR	Draft Technical Report [ISO and Standards Australia]
DTS	Draft Technical Specification [ISO and Standards Australia]
DVA	(Australian Government) Department of Veterans Affairs
EC	European Commission [the administrative arm of the EU]
ECCF	Enterprise Compliance and Comformance Framework
EEC	European Economic Community
EFMI	European Federation of Medical Informatics
eHIF	E-health Interoperability Framework [Standards Australia & NEHTA]
EHR	Electronic Health Record (Workgroup)
EHR-FM	EHR Functional Model
EHRS or EHR‑S	Electronic Health Record System
ELGA	Austrian CDA Implementation Guide in Development
ELS	End Point Location Service
EMEA	European Medicines Agency
EMR	Electronic Medical Record or Electronic Medical Record System
EN	European Standard (Européen Norm)
EPM	Enterprise Project Management
epSOS	European Patients Smart Open Services. A European initiative (23 countries) to exchange pharmacy information including prescriptions, across the EEC using IHE profiles and local standards. See www.epsos.eu
ETP	Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions
EU	European Union
EudraCT	European Union Drug Regulating Authorities Clinical Trials
FCD	Final committee draft
FDA	US Food and Drug Administration
FDAM	Final Draft Amendment
FDIS	[ISO] Final Draft International Standard (for vote to publish)
FHIR	Fast Health Interoperability Resources [HL7]
FRS	Functional Requirements Specification
FYI	For your information
GCM	Generic Component Model
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GP	General Practitioner
GSRN	Global Service Relation Number
GS1	An international SDO – primarily in the supply-chain domain
GVP	Good Pharmacovigilance Practices
HCD	Health Care Devices Committee
HDF	HL7 Development Framework
HeD	Health E-Decisions (project or group within ONC for decision support in MU3)
HI	Health Identifiers
HIE	Health Information Exchange
HIMSS	Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
HingX	Health Ingenuity Exchange (HL7 International & OHT)
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
HQMF	Health Quality Measure Format
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
ICPC2+	International Classification of Primary Care 2
ICSR	Individual Case Safety Report [related to Medicines/Devices]
ICT	Information & Communications Technology
IDMP	Identification of Medicinal Products
IEC	International Electrotechnical Commission (an international SDO)
IEEE	Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (US) (also an SDO)
IG	Implementation Guide
IHE	Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
IHI	Individual Healthcare Identifier
IHPA	Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (Australian)
IHTSDO	International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation
IMATF	International Membership and Affiliation Task Force
IMC	International Mentoring Committee (HL7)
InM	Infrastructure and Messaging (Workgroup)
IP	Intellectual Property
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 [OMG/HL7 HSSP]
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, GS1 and IHE)
JSC-HIS	Joint Standing Committee on Health Informatics Standards
JSON	Java script Object Notation - a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. Java script can combine data and behaviour and is available on a wide range of devices. It can be used to effectively combine data representation and actions (workflow)
JTC	Joint Technical Committee
JTC 1	ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee  1 Information Technology
JWG	Joint Working Group [under the JI, unless otherwise specified]
JWG7	Joint working group of IEC SC 62A and ISO TC 215
KPI	Key Performance Indicator
LB	Letter Ballot
LIC	Low Income Country
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
MDHT	Model-Driven Health Tools
MDMI	Model Driven Message Interoperability – see www.mdmi-consortium.org
MIC	Medium Income Country
MIF	Model Interchange Format
MLM	Medical Logic Module
MEDEV	Medical Devices Corporation
MITRE	A large “not for profit” USA organisation specialising in technology development
MM	Maturity Model
MnM	Modeling and Methodology (Workgroup)
MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
MSIA	Medical Software Industry Association
MT	Maintanence committee (IEC)
MU2/MU3	Meaningful Use Stage 2 and Stage 3 (US Initiative)
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
NHPA	National Health Performance Authority (Australian)
NHS	(UK) National Health Service
NIH	(US) National Institutes of Health
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)
NLM	National Library of Medicine (USA)
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
NQF	National quality (measures) framework
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
OHT	Open Health Tools Foundation (www.openhealthtools.org)
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 & Communication System
PAS	Patient Administration System
PASS	Privacy Access and Security Service
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)
PHR	Personal Health Record
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
PSS	Project Scope Statement [HL7]
PSUR	Periodic Safety Update Report
PWG	Pharmacy Working Group (HL7)
QDM	Quality Data Model of the US National Quality Forum
RACGP	Royal Australian College of General Practice
RCPA	Royal College of Pathologists Australia
RCRIM	Regulated Clinical Research Information Management [HL7 Workgroup]
RDF	Resource Description Framework (W3C)
REST	Representative State Transfer - REST is an architectural style that can be summed up as four verbs (GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE from HTTP 1.1) and the nouns, which are the resources available on the network (referenced in the URI). The term was first coined in a thesis by Roy Fielding and is an alternative Web architecture to SOAP.
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)
RMIM	Refined Message Information Model
RM-ODP	Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing
RO	Responsible Officer
SA	Standards Australia
SAIF	Services Aware Interoperability Framework
SBP	Strategic Business Plan [ISO & IEC]
SC	Subcommittee
SD	Structured Documents [HL7 Workgroup]
SDO	Standards Development Organisation
SHARPS	Strategic Healthcare IT Advanced Research Projects on Security
SHIPPS	Semantic Health Information Performance and Privacy Standard
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
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)
TSC	HL7 Technical Steering Committee
UAT	User Acceptance Testing
UCUM	Unified Code for Units of Measure [Regenstrief Institute]
UHI	Unique Healthcare Identifier
UML	Unified Modelling Language
UN	United Nations
VMR	Virtual Medical Record
VOC	Vocabulary Committee (HL7)
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