Acronyms are everywhere! While medical acronyms are beneficial in a clinical setting, they are often very confusing to the consumer. Below are some of of the common acronyms and their meanings to lessen the confusion.
- SaaS
- HIPAA
- EMR
- Electronic Medical Record (Wikipedia) - Stand alone computerized medical record system for health information storage, modification and retrieval of records.
- EHR
- Electronic Health Record (Wikipedia)
- Systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients.
- Electronic entry of pharmacy, lab and consultation data
- The ability to share electronic health records with other care providers.
- Ability for patients to manage own personal health record.
- ARRA
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Wikipedia) - $787 billion stimulus bill. Designates approximately $20 billion for the improvement of health IT.
- acuPortal
- acuEHR
- CMS
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid - In charge of EHR stimulus funds and for determining "Meaningful Use" of an electronic health record.
