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AAFP - The American Academy of Family Practiontioners is a medical specialty society that represents 90,000 physicians and medical students. See also CCR.

Access Controls - Hardware, software or operating policies that control access to facilities, computer devices and computerized systems (from an individual program to a network). See also AUTHENTICATION, AUTHORIZATION.

ADT - Admission-Discharge-Transfer, the key data set in a hospital information system that maintains and updates the patient census.

Aggregated Data - A set of data compiled for activities such as Public Health or clinical research that is not identifiable at the level of an individual person.

AHIC - American Health Information Community, a 17 member federal advisory body assembled in 2005 to make recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on how to accelerate the development and adoption of health information technology. See also HHS, ONC.

AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association

AHRQ - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is major division in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of AHRQ is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. See also HHS.

AMA - American Medical Association. See also CPT.

AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association, a national member society of IMIA. See also IMIA, INFORMATICS.

ANSI - The American National Standards Institute is the U.S. member body to the ISO. ANSI does not write standards; rather the Institute accredits standards developers that will establish consensus among qualified groups. See also HITSP and ISO.

ASP - Application Service Provider, a type of Client-Server installation where a a business hosts computer-based services for customers to access across a network, such as EHR or PMS solutions accessed over the Internet. See also CLIENT-SERVER, EHR, PMS.

ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials began as a domestic engineering standards body and recently evolved into an international standards organization (ISO). See also CCR and ISO.

Audit Logs - Records created by hardware (servers, routers, firewalls, etc.) or software (data bases, network systems, individual applications, etc.) that track when data are created, modified, transmitted or destroyed, including the identity of the user initiating the action.

Authentication - The physical or process method or methods employed to prove that the person or entity seeking access to information has the proper authorization. Generally used to protect confidential information by limiting access to computer systems to authorized users. Passwords are an example of a commonly employed authentication process. See also ACCESS CONTROLS, AUTHORIZATION, NON-REPUDIATION.

Authorization - A system established to grant access to generally confidential information. Authorization generally establishes the level of access an individual or entity has to data based on the identity established by an authentication process. See also ACCESS CONTROLS, AUTHENTICATION.


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	Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z AAFP - The American Academy of Family Practiontioners is a medical specialty society that represents 90,000 physicians and medical students. See also CCR. Access Controls - Hardware, software or operating policies that control access to facilities, computer devices and computerized systems (from an individual program to a network). See also AUTHENTICATION, AUTHORIZATION. ADT - Admission-Discharge-Transfer, the key data set in a hospital information system that maintains and updates the patient census. Aggregated Data - A set of data compiled for activities such as Public Health or clinical research that is not identifiable at the level of an individual person. AHIC - American Health Information Community, a 17 member federal advisory body assembled in 2005 to make recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on how to accelerate the development and adoption of health information technology. See also HHS, ONC. top AHIMA - American Health Information Management Association AHRQ - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is major division in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of AHRQ is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. See also HHS. AMA - American Medical Association. See also CPT. AMIA - American Medical Informatics Association, a national member society of IMIA. See also IMIA, INFORMATICS. ANSI - The American National Standards Institute is the U.S. member body to the ISO. ANSI does not write standards; rather the Institute accredits standards developers that will establish consensus among qualified groups. See also HITSP and ISO. ASP - Application Service Provider, a type of Client-Server installation where a a business hosts computer-based services for customers to access across a network, such as EHR or PMS solutions accessed over the Internet. See also CLIENT-SERVER, EHR, PMS. ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials began as a domestic engineering standards body and recently evolved into an international standards organization (ISO). See also CCR and ISO. Audit Logs - Records created by hardware (servers, routers, firewalls, etc.) or software (data bases, network systems, individual applications, etc.) that track when data are created, modified, transmitted or destroyed, including the identity of the user initiating the action. top Authentication - The physical or process method or methods employed to prove that the person or entity seeking access to information has the proper authorization. Generally used to protect confidential information by limiting access to computer systems to authorized users. Passwords are an example of a commonly employed authentication process. See also ACCESS CONTROLS, AUTHORIZATION, NON-REPUDIATION. Authorization - A system established to grant access to generally confidential information. Authorization generally establishes the level of access an individual or entity has to data based on the identity established by an authentication process. See also ACCESS CONTROLS, AUTHENTICATION.

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