Health Informatics 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
NACCHO -
National Association of City and
County Health Officials. See
ASTHO,
Biosurveillance,
CDC,
CDPH,
CSTE,
ISDS,
WHO
NAHIT - National Alliance for Health
Information Technology. Disbanded in 2009.
NAPHSIS -
National Association for Public
Health Statistics and Information Systems.
NCHS -
National Center for Health Statistics
provides comprehensive information on births, deaths, aging, disease
classification and other health statistics. See
CDC
NCI - National
Cancer Institute.
NCPDP -
National Council for Prescription
Drug Programs is an ANSI-accredited Standards Development
Organization (SDO). See
ANSI,
SDO
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NCQA - The
National Committee for Quality
Assurance is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization
dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA quality measures
are based on billing and claims data, and therefore are more
focused on optimization of the purchasing of health care services
than on the clinical effectiveness of the care delivered.
See
NQF,
HEDIS
NCVHS -
National Committee on Vital and
Health Statistics is the statutory public advisory body on
health data, statistics and national health information policy
for the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. NCVHS was created by the HIPAA legislation. See
HHS,
HIPAA
NEDSS - National
Electronic Disease Surveillance System.
NeHC - The National
eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership
established through a grant from the Office of the National
Coordinator to build on the accomplishments of the American Health
Information Community (AHIC), a federal advisory committee to HHS
until 2008. See
AHIC,
FACA,
HHS,
ONC
NEMSIS - National
Emergency Medical Services Information System.
Network - A collection
of computing devices connected by communications channels. Networks
can be wired, wireless, open, closed, local, global, etc.
NGA - National
Governors Association.
NGO -
Non-Governmental
Organization (e.g., Médecins Sans
Frontières, Amnesty
International, etc.).
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NHII -
National
Health Information Infrastructure. A deprecated term replaced in
2004 by NHIN. See
LHII,
NHIN,
NwHIN
NHIN - ("enn-hinn")
A discontinued abbreviation for the Nationwide Health
Information Network. This term was replaced in 2010 by NwHIN.
See
LHII,
NHII,
NwHIN,
ONC
NHIN Direct - A new push transport
specification sponsored by
ONC as community development of a "simple interop" style protocol
conforming to the overall framework provided by the
NHIN
Workgroup. See
Simple Interop
NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
See
ICU
NIEM - ("neem")
National Information Exchange Model.
See
IEPD
NIH -
National Institutes of Health.
See
HHS
NIST - ("nist")
The National Institute of Standards
and Technology is a non-regulatory federal agency within the
Department of Commerce. See
FIPS,
FISMA
NLM -
National Library of Medicine.
See
HHS
NLP - Natural
Language Processing. See
CUI,
NP,
VP
NOC - Network Operations Center.
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Noise - Unwanted pertubation
accompanying a wanted signal. See
Analog,
Channel,
Signal
Non-repudiation -
Non-repudiation
is a system feature ensuring that a system-level event (e.g., a user
login) cannot later be denied by the participant involved in the event.
Non-repudiation is the opposite of plausible deniability. See
Access Control,
Authetication
NP - Noun phrase. See
CUI,
NLP
NPI - National Provider
Identifier, maintained by CMS as part of NPPES. See
CMS,
NPPES
NPPES - HIPAA mandated the
adoption of standard unique identifiers for health care plans and
providers. In response, CMS developed and maintains the
National
Plan and Provider Enumeration System. See
CMS,
HIPAA,
UPIN
NPRM - Notice of Proposed Rule Making.
See
IFR
NQF - The
National Quality Forum is a
private, not-for-profit membership organization created to develop
and implement a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement
and reporting. NQF quality measures are based on clinical data.
See
NCQA
NTE - HL7 clinical
note segment. See
HL7
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NwHIN - ("new-hin" or
"enn-win") The Nationwide Health Information Network is
a collection of standards, protocols, legal agreements, specifications,
and services to enable secure exchange of health information. The
acronym NwHIN has the exact same meaning as the prior acronym,
NHIN, namely the "Nationwide Health Information
Network." Curiously, after six years of widespread national use of the
previous acronym "NHIN" (and its corresponding pronounciation
"enn-hinn") ONC announced in 2010 that it would retain the name
"Nationwide Health Information Network" but it would cease use of the
acronym "NHIN" due to its prior commercial use by a
vendor.
See
CONNECT,
DURSA,
FHA,
NeHC,
NHIN,
Prototype Architecture,
ONC,
Trial Implementation
NwHIN Exchange - A group of federal
agencines and private organizations that have come together to
securely exchange electronic health information. See
DURSA
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