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NAHIT - National Alliance for Health Information Technology. Disbanded in 2009.

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

NCQA - The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. See NQF

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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. See HHS

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, 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.).

NHII - National Health Information Infrastructure. An older term replaced by NHIN in 2004. See NHIN

NHIN - Nationwide Health Information Network. See ONC

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NHIN Direct - A substantial new technology development effort from ONC for rapid community development of "simple interop" style transport protocols conforming to the overall framework provided by the NHIN Workgroup. See Simple Interop, Wiki

NIH - National Institutes of Health. See HHS

NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology

NLM - National Library of Medicine. See HHS

NLP - Natural Language Processing.

NOC - Network Operations Center.

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 Authetication

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

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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. See NCQA

NTE - HL7 clinical note segment. See HL7


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	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 NAHIT - National Alliance for Health Information Technology. Disbanded in 2009. 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 NCQA - The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. See NQF top 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. See HHS 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, 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.). NHII - National Health Information Infrastructure. An older term replaced by NHIN in 2004. See NHIN NHIN - Nationwide Health Information Network. See ONC top NHIN Direct - A substantial new technology development effort from ONC for rapid community development of "simple interop" style transport protocols conforming to the overall framework provided by the NHIN Workgroup. See Simple Interop, Wiki NIH - National Institutes of Health. See HHS NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology NLM - National Library of Medicine. See HHS NLP - Natural Language Processing. NOC - Network Operations Center. 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 Authetication 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 top 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. See NCQA NTE - HL7 clinical note segment. See HL7

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