Glossary
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NAHIT - National Alliance for Health Information Technology
NCHS - National Center for Health Statistics provides comprehensive information on births, deaths, aging, disease classification and other health statistics. See also CDC.
NCQA - The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. See also NQF.
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 also HHS.
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 also NHIN.
NHIN - Nationwide Health Information Network. See also ONC.
NIH - National Institutes of Health. See also HHS.
NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLM - National Library of Medicine. See also HHS.
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 also AUTHENTICATION.
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 also NCQA.
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