| Term | Explication | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AND | Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics | World's largest association of food and nutrition professionals headquartered in Chicago, Illinois |
| BMI | Body Mass Index | Weight in kg/height in meter squared typically used as measure of weight status |
| CDA | Clinical Documentation Architecture | HL7 markup standard which specifies structure and semantics of electronic clinical documents |
| C-CDA | Consolidated Clinical Documentation Architecture | An HL7 library of CDA formatted documents |
| CDS | Clinical Decision Support | Electronic health information to help inform decisions about a patient's care |
| CMS | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services | An organizational unit of the US federal government's Department of Health and Human Services which assures healthcare to elderly and underserved populations |
| CRG | Clinical Reference Group | Clinical engagement structure in SNOMED CT, Introduction - Clinical Reference Groups |
| EHR | Electronic Health Record | The electronic, digitized version of a patients paper medical record |
| ENCPRS | Electronic Nutrition Care Process Record System | https://www.standict.eu/standards-repository/hl7-ehr-system-electronic-nutrition-care-process-record-system-encprs |
| EU | European Union | Supranational economic and political union of twenty-seven European countries and their territories |
| FHIR | Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources | HL7 standard for exchanging health information electronically link |
| HIE | Health Information Exchange | Allows health care professionals and patients to appropriately access and securely share medical information electronically |
| HL7 | Health Level Seven International | "a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services." https://www.hl7.org/ |
| HbA1C | Hemoglobin A1C,glycolated hemoglobin | Blood test used to assess blood glucose control over preceding 2-3 months |
| IBD | Irritable Bowel Disease | Lifelong diseases that affect the intestines |
| IPS | International Patient Summary | The International Patient Summary is a minimal and non-exhaustive set of basic clinical data of a patient, specialty-agnostic, condition-independent, but readily usable by all clinicians for the unscheduled (cross-border) patient care. https://international-patient-summary.net/ |
| K-CDA IG | Korean Clinical Documentation Architecture Implementation Guide | An example of adaptation of HL7 CDA to meet social and cultural HIE needs of a country |
| NCP | Nutrition Care Process | Systematic method that dietetics and nutrition professionals use to provide nutrition care. Fully described in Section 2. |
| NCPM | Nutrition Care Process Model | Illustrated in Chapter 2 |
| NCPT | Nutrition Care Process Terminology | Terms which support the NCP as described in Chapter 2 |
| PS-CA | Pan-Canadian Patient Summary | Canadian adaptation of the IPS concept |
| SDO | Standards Development Organization | ISO (International Organization for Standardization, https://www.iso.org/home.html ) and ANSI (American National Standards Institute, https://www.ansi.org/) are examples of SDOs. HL7 is ANSI accredited. |
| USCDI | United States Core Data for Interoperability | A standardized set of health data classes and constituent data elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange, https://www.healthit.gov/isp/united-states-core-data-interoperability-uscdi |
| VSAC | Value Set Authority Center | A repository and authoring tool for public value sets created by external programs. Value sets are lists of codes and corresponding terms, from NLM-hosted standard clinical vocabularies (such as SNOMED CT®, RxNorm, LOINC® and others), that define clinical concepts to support effective and interoperable health information exchange. https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/ |
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