# Appendix E - Acronyms - Clinical Quality Language Specification v2.0.0

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## Appendix E - Acronyms

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| **AHRQ** | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| **ANTLR4** | ANother Tool for Language Recognition (version 4) |
| **CDA** | Clinical Document Architecture |
| **CDS** | Clinical Decision Support |
| **CDSC L3** | Clinical Decision Support Consortium Level 3 |
| **CDS KAS** | Clinical Decision Support Knowledge Artifact Specification |
| **CMS** | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services |
| **CPT** | Current Procedural Terminology |
| **CQL** | Clinical Quality Language |
| **CQM** | Clinical Quality Measure |
| **CREF** | Allscripts Common Rule Engine Format (CREF) specification |
| **CTS2** | Common Terminology Services 2 |
| **DAM** | Domain Analysis Model |
| **DSTU** | Draft Standard for Trial Use |
| **eCQI** | Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement |
| **eCQM** | Electronic Clinical Quality Measure |
| **EHR** | Electronic Health Record |
| **ELM** | Expression Logical Model |
| **EMR** | Electronic Medical Record |
| **eRecs** | AHRQ Electronic Recommendations |
| **FHIR** | Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources |
| **GEM** | Guidelines Element Model |
| **HeD** | Health eDecisions |
| **HIE** | Health Information Exchange |
| **HIT** | Health Information Technology |
| **HITECH Act** | Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act |
| **HIPAA** | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| **HITSP** | Health Information Technology Standards Panel |
| **HL7** | Health Level 7 |
| **HQMF** | Health Quality Measure Format |
| **ICD-9-CM** | International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision |
| **ICD-10** | International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision |
| **IHTSDO** | International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization |
| **ISO** | International Organization for Standardization |
| **LOINC** | Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes |
| **MAT** | Measure Authoring Tool |
| **NCQA** | National Committee for Quality Assurance |
| **NQF** | National Quality Foundation |
| **OID** | Object Identifier |
| **ONC** | Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
| **PHR** | Personal Health Record |
| **QDM** | Quality Data Model |
| **QRDA** | Quality Reporting Document Architecture |
| **QUICK** | Quality Improvement and Clinical Knowledge |
| **RIM** | Reference Information Model |
| **SI** | International System of Units |
| **SNOMED-CT** | Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms |
| **SQL** | Structured Query Language |
| **UCUM** | Unified Code for Units of Measure |
| **UML** | Unified Modeling Language |
| **URI** | Uniform Resource Identifier |
| **URL** | Uniform Resource Locator |
| **URN** | Uniform Resource Name |
| **USHIK** | United States Health Information Knowledgebase |
| **UTC** | Coordinated Universal Time |
| **VSAC** | Value Set Authority Center |
| **XMI** | XML Metadata Interchange |
| **XML** | eXtended Markup Language |

Table 12‑A - Acronyms used in this specification

