Clinical Quality Language Release 1 STU2 (w/ Errata) (1.2.1)
This is Clinical Quality Language STU2.1 (1.2 Published w/ Errata) in it's permanent home (it will always be available at this URL). It has been superseded by 1.4.
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| Clinical Decision Support Work Group | Maturity Level: 4 | Ballot Status: STU 2.1 |
| Acronym | Definition/Description |
|---|---|
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 |
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