Acronyms
A
ACDM Access, Continuity, Delivery, and Management
ACO Accountable Care Organization
AdEERS Adverse Event Expedited Reporting System
ALL Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
AMI Academic Medical Institutes
ANSI American National Standards Institute
API Application Program Interface
AQL Acceptable Quality Level
ASP Application Service Provider
B
BI Business Intelligence
BMDP Biomedical Package
BPR Business Process Reengineering
C
C3PR Cancer Central Clinical Participant Registry
C&A Certification and Accreditation
caBIG cancer BioInformatics Grid
caCORE cancer Common Ontology Research Environment
caCORE SDK caCORE Software Development Kit
caDSR cancer Data Standards Repository
caEVS cancer Enterprise Vocabulary Services
CBT Computer Based Training
CCD Continuity of Care Document
CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate
CCR Central Contractor Registration
CDE Common Data Elements
CDHD Chronic Disease and Health Disparity
CDISC Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
CDP Career Development Paths
CDS Clinical Data System
CER Comparative Effectiveness Research
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CIA Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability
CIB Clinical Informatics Branch
CIBISCIT Clinical Investigations Branch Information System and Clinical IT
CIPS Cancer Information Products and System
CISM Certified Information Security Manager
CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional
CMDB Configuration Management Database
CMMI Capability Maturity Model Integration
CO Contracting Officer
COA Contract of Affreightment
COE Centers of Excellence
COR Contracting Officer’s Representative
COTR Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (also known as COR)
COTS Commercial Off The Shelf
CPARS Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System
CPIC HHS IT Capital Planning and Investment Control
CPAR Contractor Performance Assessment Report
CRF Case Report Forms
CRUD Create, Read, Update, and Delete
CSM Common Security Model
CTA Contractor Team Arrangement
CTCAE Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
CTEP Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program
CTEP-ESYS CTEP – Enterprise System
CTIS Capital Technology Information Services, Inc.
CTRM Clinical Trial Research and Management
CTSA Clinical and Translational Science Award
D
DAIDS Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
DAIDS-ES DAIDS – Enterprise System
DAIDS-RCC DAIDS – Regulatory Compliance Center
DAM Database Activity Monitoring
DARTS Drug Authorization and Review Tracking System
DBA Defense Base Act
DBMS Data Base Management System
DCAA Defense Contract Audit Agency
DCMA Defense Contract Management Agency
DCTD Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
DD Prefix to Department of Defense Forms
DFARS Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement
DIDS Database Intrusion Detection System
DMS Document Management System
DoD Department of Defense
Docu-MART Document Management, Authoring, Review and Tracking
DRM Data Reference Model
DSSR Department of State Standardized Regulations
E
EAE Expedited Adverse Events
eCRF Electronic Case Report Form
EDC Electronic Data Capture
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
EHR Electronic Health Record
EIT Electronic and Information
EMR Emergency Medical Record
EnSURe Enterprise Standard Unified Repository
EPEAT Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
EPLC HHS Enterprise Performance Life Cycle
EPM Enterprise Project Management
EV Earned Value
EVC Economic Value Compounded
EVM EV Management
EVMS EVM System
EVP Earned Value Professional
EVS Enterprise Vocabulary System
F
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FEA Federal Enterprise Architecture
FEAF Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework
FHA Federal Health Architecture
FIPS PUB Federal Information Processing Standards Publication
FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act
FOI Freedom of Information
G
GAO Government Accountability Office
GCP Good Clinical Practice
H
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
HIE Health Information Exchange
HIO Health Information Organization
HIT Health Information Technology
HHSAR HHS Acquisition Regulation
HL7 Health Level 7
HR Human Resources
HRMS HR Management Systems
HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive
HTML HyperText Markup Language
HTS High-Throughput-Screening
HUBZone Historically Underutilized Business Zones
I
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IAMMM The Institute for the Advancement of Multicultural & Minority Medicine
ICs Institutes and Centers (of the NIH)
ICD International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
ICH International Committee on Harmonization
ICT Information and Communication Technologies
IDIQ Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity
IEEAF International Equal Education Access Foundation
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IG Inspector General
IMS Infrastructure Management Services
IND Investigational New Drugs
IPECC Initiation, Planning, Execution, Controlling, and Closing
ISAPI Internet Server Application Programming Interface
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISSO Information Systems Security Officer
IT Information Technology
ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library
IT-SC&A Information Technology Security Certification and Accreditation
IT-RA Information Technology Risk Assessment
ITSM IT Service Management
IT-SP IT Security Plan
IV&V Independent Verification and Validation
J
J2EE Java Platform Enterprise Edition
K
KM Knowledge Management
KW Knowledge Worker
KWP Knowledge Worker Framework
L
LOINC Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
M
MedDRA Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities
MS Microsoft
MS TFS Microsoft Team Foundation Server
N
NAICS North American Industry Classification System
NARA National Archives and Records Administration
NCI National Cancer Institute
NCICB NCI Center for Bioinformatics
NCHICA North Carolina Health Information Communication Alliance
NCR Non-Compliance Reports
NHIE Nationwide Health Information Exchange
NHIN Nationwide Health Information Network
NHLBI National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
NIACAP National Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process
NIAID National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NICHD National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIST National Institutes of Standards and Technology
NITAAC NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center
O
ODS Operational Data Store
OHSL Open Health Systems Laboratory
OID Oracle Internet Directory
OMB Office of Management and Budget
P
PATS Protocol Approval and Tracking System
PAL Process Asset Library
PCMMI People Capability Maturity Model Integration
PDA Personal Digital Assistant
PHI Patient Health Information
PHR Personal Health Record
PL/1 Programming Language One
PM Program Manager (can also stand for Program Management)
PMB Performance Measurement Baseline
PMBOK Program Management Body Of Knowledge
PMI Project Management Institute
PMO Program Management Office
PMP Project Management Professional
Q
QA Quality Assurance
QADR Quality Assurance Deficiency Reports
QAP Quality Assurance Plan
QASP Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan
QC Quality Control
QCP Quality Control Plan
QM Quality Management
QMP Quality Management Plan
R
RCC Regulatory Compliance Center
RFQ Request for Quote
RFP Request for Proposal
ROI Return On Investment
ROV Return on Value
RSC Regulatory Support Center
RUP Rational Unified Process
S
SaaS Software-as-a-Service
SD Software Development
SLA Service Level Agreements
SLO Service Level Objectives
SME Subject Matter Expert
SNOMED Systematized Nomenclature of Human Medicine
SOA Service Oriented Architecture (also Service Oriented Approach)
SOP Standard Operating Procedure
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOW Statement of Work
SQL Structured Query Language
SSO Single Sign On
T
TCP/IP Transport Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TQM Total Quality Management
TRM Technical Reference Model
V
VA Veterans Affairs
W
WAD Work Authorization Documents
WAN Wide-Area Network
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WBT Web Based Training
X
XML Extensible Markup Language