C UNIX Programming Language
C&P Compensation & Pension 07/09/04
C&P Credentialing & Privileging 07/09/04
C&V Construction and Evaluation A case management and tracking system that manages
construction monitoring and property valuation actives.
06/27/07
C+ C, a general-purpose programming language 07/09/04
C31 Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
C3PO Chief, Policy, Planning and Performance Office 07/09/04
CA Certificate Authority 07/09/04
CA Commercial Activities
CAAC Civilian Agency Acquisition Council
CAAS Contract Advisory and Assistance Services
CAAT Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing 07/09/04
CAB Compliance Advisory Board 06/06/07
CAC Clinical Application Coordinator 06/06/07
CAC Cost Adjusted Charges Charges obtained from hospital bills or discharge data
are frequently higher than actual costs. One can adjust
the charges by multiplying reported charges by a
department-level cost-to-charge ratio. We refer to the
adjusted charges as cost-adjusted charges (CAC).
CAD Coronary Artery Disease 07/09/04
CAD/CAM Computer Assisted Design/Computer Assisted
CAFC Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
CAIS Computer Automated Information System 07/09/04
CALM Centralized Accounting for Local Management This is the VA's on line, real time computer oriented
accounting system.
06/27/07
CALS Computer-aided Acquisition & Logistics System
(formerly Prosthetics Distribution Center)
CANCOR Cancer Care and Outcomes Research and Surveillance
Consortium
06/06/07
CAO Chief Administrative Officer 07/09/04
CAP Capital Asset Plan 07/09/04
CAP College of American Pathologists 07/09/04
CAP Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program Office
CAPA Corrective and Preventative Action 07/09/04
CAPER Compensation And Pension Evaluation Redesign 07/09/04
CAPOC Computer Assisted Practice of Cardiology (DoD) 07/09/04
CAPPS Computer Assisted Payments Processing System 07/09/04
CAPRI Compensation and Pension Records Interchange 07/09/04
CAR Defense Acquisition Regulation
CARES Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services National initiative to ensure its health care system
meets the needs of veterans today and in the future
06/20/07
CARES
CHAMPUS
Administrative, Reporting, and
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CARF Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation
Facilities
A private not-for-profit organization that sets quality
standards, evaluates quality of services, and accredits
rehabilitation facilities.
06/27/07
CARG Clinical Application Requirements Group 07/09/04
CAROLS Centralized Accounts Receivable On-Line System 07/09/04
CARP Consolidated Accommodations Acquisition Program
Information System
CARS Centralized Accounts Receivable 07/09/04
CAS Content Access Service (formerly Clinical Observation
Access Service)
07/09/04
CAS Cost Accounting Standards
CASB Cost Accounting Standards Board
CASE Computer Assisted Software Engineering 07/09/04
CAT
Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT Scan, Radiology
Imaging)
CAT Computer Audio Teleconferencing With CAT training, faculty and participants at sites
remote from one another dial into an audio bridge over
conventional phones. Thus, the persons may interact
with each other, and can be logged on to the same
computer for instruction.
06/27/07
CAT Computerized Aril Topography 07/09/04
CAT Computerized Axial Tomography 07/09/04
CATI Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview 07/09/04
CAVC Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
CBA Clinical Business Area 07/09/04
CBC Community Based Clinic 07/09/04
CBC Construction Battalion Center
CBD Chief Benefits Director 07/09/04
CBD Commerce Business Daily
CBI Compliance and Business Integrity 07/09/04
CBO Central Business Office 07/09/04
CBO Congressional Budget Office 07/09/04
CBOC
Community Based Outpatient Clinic; A facility
generally providing access to outpatient health care
needs.
An outpatient clinic in an outlying community. The clinic
is part of a larger Veterans Administration Hospital but
due to the physical distance many more veterans may
be better served by having serves closer to their
homes.
07/09/04
CBRF Community Based Residential Facility 07/09/04
CBSE Component Based Software Engineering 07/09/04
CCA Clinger-Cohen Act The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-106)
assigns the Chief Information Officer (CIO) with the
responsibility to develop, maintain and facilitate the
implementation of an enterprise architecture.
06/20/07
CCB Change Control Board 07/09/04
CCC Clinical Coordinating Center 07/09/04
CCC Cost Containment Center 07/09/04
CCC Central Call Center
CCDOR Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research 06/06/07
CCDR Contract Cost Data Report Regulation Supplement
CCHT Care Coordination/Home Telehealth 10/02/08
CCLR Claims Collection Litigation Report
CCO Community Collaboration Office 07/09/04
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CCOW Clinical Context Object Workgroup A context management standard owned by HL7 used to
coordinate access across multiple [workstation client]
applications.
06/27/07
CCPC Consolidated Co-payment Processing Center 07/09/04
CCQAS Centralized Credentials and Quality Assurance System 07/09/04
CCRM Care Coordination Resource Management 06/06/07
CCS Clinical Classifications Software CCS is a tool for clustering patient diagnoses and
procedures into clinically meaningful categories. This
software was developed by the Agency for Healthcare
Quality and Research [link:
http://www.hcupus.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccs/ccs.jsp]
.
CD ROM Compact Disk Read-Only Memory 07/09/04
CDA Clinical Document Architecture A document markup standard that specifies the
structure and semantics of "clinical documents" for the
purpose of exchange.
06/20/07
CDAs Cost Distribution Accounts The VA Cost Distribution Report includes patient care
departments such as medicine, admitting screen, or
ambulatory surgery. It also includes indirect
departments such as building management.
Expenditures for these departments are listed in cost
distribution accounts (CDAs)
CDC Centers for Disease Control 07/09/04
CDCI Corporate Data Center COOP Initiative 07/09/04
CDCP Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDD Central Data Dictionary
CDI Chronic Disease Index 07/09/04
CDL Central Dental Lab 07/09/04
CDMRP Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs 07/12/07
CDQR Clinical Data Quality Review 07/09/04
CDR Clinical Data Repository (now: Health Data Repository
HDR)
06/20/07
CDR Cost Distribution Report The CDR contains estimates of the costs expended by
each patient care department in a VA medical center.
Costs are distributed into Cost Distribution Accounts
07/09/04
CDRL Contract Data Requirements List
CD-ROM Compact Disk Read-Only Memory 07/09/04
CDS Clinical Data Service 06/06/07
CDSS Clinical Decision Support System 07/09/04
CDW Corporate Data Warehouse 07/09/04
CE Continuing Education 07/09/04
CEB Clinical Executive Board 06/06/07
CEC Continuing Education Center 07/09/04
CEHIST Center for Evaluation of Healthcare Information
Systems & Technology
07/09/04
CEIEBP Center of Excellence on Implementing Evidence-Based
Practice
06/06/07
CEIP CHCS Engineering Improvement Program
CEIS Corporate Executive Information System 07/09/04
CEMHOR Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research 06/06/07
CEN Annual Patient Census 07/09/04
CEN European Committee for Standardization (Committee
European de Normalization)
07/09/04
CEO Chief Executive Officer 07/09/04
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CEOB CEOB CHAMPUS Explanation of Benefits
CEOB
CHAMPUS
Explanation of Benefits
CEOC CEOC CHAMPUS Explanation of Check
CEOC
CHAMPUS
Explanation of Check
CF Conversion Factor
CFD Corporate Franchise Data Center (Now: Austin
Information Technology Center AITC)
08/04/08
C-FILE
Claims File or Claims Folder, the materials and
evidence gathered about you and your claim
CFO Chief Financial Officer 07/09/04
CFO Chief Financial Officer DIDS Defense Integrated Data
System
CFP Clinical Financial Planner 07/09/04
CFR Code of Federal Regulations The Secretary's rules and regulations are contained in
Title 38 of the Code of Federal Regulations (38 CFR).
06/27/07
CG CG Comptroller General
CGI Computer Graphics Interface
CHALENG Community Homelessness Assessment Local Education
and Networking Groups
07/09/04
CHAMPUS Civilian Health & Medical Program of the Uniformed
Services
07/09/04
CHAMPVA Civilian Health & Medical Program of the Department
of Veterans Affairs
Medical benefits program through which the VA
provides treatment in a VA facility or helps pay for
medical care obtained from civilian sources for eligible
dependents and survivors of veterans.
06/27/07
CHAS Contract for Advisory and Assistance Services
CHCBP Continuing Health Care Benefits Program
CHCE Center for Health Care Evaluation 06/06/07
CHCM Comprehensive Health Care Management
CHCS Composite Health Care System (DoD) An automated information system supporting the
administration and delivery of health care at
Department of Defense (DoD) Medical Treatment
Facilities (MTF) throughout the world.
06/27/07
CHCS-VISTA
DSI
Composite Health Care System -VistA - Data Sharing
Interface (now: BHIE)
06/20/07
CHDR Clinical Data Repository/Health Data Repository
(Interoperability Project)
07/09/04
CHEC Community Health Education Center 07/09/04
CHEP Cooperative Health Education Program 07/09/04
CHERP Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion 06/06/07
CHF Congestive Heart Failure 07/09/04
CHI Consolidated Health Informatics 07/09/04
CHIACC Creating HealtheVet Informatics Applications for
Collaborative Care
06/06/07
CHIM Center for Healthcare Information Management 07/09/04
CHIME College of Healthcare Information Management
Executives
07/09/04
CHIN Community Health Information Network 07/09/04
CHIO Chief Health Informatics Officer Represents VA on regional, national and international
informatics and manages high interest clinical programs
e.g.,My HealtheVet and Bar Code Resource.
01/15/09
CHIP Coalition for Health Information Policy 07/20/07
CHIPS Consumer Health Information & Performance Set An initiative to develop a VISN wide information system
for decision support, performance measuring and
population studies.
06/25/07
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CHIR Consortium for Healthcare Informatics Research 02/07/08
CHIS Center for Healthcare Information Security 07/09/04
CHISS Common Health Information Security Service 07/09/04
CHKM Center for Healthcare Knowledge Management 06/06/07
CHQOER Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic
Research
07/09/04
CHR Consolidated Health Record 06/06/07
CHR Consolidated Health Record A CHR is created and maintained for every individual
that is treated or assessed within a VA Medical Center.
It is a medical record that documents the diagnosis and
treatment of the patient, and an administrative record.
10/02/08
CHSRPC Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care 06/06/07
CI Commercial Integrator 07/09/04
CICA Competition In Contracting Act
CICSP Continuous Improvement In Cardiac Surgery Program 07/09/04
CIDC Clinical Indicators Data Capture Software intended to capture patient treatment data in
order to increase revenue from third-party payers and
to provide electronic inputs for the forthcoming Patient
Financial Services System (PFSS)-a Congressionally
mandated project.
06/25/07
CIDD Common Intrusion Detection Director 07/09/04
CIDER Center for Information Dissemination and Education
Resources
06/06/07
CIO Chief Information Officer 07/09/04
CIOFO Chief Information Office Field Office 07/09/04
CIONTEO Chief Information Office National Training and
Education Office
07/09/04
CIP Capital Investment Proposal 07/09/04
CIR Corporate Information Repository 07/09/04
CIRC Central Incident Response Capability 07/09/04
CIRN Clinical Information Resources Network 07/09/04
CIRN-CR CIRN-Clinical Repository 07/09/04
CIRN-CR Clinical Information Resources Network Clinical
Repository
07/09/04
CIS Clinical Information System 07/09/04
CISSP Certified Information System Security Professional 07/09/04
CITI CHAMPVA In-house Treatment Initiative 07/09/04
CITI Collaborative IRB Training Initiative 07/09/04
CITPO Clinical Information Technology Program Office 07/09/04
CKD Chronic Kidney Disease 06/06/07
CLA Customer License Agreement 07/09/04
CLC Community Living Center (formerly: NHCU) Provides resident-centered care. The name change
demonstrates the commitment of VA to accommodate
the age-specific needs of the new cohort of OEF/OIF
veterans seeking long or short term care.
01/16/09
CLIA Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment 07/09/04
CLIN Contract Line Item Number
CLS Clinical Lexicon Consortium Provides psychiatric consultations and education to nonpsychiatrist
physicians, assists medical and surgical
teams, and refers appropriate patients to Mental
Health.
06/20/07
CM Case Management or Case Manager (replaced by DAR
and the FAR)
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CMAC CHAMPUS Maximum Allowable Charges 07/09/04
CMC Consolidated Medical Center 07/09/04
CMC3 Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care
(formerly: Midwest Center for Health Services and
Policy Research MCHSPR)
Conducts high quality research that will translate into
improved patient and health outcomes for veterans and
the nation.
06/20/07
CMCCC Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care
(CMC3) (formerly MCHSPR)
Formerly MCHSPR 02/19/07
CMCHS Civilian Military Contingency Hospital System 07/09/04
CMD Chief Medical Director 07/09/04
CMIT Current Medical Information and Terminology 07/09/04
CMOP Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy This software is fed mail out prescription data, then it
interfaces with highly automated prescription
dispensing equipment.
06/27/07
CMOR CIRN Master of Record 07/09/04
CMR Consolidated Memorandum of Receipt The facility’s non-expendable property inventory. 06/25/07
CMS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (previously
HCFA)
CMS is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. CMS is responsible for the
Medicare program and works with the States to run
Medicaid [link: http://www.cms.gov].
07/09/04
CMSA Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area 07/09/04
CMT Centralized Means Test 07/09/04
CNA Clinical Nurse Administrator 07/09/04
CNE Certified Network Engineer 07/09/04
CNH Community Nursing Home 07/09/04
CNH Contract Nursing Home 07/20/07
CNHC Community Nursing Home Care 07/09/04
CNO Chief Network Officer 07/09/04
CO Central Office 07/09/04
CO Contracting Officer or Central Office Department
COACH Center on Advice & Compliance Help The person serving as the supervisor of a work team.
Rather than giving team members instruction as would
a traditional supervisor, the coach provides guidance
and direction to the team in its decision-making
process.
06/27/07
COAS Clinical Observation Access Control An interface specification in IDL defining a common
access mechanism for the retrieval of information
content within a distributed infrastructure.
06/27/07
COB COB Coordination of Benefits
COBRA Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1985
Ensures medical coverage for individuals who are
temporarily no longer covered under the umbrella of
medical insurance coverage.
06/25/07
COC Continuity of Care 06/06/07
COC Certificate of Competency
COCB Contracting Officer's Certification Board
COCO Contractor-Owned/Contractoroperated
COCP Contracting Officer's Certification Program
CODSIA Council of Defense and Space Industry Associations
COE HSR&D Centers of Excellence 06/06/07
COG Clinical Oversight Group 07/09/04
COG Continuity of Government The principle of establishing defined procedures that
allow a government to continue its essential operations
in case of a nuclear war or other catastrophic event.
06/27/07
COJ Clinic of Jurisdiction 07/09/04
COLA Cost-0f-Living Adjustment Annual raise of cost of living 07/17/08
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COLMR Center for Organization, Leadership, and Management
Research
06/06/07
Columbia HCA Columbia Health Care Corporation 07/09/04
COM+ Component Object Model + 07/09/04
CONOPS Concept of Operations 07/09/04
COO Chief Operations Officer 07/09/04
COOP Continuity of Operations 07/09/04
COPAFS Council of Professional Associations on Federal
Statistics
07/09/04
COPD Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD is comprised primarily of two related diseases:
chronic bronchitis and emphysema. In both diseases,
the flow of air through the airways and out of the lungs
is obstructed. The condition is permanent and worsens
over time.
COR Copy of Record 07/09/04
COR Contracting Officer's Representative
CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture 07/09/04
CORBA/OMA Common Object Request Broker Architecture/Object
Management Architecture
07/09/04
COROA Center for Outcomes Research in Older Adults 06/06/07
COS Chief of Staff 07/09/04
COTH Council of Teaching Hospitals 07/09/04
COTR Contracting Officer's Technical Representative 07/09/04
COTR/COR Contracting Officers Technical Representative
COTS Commercial Off The Shelf Commercially available applications sold by vendors
through public catalogue listings. COTS software is not
intended to be customized or enhanced.
06/27/07
COTS Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (applications) 07/09/04
COVERS Control of Veterans Records System
COVES Cost and Value Tradeoffs 06/06/07
CPA Cooperative Project Assurance 07/09/04
CPAF Cost-Plus-Award-Fee (contract)
CPC Center for Palliative Care 06/06/07
CPCM Certified Professional Contract Manager
CPEP Compensation and Pension Examination Project 07/09/04
CPFF Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (contract)
CPGS clinical practice guidelines Methods to improve care processes within VA and DoD
medical facilities.
05/24/07
CPHB Center for Patient Healthcare Behavior 06/06/07
CPI Consumer Price Index The CPI measures the price paid by consumers for a
fixed group of goods and services. Changes in the CPI
over time constitute a common measure of inflation.
CPIC Capital Planning and Investment Control A decision-making process for ensuring that IT
investments integrate strategic planning, budgeting,
procurement, and the management of IT in support of
agency missions and business needs.
06/27/07
CPIF Cost-Plus-Incentive-Fee (contract)
CPIRI CPIRI CHAMPUS Price Inflation Reimbursement Index
CPIRI
CHAMPUS
Price Inflation Reimbursement Index
CPM Critical Path Method Obtains information and data to identify, manage, and
resolve project problems. Minimizes legal disputes and
establishes realistic construction project duration(s).
06/20/07
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CPMOR Center for Practice Management & Outcomes Research 06/06/07
CPOE Computerized Physician Order Entry 07/09/04
CPR Computerized Patient Record 07/09/04
CPR Cost Performance Report 3rd Edition, Revised
CPRI Computer-Based Patient Record Institute 07/09/04
CPRI-HOST Computerized Patient Record Institute-Healthcare
Open Systems and Trials
07/09/04
CPRS Computerized Patient Record System The people, data, rules and procedures, processing and
storage devices, and communication and support
facilities that provide and maintain computer-based
patient record information.
06/27/07
CPS Claims Processing System Computer system being developed by VBA to identify
and obtain the evidence required to make a decision on
a disability claim from a veteran.
06/27/07
CPSC Cardiac Pacemaker Surveillance Center 07/09/04
CPSR Contract Procurement System Review
CPT Common Procedure Terminology A coding system primarily used to encode outpatient
procedures for billing and reimbursement purposes.
06/27/07
CPT Current Procedural Terminology CPT codes are five-digit numbers used to represent the
universe of medical and psychiatric services given to
patients. They are revised each year to reflect advances
in medical technology. The 2002 revision contained
8,107 codes and descriptors. VA uses CPT codes to
identify ambulatory care procedures only; ICD-9 codes
are used for inpatient procedures.
CPU Central Processing Unit 07/09/04
CPU Central Processing Unit DTF Dental Treatment
Facilities
CQI Continuous Quality Improvement A methodology intent on meeting or exceeding
customer requirements by continuous improvement and
innovation in products, processes, and services.
06/27/07
CQIR Center for Quality Improvement Research 06/06/07
CRADA Collaborative Research and Development Agreements 07/09/04
CRADO Chief Research & Development Officer 07/09/04
CRAG Contractor Risk Assessment Guide
CRC CHAMPUS Records Center
CRCOE Clinical Research Centers of Excellence 06/06/07
CRI CRI CHAMPUS Reform Initiative
CRI CHAMPUS Reform Initiative
CRIISP Center for Research in the Implementation of
Innovative Strategies in Practice
06/06/07
CRIS CRIS CHAMPUS Regional Intermediary System
CRIS
CHAMPUS
Regional Intermediary System
CRSP Centralized Regional Scheduling Program 07/09/04
CRT Crisis Response Team 07/09/04
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CRUD Create, Read, Update, and Delete 06/06/07
CS Cost Sharing 9type of contract)
CSA Common Services Architecture 07/09/04
CSC Contract Service Center
CSCSC Cost/Schedule Control System Criteria
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CSE Customer Service Environment 07/09/04
CSHPB Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior 06/06/07
CSI Congressional Special Interest Medical Research
Programs
Encompasses breast, prostate, and ovarian cancers,
neurofibromatosis, military health, and other specified
areas.
07/12/07
CSO Cyber Security Office 07/09/04
CSP Cooperative Studies Program 06/06/07
CSPCC Cooperative Studies Program Coordination Center 07/09/04
CSR Customer Service Representative
CSR&D Clinical Science Research and Development 06/13/07
CSRA Civil Service Reform Act 07/09/04
CSSR Cost /Schedule Status Report
CSWRI Center for the Study of War Related Injuries 06/13/07
CTF Chloracne Task Force 07/09/04
CTI Computer/Telephone Integration 07/09/04
CTO Chief Technology Officer 06/13/07
CUE Clear and Unmistakable Evidence
CVO Credential Verification Organization
CWAD Crisis Notes, Warning Notes, Allergies and Directives 07/09/04
CWM Common Warehouse Meta-model An OMG standard specification for exchanging data
warehouse and business intelligence metadata between
tools/products.
06/27/07
CWS Cold Weather Syndrome Breathing problems caused later in life by military
personnel who served in severe cold weather climates
for long durations of time.
08/15/05
CWT/IT Compensated Work Therapy/Incentive Therapy 07/09/04
D&F Determination Findings
D&PPM Drug & Pharmaceutical Products Management This module allows each facility to collect and print
pharmacy statistics. It can provide information on
facility, regional, and national product use on monthly,
quarterly, and annual intervals.
06/27/07
D/SIDDOMSII D/SIDDOMSII Defense Medical Information
System/Systems
DAA Designated Accrediting Authority 07/09/04
DAC Defense Acquisition Circular (formerly DPC)
DACA Distributed Access Control and Authorization 07/09/04
DAR Data Architecture Repository Allows users to utilize the repository for registering
Data Architecture artifacts, establishing relationships,
querying, conducting analyses on data, reporting status
/ statistics and creating visual expressions.
06/28/07
DAR Defense Acquisition Regulation
DARC Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council
DAS Data Architecture Service Its purpose is to inform the EAC of the ongoing
establishment of a Data Architecture Service in the
Office of Enterprise Architecture Management.
06/25/07
DAS Dental Activity System 07/09/04
DAS Deputy Assistant Secretary 07/09/04
DASD Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
DASD Direct Access Storage Device
DASHO Designated Agency Safety and Health Official 07/09/04
DAV Disabled American Veterans 07/09/04
DAWIA Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act
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DBA Data Base Administrator In VistA, the person who monitors name spacing
conventions and other procedures that enable various
VistA packages to coexist within an integrated database
system.
06/27/07
DBIA Database Integration Agreement The DBA maintains a list of DBIA's or mutual
agreements between package developers allowing the
use of integral entry points or other package-specific
features that are not available to the general
programming public.
06/27/07
DBIC Data Base Integration Committee Within the purview of the DBA, the committee
maintains a list of DBIC-approved callable entry points
and publishes the list on FORUM for reference by
application programmers and verifiers.
06/27/07
DBMS Data Base Management System A system used to store, retrieve, and manipulate data
in an organized (modeled) fashion.
06/27/07
DBMS Data Base Management System
DBSS Defense Blood Standard System 07/09/04
DCA Delayed Continuing Accreditation 07/09/04
DCAA Defense Contract Audit Agency
DCAAM Defense Contract Audit Agency Audit Manual
DCAI Defense Contract Audit Institute
DCAS Defense Contract Administration Service
DCASR Defense Contract Administration Service Region
DCC Data Consent Committee (HIPAA abbreviation) 07/09/04
DCE Distributed Computing Environment Provides security services to protect and control access
to data, name services that make it easy to find
distributed resources, and a highly scalable model for
organizing widely scattered users, services, and data.
06/27/07
DCHV Domiciliary Care for Homeless Veterans 07/09/04
DCIO Deputy Chief Information Officer 06/13/07
DCISMA Defense Contract Administration Service Area
DCkSMO Defense Contract Administration Service Office
DCM Department Cost Manager 07/09/04
DCMA Defense Contract Management Area
DCMAO Defense Contract Management Area Operations
DCMC Defense Contract Management Command a
department-wide centralized data base
DCMD Defense Contract Management District
DCN Defense Logistics Agency Corporate Network
DCRB Design Change Review Board 07/09/04
DD Department of Defense (form no's)
DD 1149 Order for Supplies and Services
DD 1411 Certified Cost and Pricing Data
DD 1412 Catalog Pricing Exemption Regulation
DD 1423 Contract Data Requirements List
DD 1664 Data Item Description
DD 254 Contract Security Specification
DD-214
A discharge document providing confirmation of
military service and many details of service.
DDC Denver Distribution Center 07/09/04
DDCSS Drug Dependence Clinical Support System 07/09/04
DEA Drug Enforcement Agency 07/09/04
DEARS Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation
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DEARS Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
DEC Dental Education Center 07/09/04
DECC Defense Enterprise Computing Center 07/09/04
DEERS Defense Enrollment Eligibility System 07/09/04
DEMPS Disaster Emergency Medical Personnel System 07/09/04
DES Digital Encryption Standard Allows only hardware implementations of the U.S.
Government official data encryption algorithm.
06/27/07
DESC Defense Electronic Supply Center
DFC Discharge From Clinic 07/09/04
DHCP Decentralized Hospital Computer Program A hospital information system developed by the
Veterans Health Administration starting in 1977.
06/27/07
DHHS Department of Health and Human Services 07/09/04
DIAS Defense Finance Accounting System
DIB Data Integrity Board 07/09/04
DIC Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate paid to the spouse and/or children surviving the
death of a veteran
06/20/07
DICOM Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine 07/09/04
DIDS DIDS Defense Integrated Data System
DIMHRS Defense Integrated Military Health Resource System 07/09/04
DIMHRS Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System Correction to listed acronym, Department of Defense
only recognizes the above listed breakout for the
DIMHRS acronym.
06/27/07
DIPEC Defense Industrial Plant Equipment Center
DISA Defense Information Systems Administration 07/09/04
DISC Defense Logistics Support Center
DISH Defense Information Systems Agency
DIT Development Integration Testing 07/09/04
DLA Defense Logistics Agency
DMC Debt Management Center Responsible for generating reports concerning
overpayments created and recovered as a result of
award or stop actions processed by regional offices.
06/27/07
DMDC Defense Manpower Data Center Maintains the largest archive of personnel, manpower,
training, and financial data in the Department of
Defense.
07/12/07
DME Development/Maintenance/Enhance ment 07/09/04
DME Durable Medical Equipment
DMIM Defense Medical Information Management 07/09/04
DMLIS Defense Medical Logistics Information System
DMLSS Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support 07/09/04
DMMS Decentralized Medical Management System 07/09/04
DMMS Decision Medical Management System 07/09/04
DMMSC Defense Medical Systems Support Center 07/09/04
DMO Directives Management Officer 07/09/04
DMPA Defense Medical Programs Activity
DMRIS Defense Medical Regulating Information System 07/09/04
DMSSC Defense Medical Systems Support Center 07/09/04
DNR Do Not Resuscitate 07/09/04
DNS Domain Name Server 07/09/04
DO Delivery Order
DO Delivery Order LOCO Government Owned, Contractor
Operated
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DoD Department of Defense The federal agency responsible for the management of
members of the United States Armed Forces, to include
the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard.
06/27/07
DoDHA Department of Defense Health Affairs
DOEHDR Defense Occupational Exposure Health Data
Repository
06/13/07
DOHRS Defense Occupational Health Readiness System 07/12/07
DOJ Department of Justice
DOL Department of Labor A federal agency which is the funding source for the
Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS).
06/27/07
DOM Domiciliary (under management of medical center) 07/09/04
DOMP Delivery Order Management Plan 07/09/04
DORS Department Of Rehabilitation Service 07/09/04
DPC Drug Program Coordinator 07/09/04
DPDB Division of Practitioner Data Banks 07/09/04
DPPB Distribution Population Planning Base 07/09/04
DPSC Defense Personnel Support Center
DQA Division of Quality Assurance 07/09/04
DR Data Repository 06/13/07
DRA Designated Research Area 06/13/07
DRE Designated Research Element 06/13/07
DRG Diagnosis Related Group Patient classification system based upon the patient's
diagnosis or procedure. Each DRG is based upon an
allocation of consumption of resources.
06/27/07
DRG Diagnosis Related Group Diagnostic Related Group The DRG system is an
inpatient classification system based on several factors:
principal diagnosis; secondary diagnosis; surgical
factors; age; sex; and discharge status. Under the
Medicare prospective payment system, hospitals are
paid a set fee for treating patients in a single DRG
category, regardless of the actual cost of care for the
individual.
DRM Dental Record Manager 07/09/04
DRO
Decision Review Officer; The DRO is a senior
individual with authority to review and revise
adjudications made by others.
DRR Division of Research Resources 07/09/04
DRRB Data Request Review Board 06/22/07
DSARC Defense Systems Acquisition Review Council
DSCC Documentation Standards and Conventions Committee 07/09/04
DSCM Data Standardization Configuration Management
(Board)
07/09/04
DSCMB (DoD) Data Standards Configuration Management
Board
07/09/04
D-SIDDOMS II Defense Medical Information Management/Systems
Integration, Design, Development,b Operations, and
Maintenance Services II
07/09/04
DSM Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM-III)
07/09/04
DSM Digital Standard Mumps 07/09/04
DSMB Data Safety Monitoring Boards 06/22/07
DSM-III R Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders
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DSM-III R DSM-III R Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders
DSMO Designated Standard Maintenance Organization
(HIPAA abbreviation)
07/09/04
DSO Decision Support Objects 07/09/04
DSOIRM Designated Senior Official for IRM 07/09/04
DSS Decision Support Service A computer based information system that is designed
with the purpose of improving the processes and
outcomes of human decision making.
06/27/07
DSS Document Storage Systems 07/09/04
DSS Decision Support System The VHA Decision Support System (DSS) is an
automated management information system that tracks
health care utilization (VHA workload) and assigns an
approximate cost to it. Each VA facility has a separate
implementation of DSS. The source of DSS data are the
VISTA systems at each VA facility. On a quarterly basis,
DSS staff at the VA Austin Automation Center extract
data from the DSS systems at each facility. After
creating additional data fields, they create a series of
extracts that cover all VA facilities.
DSS-W Defense Supply Service - Washington
DT&E Development Test and Evaluation 07/09/04
DTC Day Treatment Center 07/09/04
DTD Document Type Definition 07/09/04
DTF DTF Dental Treatment Facilities
DTS Document Tracking System (OCIO controlled
correspondence)
07/09/04
DTV Digital Television 07/09/04
DUA Data Use Agreement 04/15/05
DUR Drug Utilization Review 07/09/04
DUSD(L) Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Logistics)
DUSH Deputy Under Secretary for Health 07/09/04
DUSH A/O Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Administration
and Operations
07/09/04
DUSHOM Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and
Management
06/13/07
DVA Department Veterans Affairs 07/09/04
DVBIC Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center A multi-site medical care, clinical research and
education center that enhances the quality,
appropriateness, timeliness, and cost-effectiveness of
treatment delivered to military and veteran
beneficiaries with TBI.
07/12/07
E&M Evaluation and Management E&M is a set of CPT codes that refer to Evaluation and
Management services.
E/R Entity Relationship 07/09/04
E3R Electronic, Error and Enhancement Report 07/09/04
EA Enterprise Architecture An integrated framework that enables the evolution and
maintenance of existing information technology systems
and guides future technology acquisitions.
06/27/07
EAC Enterprise Architecture Council 07/09/04
EAC Estimate at Completion (cost) (formerly known as
CHAMPVA)
EAP Employee Assistance Program
EB Executive Board 07/09/04
EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code 07/09/04
EBQID Evidence-Based Quality Improvement for Depression 06/13/07
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EC Emerging Care 07/09/04
EC Event Capture 07/09/04
EC Electronic Commerce
EC Electronic Commerce (a.k.a. E-Commerce)
EC CCB Emergency Care Change Control Board 07/09/04
ECAT Electronic Catalog 07/09/04
ECC Extended Care Center 07/09/04
ECF Executive Career Field A Performance Plan measure of Research Compliance
that provides guidance for conducting audits and
reporting audit results to the Office of Research
Oversight (ORO) concerning requirements for informed
consent of human subject research.
12/31/08
ECG Electrocardiograph
ECI Enterprise Communications Initiative 06/27/07
ECI Electronic Commerce Interchange
ECP Engineering Change Proposals 07/09/04
ECSIP Enterprise Cyber Security Infrastructure Project 07/09/04
ED
Erectile Dysfunction; The inability to achieve and
maintain an erection suitable for sexual intercourse.
ED Emergency Department 07/09/04
EDB Enrollment Database 07/09/04
EDD Electronic Data Dictionary 07/09/04
EDI Electronic Data Interchange The inter-organizational, computer- to-computer
exchange of structured information in a standard,
machine-processable format.
06/27/07
EDI/MRA Electronic Data Interchange/Medical Reform Act 07/09/04
EDIS Electronic Data Imaging System
EDM Executive Decision Memorandum 07/09/04
EDMS Electronic Data Management System 07/09/04
EDP Electronic Data Processing 06/13/07
EDR Event Driven Reporting 07/09/04
EDS Electronic Data Systems 07/09/04
EDSS Expanded Disability Status Scales 07/09/04
EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse A data/content repository that contains integrated,
cross- functional, and historical data.
06/27/07
EEG Electroencephalograph
EEO Equal Employment Opportunity Equal opportunity in employment for all persons;
prohibiting discrimination in employment because of
race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or
disability.
06/27/07
EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EES Employee Education System 07/09/04
EFAV Enhanced Failsoft Access for VISTA 07/09/04
EFDA Expanded Function Dental Auxiliaries 07/09/04
EHR Electronic Health Record 07/09/04
EHRA Electronic Health Record Architecture Provides the structure for the formal electronic health
record, and can serve as the evidential record
(assuming that sufficient context and security are
included).
06/27/07
EHRI Electronic Health Records Interoperability 07/09/04
EHRP Electronic Health Records Plan 07/09/04
EIB Enterprise Information Board 07/09/04
EIL Equipment Inventory Listing 07/09/04
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EIN Employer Identification Number 07/09/04
EIS Executive Information System
EKG electrocardiogram 07/09/04
ELISA Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assays 07/09/04
EMC Enterprise Management Committee 07/09/04
EMC Enterprise Management Concept 07/09/04
EMC Electronic Media Claims
EMFSO Engineering Management and Field Support Office 07/09/04
EMI Electromagnetic Interference 07/09/04
EMME Engineering Acquisition Materiel Management &
Equipment
07/09/04
EMPB Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board 07/09/04
EMPI Enterprise Master Patient Index 06/13/07
EMPO Emergency Medical Preparedness Office 07/09/04
EMR Electronic Medical Record 07/09/04
EMRSS Emergency Management and Resource Sharing
Service
07/09/04
EMS Environmental Management Services 12/31/08
EMSHG Emergency Management Strategic Healthcare Group 07/09/04
EMT Executive Management Team 07/09/04
EO Executive Order
EOB Explanation of Benefits 07/09/04
EOC Episode of Care 07/09/04
EOC Explanation of Checks
EOQ Economic order quantity
EP End Product (claims control)
EP Expert Panel Task oriented group created and dissolved as needed
by ARG.
06/27/07
EPA Environmental Protection Agency 07/09/04
EPI Emerging Pathogens Initiative 07/09/04
EPM Enterprise Project Management 07/09/04
EPMS Enterprise Project Management Software 07/09/04
EPPS Evaluation of the Enhanced Prospective Payment
System
07/09/04
EPR Electronic Patient Record 07/09/04
EPRI Electronic Patient Record Interface 07/09/04
EPRP External Peer Review Process This package generates a list of patients for review of
care by an outside review group.
06/27/07
EPTS Existing Prior to Service Suggests Veterans disability was present before they
entered active duty service.
11/17/06
ER Electronic Record 07/09/04
ERB External Review Board 06/13/07
ERIC Education Research Information Center 07/09/04
ERMIS External Review Management Information System This system tracks reports, action plans, and
recommendations from the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO),
Office of Inspector.
06/27/07
ERT Enterprise Reference Terminology 07/09/04
ESA Enterprise Systems Architecture 06/22/07
ESG Environmental Support Group 07/09/04
ESI The name of a company 07/09/04
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mean! Here are some commonly used terms and acronyms in Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs that may be unfamiliar to you.
ESM Enterprise Systems Management This office is part of the Office of Health Information
(OHI). Its purpose is to work collaboratively with other
OI components and VHA Program Offices to develop,
implement and monitor the comprehensive portfolios of
IT systems.
01/16/09
ESM Enterprise Systems Manager 06/22/07
ESMC Enterprise System Management Committee 07/09/04
ESMO Enterprise Systems Management Office Works collaboratively with other OHI components and
VHA Program Offices to develop requirements to
implement and monitor the comprehensive portfolios of
IT systems used by VHA.
01/15/09
ESN Electronic Security Number 04/18/08
ESP Evidence-Based Synthesis Project Provides timely and accurate syntheses of targeted
health care topics of particular importance to VA
managers and policymakers—and to disseminate these
reports throughout VA
06/27/07
ESS Enterprise Support Solution 07/09/04
ETA Enhanced Time and Attendance System 07/09/04
ETC Education and Training Center 07/09/04
ETCS Electronic Transactions and Code Sets 07/09/04
ETMR Electronic Theater Medical Record 07/09/04
ETS Enterprise Tactical Support 07/09/04
EUCOM European Command
EVA Electronic VA 07/09/04
EVS Enterprise VistA Support 06/13/07
EWOS European Workshop on Open Systems
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