G&4 General and Administrative (cost)
G&A G&A General and Administrative (cost) Integration,
Design, Development, Operations
G2B Government to Business 07/09/04
G2C Government to Consumer 07/09/04
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GAAS Generally Accepted Auditing Standards
GAF Global Assessment of Functioning 07/09/04
GAGAS Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards
GAO General Accounting Office An organization that reviews and evaluates federal
programs for Congress.
06/27/07
GASB Government Accounting Standards Board
GBL GBL Government Bill of Lading
GC General Council 07/09/04
GCP Good Clinical Practice 07/09/04
GCPR Government Computer-Based Patient Record A collaborative partnership (VA, DoD, IHS) to improve
public and individual health status.
06/27/07
GCPR or G-CPR Government-Computer-based Patient Record (See
FHIE)
07/09/04
GCS Government Consulting Services 07/09/04
GEC Geriatrics and Extended Care 06/22/07
GEHR Good Electronic Health Record A major part of the work of the open EHR Foundation, is
an evolving electronic health record architecture
designed to be comprehensive, portable and medicolegally
robust.
06/20/07
GERD Gastroesophogeal Reflex Disease Results from a greater than normal degree of reflux of
acid contents of the stomach upward through the
esophagogastric sphincter, which can lead to
inflammation of the esophagus (reflux esophagitis).
06/25/07
GETS Government Emergency Telecommunications Service 07/09/04
GEU Geriatric Evaluation Unit 07/09/04
GFE Government Furnished Equipment 07/09/04
GFE/GFI Government Furnished Equipment/Information 07/09/04
GFI Government Furnished Information 07/09/04
GFP Government Furnished Property
GGAC Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee 07/09/04
GHC Group Health Cooperative GHC is a not-for-profit health maintenance organization
(HMO). It is a staff-model HMO, meaning that its
physicians are salaried employees.
GIAT Government Installation Acceptance Test 07/09/04
GIDEP Government-Industry Data Exchange Program
GIGO garbage in garbage out 07/09/04
GILS Government Information Locator System 07/09/04
GIP Generic Inventory Package An automated supply accounting system. 06/20/07
GIS Generic Interface System 07/09/04
GISRA Government Information Security Reform Act 07/09/04
GITSS Global Information Technology Support Services 06/22/07
GLIF Guideline Interchange Format 07/09/04
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GMC General Medical Clinic 07/09/04
GMDN Global Medical Device Nomenclature 06/13/07
GMT Geographic Means Test 07/09/04
GOCO Government-Owned/Contractor-Operated
GOSIP Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile The U.S. government's OSI protocols that address
communication and inter-operation of computer
systems across government agencies.
06/20/07
GOT Government-Off-The-Shelf 07/09/04
GOTS Government Off The Shelf Refers to items produced for the Government that are
available for general use within Government programs
that were developed by or for the Government, passed
acceptance testing, and be operating under government
control.
06/20/07
GPEA Government Paperwork Elimination Act Agencies must generally provide for the optional use
and acceptance of electronic documents and signatures,
and electronic record keeping where practicable, by
October 2003.
06/20/07
GPMRC Global Patient Movement Requirements Center 07/09/04
GPO Geographic Provider Organization 07/09/04
GPO Government Printing Office
GPRA Government Performance & Results Act To provide for the establishment of strategic planning
and performance measurement in the Federal
Government, and for other purposes.
06/20/07
GRECC Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center 07/09/04
GRM Government Reference Information Model 07/09/04
GRM Government Furnished Material
GSA General Services Administration 07/09/04
GSA Government Services Administration
G-SIG Government Special Interest Group 07/09/04
GUI Graphic User Interface 07/09/04
GUIDE Policy Guidance and Development Center 06/13/07
GWOT Global War on Terrorism Campaign which includes various military, political, and
legal actions to curb the spread of terrorism.
09/17/07
H&PE History and Physical Examination 07/09/04
H)IQ Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (contract)
HA/OA HA/OA Health Affairs/Office Automation
HA/OQ Health Affairs/Office Automation
HAC Health Administration Center 07/09/04
HAD Health Administration Service (Formerly MAS) 06/13/07
HAIG Healthcare Analysis Information Group 06/13/07
HANDS Hand-On Automated Nursing Data System An electronic syste for care planning that maintains
stadardization of documentation and communication of
the plan of care, while supporting the interdisciplinary
team in monitoring patient problems, interventions and
progress towards outcomes.
08/05/08
HAS Health Administration Services 07/09/04
HAZDAT Hazardous Substance Release and Health Effects
Database
A database of information on the release of hazardous
substances from Superfund sites or from emergency
events, and on the effects of hazardous substances on
the health of human populations.
07/12/07
HB&P Health Budget and Programs Healthcare Organizations
HBA Health Benefits Advisor
HBHC Hospital Based Home Care is now HBHC 07/09/04
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HBOC (One of the largest vendors of hospital system
information software)
07/09/04
HBPC Home Based Primary Care 07/09/04
HCC Health Care Center
HCF Health Care Finder K Contract (symbol for)
HCFA Health Care Financing Administration As of July 1, 2001, HCFA was renamed the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services. See the entry for CMS.
07/09/04
HCFA Health Care Financing Administration KO Contracting
Officer (also referred to as CO)
HCFE Health Care Financing & Economics Studies health care costs, cost effectiveness of care and
methods of financing health services delivery.
12/17/04
HCHV Health Care for Homeless Veterans 07/09/04
HCIL Health Care Information Line KR Contractor
HC-ISAC HealthCare Information Sharing and Analysis Center 07/09/04
HCMI Homeless Chronically Mentally Ill 07/09/04
HCN Health Care Network
HCP Health Care Provider LA Lead Agent
HCPCS Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System 06/13/07
HCPR Health Care Provider Record
HCQCUS Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization
Studies
06/13/07
HCRIS Healthcare Cost Report Information System 06/13/07
HCS Health Care System
HCSCLA Health Care Studies and Clinical Investigation Activity
LOE Level of Effort
HCSDRO Health Care Staff Development and Retention Office 07/09/04
HCSPO Health Care Systems Program Office, DMSSC
(contracting method where hours are purchased)
HCSR Health Care Service Record LOS Length of Stay
HCSSA Health Care Systems Support Activity
HCUP Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project HCUP is a family of healthcare databases and related
software. HCUP databases bring together the data
collection efforts of state data organizations, hospital
associations, private data organizations, and the federal
government to create a national information resource of
patient-level healthcare data.
06/13/07
HDD Health Data Dictionary 06/22/07
HDI Health Data Informatics This office is VHA's subject matter and policy expert
regarding data contained in veterans' electronic health
records and in national data systems
01/15/09
HDR Health Data Repository (formerly: Clinical Data
Repository CDR)
A repository of clinical information normally residing on
one or more independent platforms for use by clinicians
and other personnel in support of patient- centric care.
06/20/07
HDS Health Data Systems 06/22/07
HEA Health Enterprise Architecture 06/22/07
HEAR Health Evaluation and Assessment of Risk
HEC Health Eligibility Center 07/09/04
HEDIS Health Plan and Employer Data and Information Set 07/09/04
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HERC Health Economics Resource Center A national center that assists VA researchers in
assessing the cost-effectiveness of medical care,
evaluating the efficiency of VA programs and providers,
and conducting high-quality health economics research.
12/02/04
HFMEA Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Identifies and improves steps in a process ensuring a
safe and clinically desirable outcome. A systematic
approach to identify and prevent product and process
problems before they occur.
06/20/07
HFPA Health Facilities Planning Agency
HHA Home Health Agency 05/30/07
HHAS Headquarters Health Administration Services 07/09/04
HHC Home Health Care
HHS Health and Human Services 07/09/04
HHS Department of Health and Human Services
HHSC Healthcare Information Integration Support Committee
HIA Health Information Architecture A comprehensive and integrated framework designed to
facilitate achievement of the Administration's business
objectives that also provides the context for making
effective decisions regarding information resources
throughout VHA.
06/25/07
HIAA Health Insurance Association of America
HILS Heterogeneous Information Locator Service An interface specification addressing the location of
information from across potentially heterogeneous
sources and returning those locations so that calling
applications can request their desired information.
06/25/07
HIM Health Information Management 07/09/04
HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society
07/09/04
HINN Hospital Issued Notices on Non-Coverage
HINQ Hospital Inquiry 07/09/04
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996
A law passed by Congress in 1996 that requires the
Department of Health and Human Services to
implement regulations that will require the use of
specific standards related to health care claims, code
sets, identifiersand security.
06/20/07
HIPDB Health Integrity and Protection Data Bank Helps to counter fraud and abuse in health insurance
and health care delivery. A flagging system to alert
users that a more comprehensive review of a
practitioner’s, provider’s, or supplier’s past actions may
be prudent.
06/20/07
HIRS Health Information Resources Service 07/09/04
HIS Hospital Information System 07/09/04
HIS Indian Health Service 07/09/04
HIS Indian Health Service or Integrated Hospital System
HISB Healthcare Informatics Standards Board 07/09/04
HISBA Health Information Standards Board 07/09/04
HISEB Health Information Systems Executive Board 06/13/07
HISPP Health Care Informatics Standards Planning Panel 07/09/04
HISS Health Information Security Service 07/09/04
HITS Health IT Sharing Provides programmatic, analytical, and administrative
support to enable real-time, seamless sharing of critical
health data between VA and DoD’s Military Health
System.
01/15/09
HITSP Health Information Technology Standards Panel 06/22/07
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HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus 07/09/04
HL7 Health Level 7 (standard for electronic data
exchange/messaging protocol)
HL7 is a standards organization primarily focused on
message- oriented middleware for healthcare
06/20/07
HL7 RIM Health Level 7 Reference Information Model Serves as the foundation to both identify the classes
and attributes being addressed by HL7 standards, and
to ensure that each has semantic consistency whenever
they are referenced as part of HL7 activities.
06/20/07
HMO Health Maintenance Organization
HOLAR Hearing Officer Letters and Reports Database system used to maintain hearing officer
schedules and data and permits automatic letter and
report generation.
06/25/07
HOST Healthcare Open Systems and Trials 07/09/04
HOST Hybrid Open Systems Technology 07/09/04
HOST
(Federal)
Healthcare Open Systems and Trials 07/09/04
HOST (VA
Program)
Hybrid Open Systems Technology 07/09/04
HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications 07/09/04
HPDM High Performance Development Model Provides a framework for the Veterans Health
Administration to develop a highly skilled, customercentered
workforce by focusing on eight core
competencies.
06/20/07
HPMO Health Information Technology Project Management
Office
06/13/07
HPS Health Provider Systems 06/22/07
HQ Headquarters (used by VHA only) 07/09/04
HR Human Resources 07/09/04
HRAC Healthcare Resource Access Control 07/09/04
HRD Health Data Repository 06/13/07
HRM Human Resources Management 07/09/04
HRML Human Resources Management Letter 07/09/04
HRMS Human Resources Management Service 07/09/04
HRPP Human Research Protection Program 07/09/04
HRQoL Health Related Quality of Life 07/09/04
HRSA Health Resources Services Administration 07/09/04
HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration
HS&FO Health Science and Force Optimization Develops policy for, and oversees health research and
clinical investigations conducted under the Defense
Health Program
07/12/07
HSC Health Systems Committee 07/09/04
HSD&D Health Systems Design and Development Focuses on the design, development, and maintenance
of the VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems
Technology Architecture) system.
06/25/07
HSES Health Systems Executive Service 07/09/04
HSHC Hawaii State Healthcare Corporation 07/09/04
HSO Healthcare Support Office
HSPMO Health Systems Procurement Management Office
HSPO Health Systems Program Office
HSR&D Health Services Research and Development 06/13/07
HSRDATA Health Services Research Data 06/13/07
HSRO Health Systems Review Organization Performed internal review processes in VA medical
centers (VAMCs), as well as external reviews of VAMCs.
06/25/07
HSRS Human Subjects Research 06/13/07
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HSSPO Health Support Systems Program Office, DMSSC MHS
Military Health System
HTML Hypertext Markup Language 07/09/04
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol 07/09/04
HUG Human User Group 07/09/04
HVAC House Veterans Affairs Committee The committee in the U.S. House of Representatives
that is responsible for veterans benefits legislation.
06/27/07
HVT HealtheVet 06/13/07
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