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NHII Site Index

NHII Home Coordinating Activities Public Health Related Activities Standards Organizations Health Care Organizations State and Local Activities MEETINGS SITE INDEX

Subject Index

 

Coordinating Activities

Advanced Technology Program (ATP) 
Connecting for Health 
Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) 
E- Health Initiative (eHI) 
HHS Initiative 
National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT) 
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) 

Health Care Organizations

AHIMA 
AMIA 
HIMSS 
Intermountain Health Care 
NAHDO 
Partners HealthCare 

Public Health-Related Activities

All Kids Count (AKC) 
Health Alert Network (HAN) 
National Immunization Program (NIP) 
National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) 
Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC) 
Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) 
Public Health Information Network (PHIN) 
Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance System (RODS) 

State and Local Activities

HealthKey Collaborative 
Indianapolis Network (INPC) 
The Leapfrog Group 
Michigan Electronic Medical Record Initiative 
New England Health Information Network (NEHEN) 
North Carolina Health Communications (NCEDD) 
Patient Safety Institute (PSI) 
Santa Barbara Care Data Exchange (CDE) 

Standards and Standards Organizations

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) 
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) 
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) 
Health Level 7 (HL7) 
Health Information Standards Board (HISB) 
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 
IOM Patient Safety Data Standards 
International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9CM) 
Logical Observations: Identifiers, Names, Codes (LOINC) 
National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) 
NDF-RT and RxNorm 
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) 
Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) 
X12N 

Alphabetical Index

 
Advanced Technology Program (ATP) 
All Kids Count (AKC) 
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) 
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) 

Connecting for Health 
Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) 
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) 

E- Health Initiative (eHI) 

Health Alert Network (HAN) 
HHS Initiative 
HealthKey Collaborative 
HIMSS 

Health Information Standards Board (HISB) 
Health Level 7 (HL7) 

Indianapolis Network (INPC) 
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 
IOM Patient Safety Data Standards 
Intermountain Health Care 
International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9CM)

The Leapfrog Group 
Logical Observations: Identifiers, Names, Codes (LOINC) 

Michigan Electronic Medical Record Initiative 

National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT) 
NAHDO 

National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) 
National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) 
NDF-RT and RxNorm
National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) 
National Immunization Program (NIP) 
New England Health Information Network (NEHEN) 
North Carolina Health Communications (NCEDD) 

Partners HealthCare 
Patient Safety Institute (PSI) 
Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC) 
Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) 
Public Health Information Network (PHIN) 

Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance System (RODS) 

Santa Barbara Care Data Exchange (CDE) 
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) 

Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

X12N 
 

Definitions

 
Institute of Medicine
NCVHS is the advisory body to HHS and Congress on health information policy.
National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development oversees the crosscutting $2 billion Federal information technology research and development budget.
National Research Council
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee provides advice and guidance on all aspects of high-performance computing, communications, and information technologies.