Name |
Definition |
A&A |
Aid and Attendance |
AMIE |
Automated Medical Information Exchange |
AMIS |
Automated Management Information System |
ASU |
Authorization/Subscription Utility |
CAC
|
Clinical Applications Coordinator. The CAC is a person at a hospital or clinic assigned to coordinate the installation, maintenance and upgrading of CPRS and other VistA software programs for the end users. |
CAPRI |
Compensation and Pension Record Interchange |
Consults |
Consult/Request Tracking, a VistA product that is also part of CPRS (it can function as part of CPRS, independently as a standalone package, or as part of TIU). It is used to request and track consultations or procedures from one clinician to another clinician or service. |
C-Number |
Claim Number |
C&P |
Compensation and Pension |
CPEP |
Compensation and Pension Examination Program |
CPRS
|
Computerized Patient Record System, the VistA package (in both GUI and character-based formats) that provides access to most components of the patient chart |
CPWM |
Compensation and Pension Worksheet Module |
Discharge Summary
|
Component of TIU that can function as part of CPRS, Discharge Summaries are recapitulations of a patient’s course of care while in the hospital. |
DoD |
Department of Defense |
FHIE |
Federal Health Information Exchange |
GUI
|
Graphical User Interface—a Windows-like screen with pull-down menus, icons, pointer device, etc. |
Health Summary
|
VistA product that can be viewed through CPRS, Health Summaries are components of patient information extracted from other VistA applications |
HDR |
Health Data Repository |
HIA |
Health Information Access |
Imaging |
VistA product that is also a component of CPRS; includes Radiology, X-rays, Nuclear Medicine, etc. |
IRM |
Information Resources Management |
MAS |
Medical Administration Service |
NP |
Nurse Practitioner |
Nurse Practitioner |
Registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician |
Progress Notes |
Component of TIU that can function as part of CPRS. |
RDV |
Remote Data View |
RO |
Regional Office |
RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
TIU |
Text Integration Utilities; a package for document handling, that includes Consults, Discharge Summary, and Progress Notes, and will later add other document types such as surgical pathology reports. TIU components can be accessed for individual patients through the CPRS, or for multiple patients through the TIU interface. |
VAMC |
VA Medical Center |
VARO |
Veterans Administration Regional Office |
VBA |
Veterans Benefits Administration |
VHA |
Veterans Health Administration |
VISN |
Veterans Integrated Service Network |
VistA |
Veterans Information Systems Technology Architecture, the new name for Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DHCP) |
VistAWeb |
Intranet web application used to review remote patient information found in VistA and the Health Data Repository (HDR) databases |