Glossary

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