Represents a Schedule 2 Narcotic
A fast memory used to hold commonly used variables, which are automatically fetched by hardware from the slower and larger main computer memory.
The post-relational database management system that has been identified by the VHA for data storage needs at the local level.
Cross-Application Integration Protocol
An undo action in a GUI (Cancel is not an action on an order).
The proposed design of a system structure.
A software element addressing a specific, well-defined functional responsibility of the containing service.
The process of planning, analyzing, sizing, and optimizing automated capabilities to satisfy demand in a timely manner and at a reasonable cost. This process should be proactive and responsive to business needs because the business cannot add resources after a capacity problem has happened without impacting performance.
A person who administers medication to the Patient. May pick up or receive medications for the Patient. May also communicate for the Patient in cases where the Patient is unable (e.g., Nurse, Resident, Physician, Spouse).
Community Based Outpatient Clinic
Current Business Process Model
Computer-Based Training
Change Control Board
Change and Configuration Management
Clinical Context Management (formally Clinical Context Object Workgroup)
Character Data
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Clinical Data Services
Clinical Data Warehouse
Clinical Evaluator
Committee European de Normalization
The lead Federal Agency for protecting the health and safety of people at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. Serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services
The formal process of recording, analyzing, estimating, tracking, and reporting of modifications to the project baseline artifacts, such as business functional requirements.
The mechanism by which a change to a project deliverable or artifact is requested.
A list of related versions associated with a change management activity.
An XML section tag used to denote character data that will be ignored by the XML parser. The tag begins with the string “”.
Composite Health Care System
Clinical Data Repository/Health Data Repository
A visual inspection by a pharmacist to ensure that the medication dispensed matches the labeled container
The treatment of a disease using chemical agents that are intended to eliminate the causative organisms without harming the Patient.
One or more Inpatient medication orders that are linked together using the conjunctions AND, OR, THEN, or EXCEPT to create combinations of dosages, medication routes, administration schedules, and order durations.
Consolidated Health Information Program System
Common Health Information Security Services
Configuration Items
Criteria Identification
Continuous Improvement Framework
Chief Information Officer
Capital Investment Proposal
The person or organizational entity that pays for the development of a product.
A piece of software that accesses remote services offered by another piece of software, usually over a network connection. In the user interface context, a client is a software application with which a user interacts to perform some function.
The model of interaction in distributed data processing in which a program at one location sends a request to a program at another location and awaits a response. The requesting program is called a client, and the answering program is called a server.
Formerly Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW). A vendor independent standard developed by the Health Level Seven (HL7) organization to allow clinical applications to share information at the point of care. Using a technique called “context management,” allows information in separate healthcare applications to be unified so that each individual application is referring to the same Patient, encounter, or user. Works for both client-server and Web-based applications.
A system extending the capabilities of interacting with Department of Defense (DoD) data sources. It will increase the accessibility of Veteran health information. It is currently planned to be used where VHA and DoD share facilities for healthcare. The current plan is to merge the two capabilities into a set of services.
The HealtheVet service responsible for providing read and write access to the Health Data Repository (HDR).
The informational or actionable tool that provides support during order processing. For example, a dosing calculator provides the logic to determine the appropriate dose for a medication. Also, a drug guideline is an informational resource for data relating to a medication.
A person who evaluates the clinical status of a Patient (e.g., Licensed Physician or Licensed Pharmacist).
The systematically developed statements to assist Practitioner and Patient decisions about appropriate healthcare for specific clinical circumstances.
Chief Logistics Officer
Configuration Management
Clinical Monitoring
Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy
The act of transmitting a prescription to a CMOP for dispensing.
Configuration Management Plan
Container Managed Transaction
A person who reviews and signs prescriptions or medical documents based on designated authority. A second signature is usually required when a document is initiated by a Provider that is undergoing training or in cases where the margin of error of the medication being prescribed is so small that a second signature is advised to ensure the safety of the Patient.
Content Access Service (formally Clinical Observation Access Service)
The commercially available applications sold by vendors through public catalogue listings. COTS software is not intended to be customized or enhanced.
An order that has been recorded, activated, filled, checked, and is ready for delivery to the Patient.
An order that consists of one or more linked medication orders, known as “child” orders.
A physical, replaceable part of a system that packages implementation and conforms to and provides the realization of a set of interfaces. A component represents a physical piece of implementation of a system, including software code (source, binary, or executable) or equivalents such as scripts or command files.
A software term for an independent unit of deployment composed of one or more modules within a package.
The creation and deployment of software-intensive systems assembled from components as well as the development and harvesting of such components.
A medication produced or manufactured by combining two or more ingredients.
Stored information in VistA, or other automated systems using electronic storage. CPRS supports entry of notes and orders, rules-based order checking, and results reporting (Medical Records Management Handbook). CPRS provides an integrated Patient record system for clinicians, managers, quality assurance staff, researchers, and others. It may be referred to as Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in the private sector.
The VA mail-order pharmacy system.
A constant administration dose of a drug for a specific duration of therapy. For example, the dosage of a drug might be “4mg” two times a day for 7 days.
The schedule of a drug remains constant for a specific duration of therapy. For example, a drug may have been scheduled for two times a day for 7 days.
A global requirement that restricts how a product or application may be produced.
A VistA product that is used to request and track consultations or procedures from one clinician to another clinician or service.
The subject matter, people, or organizations that might have an impact on the requirements of a product or application.
A visual representation of the application and the external applications, systems, or organizations with which it must interact.
A management plan that identifies alternative strategies to be used to ensure product success if specified risk events occur.
A medication order that is given continuously to a Patient for the life of the medication order, as defined by the Start/Stop Date/Time. This is also a schedule type.
These refer to the definition and use of different numbers for each inventory location to manage the quantity of inventory in that location. They include factors such as average rate of use by the functional area, delivery lead time, Par Level, the maximum quantity; Reorder Point, the quantity level at which a reorder signal is sent; and Safety Stock, a safety level quantity.
All drugs listed in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 21, Part 1300, to include the following:
A sealed package (e.g., brown bag, box, or envelope) containing one or more CS.
Continuity of Operations
A Copay Tier is a fixed copayment amounts depending on the class of the medication
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
Core-Financial and Logistics System
Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative
Commercial Off-The-Shelf (software)
A discussion aimed at educating a Patient about a drug therapy regimen. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA ’90) requires that all Patients be offered counseling for new medications. In particular, a Pharmacist must offer to discuss drug therapy regimens to each Patient when filling prescriptions for them. During counseling, the Pharmacist discusses any information about the drug therapy, which in the professional judgment of the Pharmacist is necessary for the proper use of the medication. The outcome of the counseling session is documented in the Patient’s electronic prescription order, indicating if a Patient accepted counseling and if the counseling was understood. Any extensive counseling and its documentation is recorded in a Text Integrated Utility (TIU) Progress Note.
Clozapine Patient Management Protocol
Computerized Physician Order Entry
Computerized Patient Record System
Computerized Patient Record System-Re-engineering Computerized Patient Record System-Rehosting
Central Processing Unit
Change Request
The recognition of professional or technical competence through registration, certification, licensure, etc.
The series of activities that determines the duration of the project. In a deterministic model, the critical path is usually defined as those activities with float-less-than or equal to a specific value, often zero. It is the longest path through the project.
A consistent set of interfaces for the common services in use within the Enterprise is required in order to promote interoperability within and across the VHA. The goal is to formalize these interfaces, providing style guidance to projects that will be building and using VHA’s service architecture. The principal objective is to provide clear guidance to project teams detailing the approach that is to be taken when building interfaces that require communication/collaboration with service components within the VHA.
Create-Read-Update-Delete
Controlled Substances
A person who performs a back-count on a Controlled Substances (CS) inventory location after removing stock.
A person who records the destruction of a CS at a central destruction site or the transfer of a CS to a third-party destruction agency.
A person who discovers a discrepancy between a system balance and a physical amount of CS, whether for an inventory location or for an invoice.
A person who disposes of a CS at a location other than a central destruction site (e.g., a nurse who cleans up a broken vial).
A person who audits CS inventory to ensure that the inventory balances are accurate and that all CS are accounted for.
A person who handles processes involving escalated problems with CS (e.g., the criminal reporting process for missing CS).
A person who packages CS for transport within the facility (e.g., vault technician, licensed pharmacist).
A person who receives CS after they have been transported within the facility (e.g., vault technician, nurse, or licensed pharmacist).
A person who ships packages containing CS.
A person who approves, edits, and cancels CS Shipping Orders.
A person who creates Shipping Orders for CS when the CS needs to be shipped back to the vendor or to locations with other Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) numbers.
A person who signs for an action involving CS that requires a signature.
A person who records the wasting of CS.
Computer Software Component
Computer Software Configuration Items
Core Specification for Re-hosting Initiatives
Comma Separated Value
Centralized Terminology Service
Captures and documents the business processes “as is.” Also known as the Current Business Model (CBM).
The amount of medications, supplies, etc., on-hand and available for dispensing.
Anyone who has custody of CS in the system.
The requestor, end-user, individual, or organization that specifies (or may assist with specification) and typically accepts the project deliverables. There may be multiple customers on a given project.
Crisis, Warnings, Allergies, Directives