Object/Relational
Office of Cyber and Information Security
Order Entry
Office of Enterprise Development
Order Entry/Results Reporting
Office of Information
Office of Information and Technology
Office of Information Testing Process
Online Analytical Processing
Online Transaction Processing
Object Management Group
A specific medication order or action that is dependent upon another medication order or action taking place before it is carried out. For example, “Cefazolin 1 gm IVPB On‑Call to Operating Room.” Since it may be unknown when the Patient will be taken to the operating room, the administration of the On-Call Cefazolin is dependent on that event. This is also a schedule type. See glossary term Schedule Type.
A medication order given only one time to a Patient. This medication order type is usually given to the patient within a fixed length of time (e.g., 24 hours). One-time is also considered as a schedule type. See glossary term Schedule Type.
The architecture standard designed to accommodate all applications within the VA. The architecture should foster the sharing of information about Veterans within and between VA facilities located across the U.S.
Object-Oriented
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Outpatient
Outpatient Automated Interface
Open Electronic Health Record Foundation
The database-of-record, which contain data that continually changes as updates are made and that reflect the current value of the last transactions. It is a source of data for the data warehouse.
Operating Policies and Procedures
Operating Room
Logical OR
The relational database management system that has been identified by the VHA to be used for data storage needs at the national level.
The abbreviated name for Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations Codes. This coding system for therapeutic equivalence evaluations is constructed to allow users to determine quickly whether the FDA has evaluated a particular approved product as therapeutically equivalent to other pharmaceutically equivalent products (first letter) and to provide additional information on the basis of FDA’s evaluations (second letter).
A request for a product that will be used in the support of a single Patient care. Usually initiated by a Physician or an authorized person.
A review of the Patient’s current and proposed drug therapy for the purpose of promoting therapeutic appropriateness. This includes evaluation of the medication order and information from the Patient record for known allergies, contraindications, reasonable dose, and route of administration, reasonable directions for use, duplication of therapy, drug-drug, drug-food, and drug-disease interactions, and adverse drug reactions.
A request from VistA to PEPS to retrieve data from the COTS data source. This data will then be forwarded from PEPS back to VistA for use.
A logical group of items ordered together for one Patient that can be acted on as one (i.e., signed, discontinued). It serves as a mechanism to allow order entry operations on related orders to occur as a single operation. An “order set” can be created manually and can be saved, stored, and retrieved as needed for common therapy treatments. It also includes functionality currently associated with complex orders, templates, and quick orders.
Holds the list of packaging units that are valid when describing a drug entry.
A product the provider can select to order through CPRS. For pharmacy Orderable Items the provider will see “drug name and dose form” as the Orderable Item.
An authorized person who initiates the prescription order (e.g., Physician, Physician’s Assistant, Pharmacist, Nurse, or Nurse Practitioner).
The first dispensing of an Outpatient order. Also known as a First Fill.
Open Source Software
Over-the-Counter
Overall Test Plan
A VHA project in which all of the requests for automatic medication dispensing will be sent to this system. The system will then send the request to the most appropriate auto-filling machine containing the desired medication.
The indicator that determines the order in which Dispense Requests are filled for Outpatient orders. By default, Dispense Requests for Discharge orders are the highest priority. The second highest priority is Dispense Requests with a delivery method of Window. The third highest priority is Dispense Requests with a delivery method of Mail.
The physical presence of a person who has obtained Outpatient services during a single 24-hour period.
Drugs that are available from retail stores without a prescription.
A high-level depiction of the design of a software application that is part of a larger system.