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A&MM

Acquisition and Materiel Management

AAA

Authentication, Authorization, and Access

AAC

Austin Automation Center

AAIP

Authorization and Authentication Infrastructure Program

ABC Inventory Analysis

A method used to categorize inventory into groups based on certain characteristics in order to develop inventory planning policies, plan orders, set inventory control schedules, and manage inventory quantity levels and costs. The three categories may be based on certain activity characteristics. A items compose 10% of the products but are 70% of the cost. B items compose 20% of the items but are 20 % of the cost. C items compose 70% of products but are 10% of the cost. Other ABC characteristics could be developed based on such things as consumption rates or drug characteristics such as risk or effectiveness.

Accept Order

An authorized user indicating to the system after entering an order that the order is complete and ready for signature. The acceptance of the order changes the order status to Pending (refer to Pending definition) and triggers a notification to the provider for a co-signature or second signature (if needed).

Accessor

A Java method that examines the state of an object, does not change it, and typically returns a result. Accessors are often called getters and their names often start with get.

ACD

Automatic Call Distribution

ACID

Automicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability

ACK (HL7)

Acknowledgement

Acquisition and Materiel Management (A&MM)

The service organization that reviews all requests for supplies and equipment, and maintains systems, procedures, controls, and reports for: stock control, equipment planning and acquisition, property accounting and control, procurement from VA sources and other agencies, excess and exchange/sale property disposal, and supply fund management programs. The service organization also initiates and coordinates all equipment and supply action involving new and replacement facility construction, and audits invoices and all receiving reports and resolves discrepancies with Fiscal Service.

ACR

American College of Radiology

Activator

A person given the authority to review and finish a pending electronic product order so that it can be filled in accordance with Provider instructions.

Actor

A person who will use the system. Actors are used in Use Cases to document and model the envisioned System/User interaction.

Actor Generalization

An approach used in Use Case development to show that actors are specializations of one another. For example, the PEPS Manager actor is a generalization of a PEPS Local Manager and a PEPS National Manager.

ADA

American Disability Act

Additive

A drug (e.g., an electrolyte, vitamin, nutrient, antibiotic) that is added to an IV solution for the purpose of parenteral administration (giving a drug intravenously).

ADDS

Automated Drug Dispensing System

ADE

Adverse Drug Event

Administration Discrepancy Limit

A VA Data Field in the PEPS system denoting the amount of a drug that can be missing before a criminal reporting process is started.

Administrative Schedule Domain

Contains the sets of standard times over which medications are to be administered.

Admission/Discharge

A module of the Patient Information Management System (PIMS) that provides a comprehensive range of software supporting the administrative functions of Patient registration, admission, discharge, and transfer.

Admixture

A type of intravenously administered medication comprised of any number of additives (including zero) in at least one solution. It is given at a specified flow rate.

ADPAC

Automated Data Processing Application Coordinator

ADR

Adverse Drug Reaction

ADR (Architecture)

Administrative Data Repository

ADT

Admission/Discharge/Transfer

Adverse Drug

The unwanted or unintended effects of an adverse drug event that occur during the drug’s proper use.

Adverse Drug Event (ADE)

The unwanted or unintended events caused by medical management rather than by the underlying disease or the condition of the Patient. May not always cause an injury.

Adverse Reaction Tracking (ART)

The VHA software package that stores and reports the Patient allergy or adverse reaction data.

AHFS (Framework)

American Hospital Formulary Service Framework

AICC

Aviation Industry CBT Committee

AID

Architecture and Interface Design Strategy Document

Alerts

A software object typically generated by an application in response to some particular event. Alerts are messages that require acknowledgement from their recipients.

Allocated Inventory

The quantity of physical inventory on-hand (i.e., in storage at that particular location) that is committed for use in filling activated Patient orders.

Alternative Flow

A term used when developing Use Cases. An Alternate Flow is one segment of a complete path through a Use Case.

Ambulatory Care Reporting Project

The process of collecting and storing encounter-based clinical, diagnostic, and administrative Outpatient data for daily transmission to the Austin Automation Center.

AMIS

Automated Management Information System

AMS

Addiction Management System

Ancillary Support

Auxiliary or secondary services provided to a patient in addition to his or her main healthcare services. For example, lab tests are typically considered ancillary support.

Another Neat

A Java-based software application building tool that provides full portability for pure Java code.

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ANT

Another Neat Tool

API

Application Programming Interface

Application

A software product that provides a specified functionality.

Application Package Use

Indicates which VistA package uses the item (e.g., Inpatient, Outpatient).

Application Programming Interface (API)

Enables applications to communicate with each other. An API is the set of programming language constructs or statements that can be coded in an application program to obtain the specific functions and services provided by an underlying operating system or service program.

Application Services

A single logical authoritative source of data. Its purpose is to encapsulate the business rules associated with its data and to abstract the data source(s) from the applications and/or services that interact with it (i.e., Billing, Clinical Reminders, Person Demographics, Terminology, Appointment Management).

APRD

Audible Prescription Reading Devices

AR

Accounts Receivable

AR/WS

Inpatient Pharmacy Automatic Replenishment/Ward Stock

Architecture

The organizational structure of a system Hardware Configuration Item (HWCI), or Computer Software Configuration Item (CSCI), identifying its components, their interfaces, and a concept of execution among them.

Area of Use

Any location where inventory is maintained, including pharmacies, Controlled Substances (CS) vaults, wards, clinics, etc.

ART

Adverse Reaction Tracking

Artifact

A physical piece of information used or produced by a software development process. Examples of artifacts include documents, models, source files, scripts, and binary executable files. It is a work product or a deliverable.

ASC

Accredited Standards Committees

ASIS

Application Structure and Integration Services

ASP

Active Server Page

Assumption

An external factor that may be true in the future and that may have an impact on how an application is built.

ASTM

American Society for Testing and Materials

Asynchronous

Events that are not synchronized by a shared signal such as clock or semaphore, proceeding independently.

ATC Canister

The brand name for the automatic dispensing unit that is used to package specific medications into unit dose packages.

ATP

Acceptance Test Plan

Attribute

A name property of the class or its objects.

Audit Record (Inventory)

A record stored in the system to allow tracking, accountability, reporting, and process metrics of specific actions. One example is the required accountability throughout the CS handling processes.

Authentication, Authorization, and Access (AAA) Security

The AAIP initiative has been replaced by KAAJEE.

Authoritative Source

A single, unambiguous, reliable, and official representation within a system.

Authorized User

A person given the appropriate system access and privileges to perform some task.

Automated Management Information System (AMIS)

A generalized system established to provide and meet the reporting requirements for the VHA and to provide statistical data for management use at all levels.

Automatic Refill

A valid refill request forwarded directly to dispensing. These types of refills do not require any form of intervention prior to dispensing.

Average Wholesale Price (AWP)

A list price, which few customers actually pay. There is no standard method for calculating the AWP.

AWP

Average Wholesale Price

AWT

Abstract Window Toolkit



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