Acquisition and Materiel Management
Authentication, Authorization, and Access
Austin Automation Center
Authorization and Authentication Infrastructure Program
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.
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).
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.
Automatic Call Distribution
Automicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability
Acknowledgement
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.
American College of Radiology
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.
A person who will use the system. Actors are used in Use Cases to document and model the envisioned System/User interaction.
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.
American Disability Act
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).
Automated Drug Dispensing System
Adverse Drug Event
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.
Contains the sets of standard times over which medications are to be administered.
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.
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.
Automated Data Processing Application Coordinator
Adverse Drug Reaction
Administrative Data Repository
Admission/Discharge/Transfer
The unwanted or unintended effects of an adverse drug event that occur during the drug’s proper use.
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.
The VHA software package that stores and reports the Patient allergy or adverse reaction data.
American Hospital Formulary Service Framework
Aviation Industry CBT Committee
Architecture and Interface Design Strategy Document
A software object typically generated by an application in response to some particular event. Alerts are messages that require acknowledgement from their recipients.
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.
A term used when developing Use Cases. An Alternate Flow is one segment of a complete path through a Use Case.
The process of collecting and storing encounter-based clinical, diagnostic, and administrative Outpatient data for daily transmission to the Austin Automation Center.
Automated Management Information System
Addiction Management System
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.
A Java-based software application building tool that provides full portability for pure Java code.
American National Standards Institute
Another Neat Tool
Application Programming Interface
A software product that provides a specified functionality.
Indicates which VistA package uses the item (e.g., Inpatient, Outpatient).
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.
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).
Audible Prescription Reading Devices
Accounts Receivable
Inpatient Pharmacy Automatic Replenishment/Ward Stock
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.
Any location where inventory is maintained, including pharmacies, Controlled Substances (CS) vaults, wards, clinics, etc.
Adverse Reaction Tracking
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.
Accredited Standards Committees
Application Structure and Integration Services
Active Server Page
An external factor that may be true in the future and that may have an impact on how an application is built.
American Society for Testing and Materials
Events that are not synchronized by a shared signal such as clock or semaphore, proceeding independently.
The brand name for the automatic dispensing unit that is used to package specific medications into unit dose packages.
Acceptance Test Plan
A name property of the class or its objects.
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.
The AAIP initiative has been replaced by KAAJEE.
A single, unambiguous, reliable, and official representation within a system.
A person given the appropriate system access and privileges to perform some task.
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.
A valid refill request forwarded directly to dispensing. These types of refills do not require any form of intervention prior to dispensing.
A list price, which few customers actually pay. There is no standard method for calculating the AWP.
Average Wholesale Price
Abstract Window Toolkit