Entity/Relationship
Electronic, Error, and Enhancement Report
Entity-Based Access Control
Electronic Business eXtensible Markup Language
Executive Change Management Board
Electronic Claims Management Engine
Engineering Change Request
Electronic Claims Submission System
Electronic Data Interchange
Electronic Data Systems
External Environment
An invoice received electronically into the pharmacy system from the prime vendor for medications.
Enterprise Java Bean
An additive that disassociates into ions (charged particles) when placed in solution.
A software application located on Forum. It is used VHA-wide to submit suggestions for changes to Office of Information Field Office (OIFO) software products.
Electronic billing for outpatient prescriptions at point of care service.
A computer data compilation of any symbol or series of symbols executed, adopted, and/or authorized by an individual to be the legally binding equivalent of the individual’s handwritten signature. See glossary term Digital Signature for expansion of this concept within the VA.
An object that encompasses a set of versions, organized into a version tree. They can be either files or directories.
A group of individuals who receive email and alerts about a topic pertaining to the group.
A bulk supply of drugs stored in central pharmacy specifically for use in large scale emergencies or catastrophic events. The supply is not available for use in filling Patient orders unless released to the pharmacy prior to replacement or expiration.
The hiding of a software object’s internal representation. The object provides an interface that queries and manipulates the data without exposing its underlying structure.
A professional contact between a Patient and a Practitioner. A Patient may have multiple encounters for one appointment or during a single visit to a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) facility.
A type of stakeholder request that specifies a new feature or functionality of the system.
The architecture that incorporates an entire business or major portion thereof.
A compendium of medications, supplies, and prosthetics available for ordering.
A standardized set of medical vocabulary used within VHA systems, provides for the sets that accommodate local variations in terminology, and supports automated translation among terminology sets.
The inclusive name for both the ERT and VETS projects. ETS determines terminology for clinical content (i.e., Pharmacy, Labs, Orders, Vitals). ETS has been renamed to Standardized Terminology Service (STS).
A reusable software component used to implement business logic; multiple clients can access it simultaneously; it represents persistent items that could be stored in a database.
The name of the user who entered the order into the computer.
VA electronic pharmacy claims. Used to transmit claims between the VHA and insurance providers.
Enterprise Product List
EPL Local
EPL Master
EPL National
Emergency Room
Entity-Relationship
Enterprise Reference Terminology
Enterprise Strategy
A Use Case containing a basic course of action. It is referred to as the “typical-path;” the main start-to-finish path that the actor and the system will follow under normal circumstances. Any activity that deviates from the “typical-path” is referred to as an alternate course of action. See the glossary term Use Case.
Enhanced Therapeutic Classification
An occurrence that may be synchronous or asynchronous and to which an application must respond in some manner.
The date a drug is no longer allowed to be used to fill a Patient order based on a time period established by the manufacturer after which the drug effectiveness is likely to have deteriorated. Maintaining control of this constraint is a high priority Patient safety issue for VHA.
A relationship that continues the functionality of a “parent” Use Case but is subject to a specific condition. It is used to indicate a relationship between a “parent” Use Case and a Use Case containing an alternate course of action. It is conditional and may or may not be used by the “parent” Use Case.
A simple, very flexible text format derived from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
A simple, very flexible text format derived from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
A named marker that references a location or set of locations within the behavioral sequence for a Use Case, at which point additional behavior can be added.