pff="Pediatric Faculty Foundation"
aafp="American Academy of Family Practice"
emr="Electronic Medical Record"
edi="Electronic Data Interchange"
imsg="Information Management Steering Group"
atag="Academic Technical Advisory Group"
cpt="Current Procedural Terminology"
it="Information Technology (see glossary)"
moore="Gordon Moore asserted that the density of circuits on a computer chip would double every two years."
vpn="Virtual Private Network.  Secure, remote access to data through the internet."
acd="Automatic Call Distribution"
hhs="Department of Health and Human Services"
loinc="Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes"
hl7="Health Level 7"
dicom="Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine"
ncpdp="National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, Inc."
ansi="American National Standards Institute"
umls="Unified Medical Language System"
ncvhs="The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics"
ansix12n837="HIPAA Security Standard"
snomed="Systematic Nomiclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine"
chi="Consolidated Health Informatics initiative of the US Department of Health and Human Services"
ieee="Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc."
ehc="Electronic Health Collaborative.  A joint venture of HL7 and IOM contracted by HHS to fast track data standards."
hipaa="Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act"
crm="Customer Relations Management"
iom="US Institute of Medicine"
pso="Patient Safety Organization, as defined in legislation under consideration."
authentication="The verification of the identity of a person or process. In a communication system, authentication verifies that messages really come from their stated source, like the signature on a (paper) letter."
integrity="A constraint (rule) that data remains true to that created and transmitted." 
confidentiality="Protections that ensure that only intended persons can view information."
nonrepudiation="Firm assertion about the author of material so that they cannot deny they produced it."
publickey="An encryption scheme, introduced by Diffie and Hellman in 1976, where each person gets a pair of keys, called the public key and the private key. Each person's public key is published while the private key is kept secret. Messages are encrypted using the intended recipient's public key and can only be decrypted using his private key. This is often used in conjunction with a digital signature. The need for sender and receiver to share secret information (keys) via some secure channel is eliminated: all communications involve only public keys, and no private key is ever transmitted or shared."
Internet="Public, world-wide network of connected computers; the world wide web (WWW) is a feature of this network, as is electronic mail and file sharing."
Internet2="A high-speed network connecting universities for the sharing of data and video."
firewall="A software of hardware tool that prevents unauthorized access into and out of a private network (intranet)."
intranet="An internal, private network of computers; also called a LAN or local area network"
ptg="Pediatric Technology Group.  A departmental group who purpose is to advise the Chair and coordinate technology initiatives between divisions and, with the approval of the Chair, with external groups."
ccrc="Children's Computing Resource Center"