This article expects that you understand what HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is. If not, read What Are HIPPA-Compliant Forms. In short, HIPPA Comlpiance requires the proper handling and securing of health information to protect patients.

The acronyms of data compliance

ACA (Affordable Care Act)

ACO (Accountable Care Organization)

AHIC (American Health Information Community)

AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association)

AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

ANSI (American National Standards Institute)

APHA (American Public Health Association)

API (Application Program Interface)

ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009)

ASTHO (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials)

BAA (Business Associate Agreement)

BHIE (Bi-directional Health Information Exchange)

BPM (Business Process Model)

BSV (Biosurveillance)

CC (Chronic Care)

CCD (Continuity of Care Document)

C-CDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture)

CDC (Centers for Disease Control)

CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium)

CE (Consumer Empowerment)

CCHIT (Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology)

CDS (Clinical Decision Support)

CHC (Community Health Centers)

CHIME (College of Health care Information Management Executives)

CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program)

CIO (Chief Information Officer)

CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)

CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)

CONNECT (NHIN gateway)

CONOPS (Concept of Operations)

COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf)

CPRS (Computerized Patient Record System)

CPT (Current Procedural Technology)

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

CSTE (Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists)

DoD (Department of Defense)

DURSA (Data use and reciprocal support agreement)

EA (Enterprise Architecture)

eCQI (Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement)

E-GOV (E-Government)

EHR (Electronic Health Record)

ELR (Electronic Lab Reporting)

EMR (Electronic Medical Record)

EHRA (Electronic Health Record Association)

eRX (Electronic Prescribing)

FACA (Federal Advisory Committee Act)

FAST (Federal Adoption of Standards for Health IT)

FDA (Food and Drug Administration)

FEA (Federal Enterprise Architecture)

FHA (Federal Health Architecture)

FHIPR (Federal Health Information Planning and Reporting)

FHIR (Fast Health care Interoperability Resources)

FHISE (Federal Health Information Sharing Environment)

FHITSOP (Federal Health IT Standards Organization Participation)

FORE (Foundation of Research and Education)

FSS (Federal Security Strategy)

FSWG (Federal Security Work Group)

FSWG (Food Safety Work Group - obsolete)

FTF (Federal Transition Framework)

HAF (Health Architect's Forum)

HHS (Department of Health & Human Services)

HI (Health Information)

HIE (Health Information Exchange)

HIMSS (Healthcare Information Management Systems Society)

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)

HISB (Healthcare Informatics Standards Board)

HISE (Health Information Sharing Environment)

HISP (Health Information Service Provider)

HISPC (Health Information Security and Privacy)

HIT (Health Information Technology)

HITAC (Health Information Technology Advisory Committee)

HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009)

HITPC (Health Information Technology Policy Council)

HITSP (Health Information Technology Standards Panel)

HL7 (Health Level 7)

HMD (Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)

HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration)

ICD (International Classification of Diseases)

IFMC (Iowa Foundation for Medical Informatics)

IHE (Integrating the Health care Enterprise)

IHS (Indian Health Service)

IOM (Institute of Medicine; now HMD)

IT (Information Technology)

JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)

LC (Leadership Council - FHA)

LOB (Line of Business)

LTPAC (Long Term Post Acute Care)

MACRA (Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015)

MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System)

MLPC (Managing Lead Partner Council - FHA)

MU (Meaningful Use)

MUA (Medically Underserved Areas)

NATE (National Association for Trusted Exchange)

NAHIT (National Alliance for Health Information Technology; "The Alliance")

NCI (National Cancer Institute)

NCPDP (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs)

NCSL (National Conference of State Legislatures)

NCVHS (National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics)

NGA (National Governors Association)

NHIE (NHIN Health Information Exchange)

NHIN (Nationwide Health Information Network)

NIH (National Institutes of Health)

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

NLM (National Library of Medicine)

NQF (National Quality Forum)

OCR (Office for Civil Rights)

OHITA (Office of Health Information Technology Adoption)

OIS (Office of Interoperability & Standards)

OMB (Office of Management & Budget)

ONC (Office of the National Coordinator (preferred abbreviation for ONCHIT))

ONCHIT (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology)

OPC (Office of Programs & Coordination)

OPR (Office of Policy & Research)

PARTner (The name for IFMC's system for collecting data from everyone who reports data in to OCSQ)

PCMH (Patient-Centered Medical Home)

PCP (Primary Care Physician)

PDMP (Prescription Drug Monitoring Program)

PHC (Personalized Health Care)

PHCCC (Population Health & Clinical Care Connections)

PHR (Personal Health Record)

PITAC (President's Information Technology Advisory Committee)

PM (Program Management)

PMO (Project Management Office)

PQRI (Physician Quality Reporting Initiative)

PQRS (Physician Quality Reporting System)

PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)

PVRP (Physician Voluntary Reporting Program)

QPP (Quality Payment Program)

QRDA (Quality Reporting Document Architecture)

QUAL (Quality)

RHIO (Regional Health Information Network)

RPMS (Resource and Patient Management System)

RTF (Review Task Force)

SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

SDO (Standards Development Organization)

SDLC (Standards Development Lifecycle)

SLHIE (State Level Health Information Exchange Consensus Project)

SNOMED (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine)

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)

TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)

TLS (Transport Layer Security)

VHA (Veterans Health Administration)

VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture)

VOE (Vista Office EHR)

WG (Work Group)

WW (Wounded Warrior