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Bulk Data Abbreviations

This page contains a list of abbreviations mentioned in this implementation guide.

Healthcare Abbreviations

• CQL - Clinical Quality Language
• DSTU - Draft Standard for Trial Use
• EHR - Electronic Health Record
• HL7 - Health Layer 7
• IG - Implementation Guide
• FHIR - Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
• PHI - Protected Health Information
• PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• RIM - Reference Information Model
• SMART - Substitutable Medical Apps, Reusable Technology
• STU - Standard for Trial Use

External

• API - Application Programming Interface
• HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• HTTPS - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
• JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
• JWT - JSON Web Token
• JWK - JSON Web Keys
• MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• NDJSON - Newline Delimited JavaScript Object Notation
• OID - Object Identifier
• REST - Representational State Transfer
• RFC - Request for Comments
• RSA - Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman (inventors of the RSA public-key encryption algorithm)
• TLS - Transport Layer Security
• URL - Uniform Resource Locator
• URI - Universal Resource Identifier
• UTF - Unicode Transformation Format
• XML - Extensible Markup Language