Situational Awareness for Novel Epidemic Response
1.0.0 - STU Release

This page is part of the Situational Awareness for Novel Epidemic Response (v1.0.0: STU 1) based on FHIR R4. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Glossary of Terms

The following terms and initialisms/acronyms are used within the SANER FHIR IG:

Term Definition
AHIC American Health Information Community
AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
COVID-19 coronavirus disease 2019
ED Emergency Department
EDXL Emergency Data Exchange Language
EEI essential elements of information
EHR electronic health record
FHIR Fast Health Interoperability Resources
HAvBED Hospital Available Beds for Emergencies and Disasters
HAvBED2 Hospital Available Beds for Emergencies and Disasters Version 2
HAVE Hospital Availability Exchange
HITSP The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
ICU Intensive Care Unit
LOINC Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
MERS Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
NHSN Centers for Disease Control’s National Healthcare Safety Network
NICU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
OASIS A standards development organization
ONC Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
SARS-Cov-2 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Associated Coronavirus 2
SNOMED Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine
SOA Service-oriented architecture
tern Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands.
USCDI United States Core Data for Interoperability