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 
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 |