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NACCHO -
National Association of City and County Health
Officials. See
ASTHO,
Biosurveillance,
CDC,
CDPH,
CSTE,
ISDS,
WHO
NAHIT -
National Alliance for Health Information Technology. Disbanded in 2009.
NAPHSIS -
National Association for Public
Health Statistics and Information Systems.
NATE -
National Association for Trusted Exchange.
NCHIN -
North Coast Health Information Network,
awarded an HIE Expansion Grant in 2011 by Cal eConnect.
See
Cal eConnect
NCHS -
National Center for Health Statistics
provides comprehensive information on births, deaths, aging, disease
classification and other health statistics. See
CDC
NCI -
National Cancer Institute, part of NIH.
See
caBIG,
NCIP,
NIH
NCIP -
National Cancer Informatics Program,
part of NCI.
See
caBIG,
Informatics,
NCI
NCPDP -
National Council for Prescription Drug
Programs is an ANSI-accredited Standards Development Organization (SDO).
See
ANSI,
SDO
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NCQA -
The National Committee for Quality Assurance
is a private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving
health care quality. NCQA quality measures are based on billing and claims data,
and therefore are focused on optimization of the purchasing of health care
services rather than on the clinical effectiveness of the care delivered.
See
NQF,
HEDIS
NCVHS   -  
National Committee on Vital and Health
Statistics is the statutory public advisory body on health data, statistics
and national health information policy for the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
NCVHS was created by the HIPAA legislation.
See
HHS,
HIPAA
NEDSS -
National Electronic Disease Surveillance System.
NeHC -
The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) was a public-private partnership
established through a grant in 2008 from the Office of the National Coordinator
to build on the accomplishments of the American Health Information Community
(AHIC), which was a federal advisory committee to HHS until 2008. Essentially,
AHIC was transitioned to the private sector. For a few years NeHC found a role
as a source of educational programming ("NeHC University") among that portion
of the health care community that closely follows IT policy leadership by the
US government. In December 2013 NeHC merged with the HIMSS
Foundation to form the Center for
Family and Patient-Centered Care. See
AHIC,
FACA,
HHS,
HIMSS,
ONC
NEMSIS -
National Emergency Medical Services Information System.
Network -
A collection of computing devices connected by communications channels.
Networks can be wired, wireless, open, closed, local, global, etc.
See
Internet
Never Events -
A medical error that should never occur under any circumstance.
NGA -
National Governors Association.
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NGO -
Non-Governmental
Organization (e.g., Médecins Sans
Frontières, Amnesty
International, etc.), are legally constituted organizations that operate
independently of governments. The term was originated by the United Nations
to refer to organizations that are not part of a government and are not a
conventional for-profit business.
NHII -
National
Health Information Infrastructure. A deprecated term replaced in
2004 by NHIN. See
LHII,
NHIN,
NwHIN
NHIN -
("enn-hinn") A discontinued abbreviation for the
Nationwide Health Information Network. This term was replaced in 2010 by NwHIN.
See
LHII,
NHII,
NwHIN,
ONC
NHIN Direct -
A push transport
specification
sponsored by ONC as community development of a "simple interop" style protocol
conforming to the overall framework provided by the
NHIN
Workgroup. See
Simple Interop
NHSC -
National Health Service Corps is a
scholarship program operated by HRSA that repays student loans in exchange for
active duty in the USPHSC in communities with limited access to health care.
See
HRSA,
PHS
NICU -
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
See
ICU
NIEM -
("neem") National
Information Exchange Model.
See
IEPD
NIH -
The National Institutes of Health. The
mission of the NIH is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and
behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance
health, lengthen life, and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.
See
HHS,
NCI,
NLM,
RxNORM,
UMLS
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NIST -
("nist") The National
Institute of Standards and Technology is a non-regulatory federal agency
within the Department of Commerce.
See
FIPS,
FISMA,
LOA,
PII
NLM -
National Library of Medicine.
Part of the NIH. See
HHS,
NIH,
RxNORM,
UMLS
NLP -
Natural Language Processing. See
CUI,
NP,
VP
NOC -
Network Operations Center.
Noise -
Unwanted pertubation accompanying a wanted signal.
See
Analog,
Channel,
GIGO,
Robo-text,
Signal
Non-repudiation -
Non-repudiation
is a feature ensuring that a system-level event (e.g., a user login) cannot
later be denied by the participant involved in the event. Non-repudiation is
the opposite of plausible deniability. See
Access Control,
Authetication
NoSQL -
A NoSQL database does not adhere fully to all relational DBMS features, e.g.,
it may be optimized for retrieve and append operations and offer little
functionality beyond record storage (e.g. key-value stores). The reduced
run-time features compared to a full SQL system may be compensated by gains
in scalability and performance.
See
DBMS,
Key-value,
MongoDB,
SQL
NP -
Noun phrase. See
CUI,
NLP
NPI -
National Provider Identifier, maintained by CMS as part of NPPES.
See
CMS,
NPPES
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NPPES -
HIPAA mandated the adoption of standard unique identifiers for health care
plans and providers. In response, CMS developed and maintains the
National Plan and Provider
Enumeration System. Healthcare provider IDs are typically called NPI
numbers. See
CMS,
HIPAA,
NPI,
UPIN
NPRM -
Notice of Proposed Rule Making.
See
IFR
NQF -
The National Quality Forum is a
private, not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and
implement a national strategy for healthcare quality measurement and
reporting. NQF quality measures are based on clinical data.
See
NCQA
NTE -
HL7 clinical note message segment.
See
HL7
NTP -
Network Time Protocol is specified in
RFC 5905.
See
CT,
RFC
Nursing Informatics -
The science
and practice that integrates nursing information and knowledge with
information and communication technologies to promote the health of people,
families, and communities worldwide.
See
AMIA,
Informatics
NVE -
NwHIN Validated Entities. See
ONC
NwHIN -
("new-hin" or "enn-win") The Nationwide Health Information
Network is a collection of standards, protocols, legal agreements,
specifications, and services to enable secure exchange of health information.
The acronym NwHIN has the exact same meaning as the prior acronym,
NHIN, namely the "Nationwide Health Information Network."
Curiously, after six years of widespread national use of the previous acronym
"NHIN" (and its corresponding pronounciation "enn-hinn") ONC announced in 2010
that it would retain the name "Nationwide Health Information Network" but it
would cease use of the acronym "NHIN" due to its prior commercial use by a
vendor. In 2012 the NwHIN
governance was spun off to Healtheway, a public private partnership.
See
CONNECT,
DURSA,
FHA,
Healtheway,
NeHC,
NHIN,
Prototype Architecture,
ONC,
Trial Implementation
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NwHIN Exchange -
A group of federal agencies and private organizations that collaborated to
securely exchange electronic health information. The NwHIN Exchange was a core
feature of the Trial Implementation project. See
CONNECT,
DURSA,
Healtheway,
Trial Implementation
NYeC -
[ "nice" ] New York eHealth Collaborative.
See
HEAL-NY,
SHIN-NY
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