Bahmni Glossary of Terms & Abbreviations

This page lists all Terms/Abbreviations that you might encounter on Bahmni, in an alphabetically ordered manner. If you think something is missing, please drop a comment on the wiki / slack. Thanks!

OpenMRS Glossary: Please do check the detailed OpenMRS Glossary of Terms too: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/OpenMRS+Glossary

	Term	Full Form	Description

	Term	Full Form	Description
1	API	Application Programming Interface	A set of definitions and protocols to build and integrate application software.
2	ABDM	Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission	India’s National blueprint architecture for all Digital Health systems, built on FHIR standard. Read more here: Bahmni and ABDM
3	ATC	Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System	The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System is a drug classification system that classifies the active ingredients of drugs according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic, pharmacological and chemical properties. Its purpose is an aid to monitor drug use and for research to improve quality medication use. Read more on wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_Therapeutic_Chemical_Classification_System
4	CIEL	Columbia International eHealth Laboratory (CIEL) dictionary.	The CIEL concept dictionary is a dictionary of over 53 thousand concepts relevant to health information systems in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Those concepts include diagnoses, procedures, medications, labs and observables (answers to questions) all mapped to international standard coding systems such as ICD-10-WHO, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNORM, and many others. It is used by electronic health records and other health information systems in more than 40 countries. Read more here: https://openconceptlab.org/2022/10/19/ciel-bridging-terminology-for-the-global-community/
5	DCM4Chee	Open Source Clinical Image and Object Management software that acts as a PACS server.	dcm4che is a collection of open source applications and utilities for the healthcare enterprise. These applications have been developed in the Java programming language for performance and portability, supporting deployment on JDK 1.6 and up.
6	DHIS2	District Health Information Management System	https://dhis2.org/
7	DICOM	Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard	DICOM standard specifies a non-proprietary data interchange protocol, digital image format, and file structure for biomedical images and image-related information.
8	EMR	Electronic Medical Record
9	EHR	Electronic Health Record
10	ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning software	(like Odoo, SAP, etc)
11	FHIR	The HL7® FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard	https://www.hl7.org/fhir/
12	FHIR IG	FHIR Implementation Guide	All see this: https://discourse.ohie.org/t/did-you-know-there-are-multiple-types-of-fhir-igs/4630
13	HIE	Health Information Exchange
14	HIMS	Hospital Information Management System (e.g Bahmni)
15	ICD10	International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)	ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the ICD, a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10#Chapters
16	IDM	Identity Management	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_management
17	LOINC	Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) standard	Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) is a database and universal standard for identifying medical laboratory observations
18	OCL	Open Concept Lab	https://openconceptlab.org/
19	OpenMRS	Open Medical Record System (opensource software)	http://openmrs.org
20	OpenELIS	Open Enterprise Lab Information System (opensource)	https://openelis-global.org/ (Note: Bahmni ships a forked version of OpenELIS).
21	OTP	One Time Password	A way of ensuring security by sending/generating a single-use password.
22	PACS	Picture archiving and communication system	A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a computerised means of replacing the roles of conventional radiological film: images are acquired, stored, transmitted, and displayed digitally.
23	REST API	Representational State Transfer (REST)	Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architecture that imposes conditions on how an API should work. RESTful API is an interface that two computer systems use to exchange information securely over the internet
24	RxNorm	Short for: medical prescription normalized	US-specific terminology in medicine that contains all medications available on the US market
25	SHR	SHR (Shared Health Record)	In healthcare, a Shared Health Record (SHR) is a patient's complete medical record that is shared among different care providers
26	SNOMED	Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED) standard	https://www.snomed.org/
27	TS	Terminology Server	e.g. Bahmni has integrated with SNOMED TS called Snowstorm, over FHIR. Read more here.
28	UHI	Unified Health Interface (UHI)	The Unified Health Interface (UHI) is a network of open protocols that enable the interoperability in health services. https://uhi.abdm.gov.in/