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/

 

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