Acronyms
| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery | |
| ACR | American College of Radiology | |
| AHA | American Hospital Association | |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence (as in the AI Lab at MIT) | |
| AMA | American Medical Association | |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute | |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | |
| ASP | Application Service Provider (easily confused with Active Server Pages, a format for web site programming created by Microsoft) | |
| ATM | Asynchronous Transfer Mode | |
| BBN | Bolt, Beranek and Newman | |
| BBN | Buckingham, Brown and Nichols | |
| BIND | Berkeley Internet Name Domain | |
| BWH | Brigham and Women's Hospital | |
| CCITT | Comité Consultatif International Télégraphique et Téléphonique | |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer | |
| CF | Computed Fluoroscopy | |
| CFO | Chief Financial Officer | |
| CHF | Congestive Heart Failure | |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer= | |
| COBOL | Common Business Oriented Language | |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture | |
| CR | Computed Radiography | |
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets | |
| CT | Computed Tomography | |
| DICOM | Digital Image and COMmunication protocol | |
| DNS | Domain Name Server | |
| DRG | Disease Related Group | |
| FSF | Free Software Foundation | |
| FTC | Federal Trade Commission | |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol | |
| GNU | Gnu's Not Unix | |
| GPL | General Public License (sometimes GNU Public License) | |
| HBS | Harvard Business School | |
| HIMSS | Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society | |
| HIS | Healthcare Information Systems | |
| HMO | Health Maintenance Organization | |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language | |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol | |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority | |
| ICANN | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | |
| IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission | |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force | |
| IP | Internet Protocol | |
| IPO | Initial Public Offering | |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board | |
| IS | Information Services | |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network | |
| ISO | Not an Acronym. See About ISO | |
| ISOC | Internet SOCiety | |
| IT | Information Technology | |
| ITU | International Telecommunications Union | |
| LAN | Local Area Network | |
| LISP | LISt Processing | |
| MGH | Massachusetts General Hospital | |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| MP3 | MPEG Layer 3 (MPEG is Moving Picture Experts Group) | |
| MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging | |
| NCI | National Cancer Institutes | |
| NEMA | National Electrical Manufacturing Association | |
| NIH | National Institute of Health | |
| NLM | National Library of Medicine | |
| NM | Nuclear Medicine | |
| NMR | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | |
| OSI | Open Systems Interconnection | |
| PACS | Picture Archiving and Communications System | |
| PCP | Primary Care Provider | |
| PTC | Partners Telemedicine Center | |
| RFC | Request for Comment | |
| RFP | Request for Proposal | |
| RIS | Radiology Information System | |
| RSNA | Radiological Society of North America | |
| SEC | Securities and Exchange Commission | |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | |
| SNMP | Simple Network Managment Protocol | |
| TCP/IP | Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | |
| URI | Universal Resource Identifier | |
| URL | Universal Resource Locater | |
| VAR | Value Added Reseller | |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network | |
| WWHQ | World Wide Head Quarters | |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language | |
| XSL | eXtensible Style Sheets |
Last Modified 11-Sep-99 9:13 PM ckelty@mit.edu
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