ANSI	American National Standards Institute.  SDO that coordinates the U.S.
        voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system.

CDA	Clinical Document Architecture.  Used as an exchange model for clincal
        documents.  ANSI approved standard.  Previously known as the Patient
        Record Architecture.

COTS	Commercial Off The Shelf

DICOM	Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicene.http://medical.nema.org/

DTD	Document Type Definition.  A document that describes what tags are
        allowed in a SGML based document.  Also describes the relations
        between tags.

EHR	Electronic Health Record.  See EMR, PMRI

EMR	Electronic Medical Record.  Roughly analogous to EHR and PMIR.

GUI	Graphical User Interface

HL7	Health Level 7.  SDO working on EMR formats.  http://www.hl7.org/

IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. http://www.ieee.org/

ISO	International Organization for Standardization.  Network of the
        national standards institutes of 148 countries.  http://www.iso.org

JIS X 0202	Method of storing Japanese characters in computer code.  See
                UNICODE.  http://www.io.com

LivePerson	A real-time customer service software solution that allows for
                company customer communication via chat windows.
                http://www.liveperson.com/

MMD	Medical Memory Device.  The portable wearable electronic medical
        record, typically embedded in a piece of jewelry.
        http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cpi/cpi-f2003/mms/

MMS	Medical Memory Systems.  The systems that supports the MMD.

NCPDP	National Council for Prescription Drug Programs.  SDO representing
        pharmacists and the drug industry.  http://www.ncpdp.org/  

PHP	A recursive acronym (Php is a Hypertext Preprocess).  Widely
        used scripting language that can be embedded into html.
        http://www.php.net

PMRI	Patient Medical Record Information.  Analogous to EHR and EMR

SDK	Software Development Kit

SDO	Standards Development Organizations

SGML	Standardized General Markup Language.  ISO defined standard for
        organzing documents via a system of tags.
        http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/

SSH	A Secure SHell program used to login to a computer across a network.
        A high security means of connecting across a network.

TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the set of
        communications protocols used to connect machines on the Internet

UNICODE	Method of storing letters and other characters in computer code by
        assigning a number for each one. http://www.unicode.org

XML	eXtensible Markup Language.  Flexible SGML-based formatting language
        that uses tags to define a document's structure.  http://www.w3.org/XML/