PCD Abbreviations

11073	IEEE 11073 Medical Device Communications	IEEE Standard Suite	A set of standards covering communications and control for a variety of acute care and home healthcare devices
AAMI	Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation	Standards Development Organization	Sponsor of the IHE PCD
AC	Alarm Communication Management	IHE PCD Profile Actor	Reporting of alarms to persons, for example, by pagers or smart phones
ACM	Alarm Communication Management	IHE PCD Profile	Reporting of alarms to persons, for example, by pagers or smart phones
ADQ	Asynchronous Data Query	Obsolete IHE PCD Profile name	Patient Care Device (PCD) profile allowing a system to request device data from the past from another system. Term replaced by "Retrospective Data Query".
AM	Alarm Communicator	IHE PCD Profile Actor	In the Alarm Communication Management (ACM) profile, an actor receiving alarms after processing by an Alarm Manager (AM) and communicating them to endpoint devices such as pagers or smartphone
AR	Alarm Reporter	IHE PCD Profile Actor	In the Alarm Communication Management (ACM) profile, an actor originating a report of an alarm
ASN.1	Abstract Syntax Notation One	Communications term	A definition language for communications messages
CDA	Clinical Document Architecture	HL7 Term	An HL7 defined document type based on HL7 Version 3 semantics and expressed in XML
CDR	Clinical Data Repository	System type	Term for a system that supports persistent storage of clinical data, possibly semi-permanently
CIS	Clinical Information System	System type	A system primarily supporting clinical treatment, as opposed to, say, hospital administration
CP	Change Proposal	IHE Process Term	A formal document proposing a change to a Final Text Technical Framework
CT	Consistent Time	IHE IT Infrastructure Profile	Required profile for all other profiles, requiring system clocks to be accurate within a couple of seconds using Network Time Protocol, an IETF
DEC	Device Enterprise Communication	IHE PCD Profile	Basic data reporting
DIM	Domain Information Model	10073 term	Model describing the concepts and relationships of a problem domain
DOC	Device Observation Consumer	IHE PCD Profile Actor	An actor capable of consuming device data
DOR	Device Observation Reporter	IHE Profile Actor	IHE actor supporting device data reporting (as to an electronic medical record system)
DPI	Device Point-of-Care Integration	IHE PCD Work in progress	Profiles for low-latency high-volume communications from devices to device managers based on IEEE 11073
DS	Device Specialization	IHE PCD Profile type	An IHE profile specifying how a particular device type such as a physiological monitor, ventilator or infusion pump should report its data in Device Enterprise Communications
DS-IP	Device Specialization - Infusion Pump	IHE PCD Work in progress	an IHE profile specifying how infusion pumps should report their data in Device Enterprise Communications
EC	Event Communication	IHE PCD Profile	Like IPEC, only not limited to infusion pump events
eMAR	Electronic Medical Administration Record	System type	A system making a record of medication administration
HIMSS	Healthcare Information Management Systems Society	Standards Development Organization	Sponsor of the IHE PCD
IDCO	Implantable Device Cardiac Observations	IHE PCD Profile	Reporting profile for data from implantable devices
IEEE 11073		Standard	Medical Device Communications standard, the basis for IHE PCD nomenclature and the hierarchical designation of Medical Device System (MDS), Virtual Medical Device (VMD)
IHE	Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise	Standards (or Profile) Development Organization	An organization to create profiles of standards-based messages, mainly HL7 messages, in order to make them narrow and specific enough to make interoperable messages, in contrast to the great breadth and optionality of the basic HL7 message definitions
IPEC	Infusion Pump Event Communications	IHE PCD Profile	Reporting of infusion pump events to systems, rather than persons, for infusion tracking
ISO	International Standards Organization	Standards Development Organization	An international standards organization defining standards and often re-issuing standards from other standards development organizations for international use.
ITU	International Telecommunications Union	Standards Development Organization	Organization defining international standards for telecommunications technologies
MDIB	Medical data information base	11073 term
MDS	Medical Device System	Medical Device Communications term	Per IEEE 11073 term for an object representing an entire medical device
MDS	Medical Device System	11073 term	Object corresponding to a whole medical device
MEM	Medical Equipment Management	IHE PCD Work in progress	White paper, and ultimately profiles, for communications related to managing cybersecurity status, patching device software, life cycle management, and the like.
MEM-DMC	Medical Equipment Management - Device Management Communication	IHE PCD Work in progress	Communication of nonclinical device data for technology management purposes such as tracking device location and maintenance state
MRN	Medical Record Number	Data item	A number assigned by a healthcare provider to be a unique identifier for a patient
NIST	National Institute of Standards and Technology	Standards Development Organization	The federal technology agency that works with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards.
NTP	Network Time Protocol	IETF Recommendation	Long-standing method for synchronizing clocks on a network, including the Internet
OID	Object identifier	Standardized term	A system originally defined by the International Telecommunications Union for decentralized creation of unique identifiers, using a hierarchical notation of numbers separated by dots, with each successive number identifying a
OMS	Optimized Message Syntax	IHE PCD Work in progress	Project to create shorter messages by omitting nonessential characters from the format
PAM	Patient Administration Management	IHE IT Infrastructure Profile	An IHE IT Infrastructure profile allowing a system to receive a flow of Admit-Discharge-Transfer HL7 demographic messages in order to maintain a current list of patients relevant to operation of medical devices
PCD	Patient Care Device	IHE Domain	A domain or sub-part of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
PCIM	Point-of-Care Identity Management	IHE PCD Work in progress	Profile to support greater certainty of association between medical device data and the patient's identity
PDQ	Patient Data Query	IHE IT Infrastructure Profile	An IHE IT Infrastructure profile allowing a system to query another system with authoritative patient demographic data in to aid in sending accurate demographic data with device data
PDU	Protocol Data Unit	Communications term	Unit of data in a communication message
PIV	Point-of-Care Infusion Verification	IHE PCD Profile	A profile allowing a system to send an infusion order ultimately to a pump, for verification and starting by a clinician
POI	Pulse Oximetry Integration	IHE PCD Profile	Based on Device Enterprise Communications, but with more specifics about pulse oximetry
RDQ	Retrospective Data Query	IHE PCD Profile	Profile formerly known as Asynchronous Data Query
RDQ	Retrospective Data Query	IHE PCD Profile	Orginally called Asynchronous Data Query, a profile for requesting past device data from capable system.
Rosetta		IHE PCD Project	Nomenclature list for PCD profiles and the project to maintain it
RSNA	Radiological Society of North America	Standards Development Organization	One of the first sponsors of IHE
RTMMS	Rosetta Terminology Mapping Management System	NIST-IEEE 11073-IHE PCD joint project	Software tool and process for updating IEEE 11073-11073 Nomenclature for measurements, alarms, and other device-related entities
SCADA	Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition	Industrial Automation Term	In control systems, functionality for gathering data and controlling devices. In 11073, the subset (partition) of terms relating to such functions, including clinical measurements.
TF	Technical Framework	IHE Process Term	A multi-volume document describing the stable (Final Text) profiles of an IHE domain
UID	Universal Device Identifier	FDA project	Ongoing project to define a unique identifier format for all medical devices, starting with non-communicating ones like implants, eventually extending to other kinds of devices.
VMD	Virtual Medical Device	Medical Device Communications term	A medical device system, per IEEE 11073, for an object representing a subsystem of a medical device, as, for example, an ECG module in a physiological monitor
WCM	Waveform Content Message	IHE PCD Profile	A profile for communicating waveform data in HL7 in conjunction with PCD data and alarm transmission