Program in Biomedical Informatics
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Glossary
The following terms, acronyms, and abbreviations are used on this web site:
AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
BIG Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics
BMI Biomedical Informatics
BU Boston University
BWH Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Caregroup Caregroup, Inc., parent of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
CDMG Clinical Decision Making Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CHIP Children’s Hospital Informatics Program
CHMC Children’s Hospital Medical Center
CIMIT Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology
DSG Decision Systems Group, Brigham & Women's Hospital
EECS Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
HDS Health Decision Sciences, a program offered by the Departments of Health Policy and Management and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HMS Harvard Medical School
HP&M Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
HSPH Harvard School of Public Health
HST Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology
IOM Institute of Medicine
IRB Institutional Review Board
LCS Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital
MEMP Medical Engineering and Medical Physics
MGH Massachusetts General Hospital
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPH Masters of Public Health
NEMC Tufts New England Medical Center
NHGRI National Human Genome Research Institute
NLM National Library of Medicine
or Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Partners Partners HealthCare System, Inc., parent of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital