Frequently Used Acronyms
| Term | Means | Description | Related |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 CFR Part 2 | 42 CFR Part 2 Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records | Federal privacy laws and regulations exist to protect patients personal health information. These policies guide healthcare professionals, health IT vendors, and insurance companies to maintain information security and patient confidentiality. | Link |
| AAP | Adults' Access to Preventive/Ambulatory Health Services [HEDIS] | The percentage of members 20 years and older who had an ambulatory or preventive care visit in the measurement year. | |
| AAR | After Action Review | Developed by the U.S. Army, structured review or de-brief for analyzing what happened, why it happened, and how it can be done better. | Link |
| ABCD | Access to Baby and Child Dentistry | The Access to Baby and Child Dentistry program ABCD puts young children on a lifelong path to good oral health. | Link |
| ACES | Automated Client Eligibility System | This system is used by the State of Washington's Department of Social and Health Services. ACESsupports the operations of the department by integrating DSHS programs under a single, client-based, on-line system. | Link |
| ACEs | Adverse Childhood Experiences | Childhood experiences have a tremendous impact on lifelong health and opportunity, thus an important health issue; work focuses on preventing and mitigating the effects | Link |
| ACH | Accountable Community of Health | A group of leaders, community partners, and consumers in a region working together to improve health at the local level. With support from the state, ACHs are coordinating projects and advising agencies on how to best address healthcare needs in their area. WA has nine. | Link |
| ADI | Area Deprivation Index | Measure's the level of deprivation in an area. The Area Deprivation Index (ADI) allows for rankings of neighborhoods by socioeconomic status disadvantage in a region of interest (e.g. at the state or national level). Health systems and healthcare providers can use the ADI to target program delivery by geographic location based on the area of greatest disadvantage. For example, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently using the ADI to target program delivery of the Everyone with Diabetes Counts program. | Link |
| AHRQ | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | AHRQ invests in research and evidence to make health care safer and improve quality | Link |
| AIAN | American Indian or an Alaska Native | According to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), American Indian or Alaska Native refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment. | Link |
| AIM | Analytics, Interoperability, and Measurement. AIM Team | Analytics, Interoperability, and Measurement (AIM), stands for: analytic tools, interoperable systems, and standardized measurement strategies. AIM is a strategy to: - Work collaboratively across state agencies and public and private sector partners to break down data-related silos. - Address long-term needs for health data management solutions, services and tools. - Serve as a key tool to implement population health improvement strategies around Washington. | Link |
| AIMS | Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions, University of Washington | The AIMS Center (University of Washington) believes there is no health without mental health and promotes medical and behavioral health professionals working together to provide collaborative, whole-person care | Link |
| AMDG | Agency Medical Directors' Group | mission is to maximize the value, quality, safety, and delivery of state purchased health care. | Link |
| AODD | Alcohol or other drug Dependancy | Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him or her | Link |
| APDE | Assessment, Policy Development & Evaluation | The Assessment, Policy Development and Evaluation Unit (APDE) performs assessment and evaluation of population-based data and interventions, integrating qualitative analysis, and policy development. | Link |
| APM | Alternative Payment Model | A payment approach that rewards providers for delivering high-quality and cost-efficient care. | Link |
| ARM | Analytics, Research and Management | ||
| AUDIT | Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test | The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a 10-item screening tool developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assess alcohol consumption, drinking behaviors, and alcohol-related problems. | Link |
| AV | Achievement Value | A number assigned to each ACH based on how many projects they are pursuing | Link |
| BHO | Behavioral Health Organization | Thurston-Mason BHO and Great Rivers BHO are the mental health and substance use disorder services for Medicaid beneficiaries in the CPAA region. | Link |
| BHT | Better Health Together | An Accountable Community of Health based out of Spokane, Wa that consists of 6 Counties | Link |
| BLS | U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics | A unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics and serves as a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. | Link |
| BoD | Burden of Disease | Disease burden is the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators. It is often quantified in terms of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), both of which quantify the number of years lost due to disease (YLDs). | |
| BREE | The Bree Collaborative | provide a mechanism through which public and private health care stakeholders can work together to improve quality, health outcomes, and cost effectiveness of care in Washington State. | Link |
| BRFSS | Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System | The nation's premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. | Link |
| CAP | Community Action Program AKA Community Action Agencies | Regional organization of social services to help lessen the impact of poverty | |
| CBO | Community Based Organization | Are nonprofit groups that work at a local level to improve life for residents. The focus is to build equality across society in all streams - health care, environment, quality of education, access to technology, access to spaces and information for the disabled, to name but a few. | Link |
| C-CDA | Consolidated-Clinical Document Architecture | A popular, flexible markup standard developed by Health Level 7 International (HL7 ) that defines the structure of certain medical records, such as discharge summaries and progress notes, as a way to better exchange this information between providers and patients. | Link |
| CCHE | Center for Community Health and Evaluation | Designs and implements evaluations for foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies to help assess the impact of community investments. | Link |
| CD | Communicable disease | An infectious disease transmissible (as from person to person) by direct contact | Link |
| CDC | Center for Disease Control and Prevention | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency that conducts and supports health promotion, prevention and preparedness activities in the United States, with the goal of improving overall public health | Link |
| CDR | Clinical Data Repository, Link4Health | Initiative from the Health Care Authority (HCA). CDR aggregates clinical information from Disparate HERs in one easily accesible location. More info: OneHealthPort | Link |
| CDSMEP | Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Program | CDSMP is an effective self-management education program for people with chronic health problems. | Link |
| CEHRT | Certified Electronic Health Record Technology | In order to capture and share patient data efficiently, health care providers need an EHR that stores data in a structured format. Structured data allows health care providers to easily retrieve and transfer patient information, and use the EHR in ways that can aid patient care | Link |
| CHAT | Community Health Assessment Tool | The Community Health Assessment Tool (CHAT) provides a secure, online query system for population-based data sets maintained by the Washington State Department of Health. The tool allows users to conduct analyses for community health assessment. | Link |
| CHOICE | Consortium of Health Systems Organized in Collaborative Effort | CHOICE is the bricks and mortar office, a neutral convener and facilitator, also the administrative organization for CPAA | Link |
| CHS | Community Health Services, PHSKC | ||
| CHSI | Community Health Status Indicators Project | A collection of nationally available health indicators for counties, helping to present a total picture of local health. A resource for monitoring and analyzing community health status and its determinants at the county level. The goal of CHSI is to give local public health agencies another tool for improving their communitys health by identifying data resources and facilitating the setting of priorities. CHSI supports the mission and goals of public health, the 10 essential public health services, Healthy People 2010 initiatives, and evidence-based policy and research. | Link |
| CMS | Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services | Part of the Department of Health and Human Services, previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration, CMS is a federal agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid | |
| CORE | Providence - Center for Research and Education | CORE is an independent research team focused on improving the health of underserved populations | |
| CPAA | Cascade Pacific Action Alliance | An Accountable Community of Health based out of Olympia, Wa that consists of 7 Counties | Link |
| CPDPS | Chronic Illness and Disability Payment System | A diagnostic classification system that Medicaid programs can use to make health-based capitated payments for TANF and disabled Medicaid beneficiaries. | Link |
| CQI | Continuous Quality Improvement | A quality management process that encourages all health care team members to continuously ask the questions, How are we doing? and Can we do it better? | Link |
| CQM | Clinical Quality Measurement | Are tools that helpmeasure and track the quality of health care services that Eligible Professionals, Eligible Hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals provide. | Link |
| CTC | Communities That Care | At the University of Washington Center for Communities That Care, we coach communities across the country through an evidence-based, prevention science process that reduces levels of youth problems and helps them thrive. | Link |
| CVD | Cardiovascular Disease | Heart and blood vessel disease also called heart disease includes numerous problems, many of which are related to a process called atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a condition that develops when a substance called plaque builds up in the walls of the arteries. | Link |
| DAJD | King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention | ||
| DAST | Drug Abuse Screening Test | DAST was designed to be used in a variety of settings to provide a quick index of drug-related problems. | Link |
| DCHS | King County Department of Community and Human Services | ||
| DDA | Developmental Disabilities Administration | People with developmental disabilities and their families are valued in our state. Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) programs are aimed to help individuals with developmental disabilities and their families get services and supports based on need and choice. | Link |
| DDI | Design, Develipment and Implementation | Phases of strategic planning | Link |
| DEI | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Council serves as the states workforce diversity, equity and inclusion advisory and coordinating group. Working collaboratively with others, the council leads, supports and promotes strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across state government focusing on the states internal workforce to serve Washington State. | Link |
| DOE | Department of Education | "Establish policy for, administer and coordinate most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights." The Department of Education does not establish schools or colleges. | Link |
| DOH | WA State Department of Health | WA State Department of Health helps prevent illness and injury, promote healthy places to live and work, provide information to help make good decisions, and ensure WA is prepared for emergencies. | Link |
| DSA | Data Sharing Agreement | A formal contract that documents what data are being shared and how the data can be used. | Link |
| DSHS | WA State Department of Social and Health Services | WAs social services department with the following administrations: Aging and Long-term support, Behavioral Health, Children, Developmental Disabilities, Economic Services, Rehabilitation, Financial Services, and Services and Enterprise Support | Link |
| DSRIP | Delivery System Reform Incentive Program | A waiver that allows WA State to receive federal matching funds to operate its Medicaid program; DSRIP efforts rely on savings to be reinvested back into the states healthcare delivery system through performance-based payments to achieve three objectives: improved access to care, improved quality of care, and improved health outcomes. | |
| DSRIP FMP | DSRIP Funding and Mechanics Protocol | Describes the role and function of standardized ACH reports to be submitted quarterly to the state, allocation formula and parameters for incentive payments, the states process to develop an evaluation plan, and incentive contingencies. | Link |
| DY | Demonstration Year | Aligned with CMS approval of Medicaid Transformation, the Healthier Washington Medicaid Transformation demonstration years began January 9, 2017 and continue through December 31, 2021 | Link |
| DURSA | Data Use Reciprocal Support Agreement | The DURSA is a comprehensive, multi-party trust agreement that is entered into voluntarily by public and private organizations (eHealth Exchange Participants) that desire to engage in electronic health information exchange with each other as part of the eHealth Exchange. | Link |
| DQA | Dental Quality Alliance | Established by the American Dental Association to develop performance measures for oral health care | Link |
| ED | Emergency Department | Department of a hospital responsible for patients in need of immediate care | |
| EDIE | Emergency Department Information Exchange | EDIE improves patient outcomes by following the patient across all points of care to prompt and inform physician action. This ensures that each provider operates from the same playbook every time, even when theyre not playing on the same field. The result? Better care and better outcomes for patients. | Link |
| EHR | Electronic health record | Making health information availible electronically | Link |
| EP | Elidgible Population | All beneficiaries attributed to the ACH, according to record of residence, who qualify for the metric (not limited to partnering providers or service sites). | |
| ERDC | WA State Education Research & Data Center | ||
| EQRO | External Quality Review Organization | The analysis and evaluation by an external quality review organization (EQRO) of aggregated information onquality, timeliness, and access to the health care services that an MCO or PIHP, or their contractors, furnish to Medicaid recipients. | Link |
| FE | Financial Executor | Link | |
| FUH | Follow-Up After Hospitalization | Used very often with Mental Helath: Member's discharge from an inpatient hospitalization with a mental health diagnosis | Link |
| GAD-7 | Generalized Anxiety Disorder -7 Items | a self-reported questionnaire for screening and severity measuring ofgeneralized anxiety disorder (GAD) | Link |
| GC | Greater Columbia | An Accountable Community of Health based out of Pasco, Wa that consists of 9 Counties | Link |
| GTG | Gap To Goal | Performance expectations based on the difference between ACH reference baseline year performance and the absolute benchmark (set at the national 90th percentile for Medicaid). | Link |
| HBE | WA Health Benefit Exchange | Link | |
| HCA | Health Care Authority | WA State Health Care Authority purchases health care for more than 2 million WA residents through two programs WA Apple Heath (Medicaid) and Public Employee Benefits Board (PEBB). | Link |
| HCP LAN | Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network | Link | |
| HCAHPS | Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems | A patient satisfaction survey required by CMS (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) for all hospitals in the United States. The Survey is for adult inpatients, excluding psychiatric patients | Link |
| HCBS | Home and Community Based Services | HCBS provide opportunities for Medicaid beneficiaries to receive services in their own home or community rather than institutions or other isolated settings. These programs serve a variety of targeted populations groups, such as people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, and/or mental illnesses. | Link |
| HCUP | Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project | A family of databases, software tools and related products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by AHRQ. | Link |
| HEDIS | Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set | A tool used by more than 90 percent of America's health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service | Link |
| HH | Health Home | ||
| HHC | King County Hospitals for a Healthier Community | ||
| HIE/HIT | Health Information Exchange/Health Information Technology | Health care information accessed and shared electronicallyHIT: Health Information Technology is the range of technologies to store, share, and analyze health information, including clinical and claims related data HIE: Health information exchange is the electronic exchange of health information to facilitate delivery system and payment transformation, care coordination and improved health outcomes | |
| HILN | Health Innovation Leadership Network | Providers, business, health plans, consumers, governments, and other key partners who are helping accelerate the efforts of Healthier Washington. | |
| HISP | Health Information Service Provider | is an organization that manages security and transport for health information exchange among health care entities or individuals using the Direct standard for transport | Link |
| HL7 | Health Level Seven | A non-profit organization involved in the development of international healthcare informatics interoperability standards | Link |
| HMA | Health Management Associates | A healthcare consulting firm providing technical support and project management for CPAA. | |
| HUB | Practice Transformation Support Hub | An investment area of Healthier Washington and managed by the WA State Department of Health; the Hub delivers technical assistance and support to focus on whole-person care by achieving bi-directional and behavioral health integration | Link |
| HWC | Healthy Washington Coalition | The Healthy Washington Coalition is dedicated to ensuring that Washington State has quality, affordable health care coverage for all of its residents | Link |
| HYS | Healthy Youth Survey | ||
| IA | Independent Assessor | State-contracted entity that participates in ongoing monitoring of ACH projects and milestone achievement, calculates achievement values, and determines incentive payment amounts earned for each reporting period. | Link |
| IAPD-U | Implementation Advance Planning Document Update | A document or record submitted annually (Annual APDU) to report project status and/or postimplementation cost-savings, or on an as needed (As Needed APDU) basis, to request funding approval for project continuation when significant project changes are anticipated | Link |
| IEE | Independent External Evaluator | Link | |
| IGT | Intergovernmental Transfer | Link | |
| IHCP | Indian Health Care Provider (Protocol) | Link | |
| IHME | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | ||
| IHS | Indian Health Services | Programs specifically created to address particular Native health issues, funded through grants and contracts from the IHS | |
| IMC | Integrated Managed Care | ||
| IOS | Improvement Over Self | ||
| IPA | In Person Assister | Now the Washington Health Benefits Exchange Navigator program; administered by CHOICE, navigators provide free enrollment assistance services to clients using Washington Healthplanfinder. | |
| IP | Implementation Plan | Plan drawn up on how a project will be implemented | Link |
| ISA | Interoperability Standards Advisory | Represents the model by which the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will coordinate the identification, assessment, and determination of Recognized interoperability standards and implementation specifications for industry use to fulfill specific clinical health IT interoperability needs. | Link |
| IT | Improvement Target | The target mark that will show improvement over previous marks met. | Link |
| ITU | Indian Health Services, Tribal Health Programs, and Urban Indian Programs | Programs specifically created to address particular Native health issues, funded through grants and contracts from the IHS | |
| KCIT | King County Information Technology | ||
| KING | King County | An Accountable Community of Health based out of Seattle, Wa that consists of 1 County | |
| LARC | Long-Acting Reversible Contraception | are methods of birth control that provide effective contraception for an extended period without requiring user action | Link |
| LCSW | Licensed Clinical Social Worker | Sub-sector within the field of social work works with clients in order to help deal with issues involving mental and emotional health | |
| LMHC/LCMHC | Licensed Mental Health Counselor/Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor | Highly skilled professional who combine traditional psychotherapy with a practical, problem-solving approach | |
| MACRA | Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act | ||
| MAT | Medication-Assisted Treatment | Medication-assisted treatment (MAT), including opioid treatment programs (OTPs), combines behavioral therapy and medications to treat substance use disorders. | Link |
| MCH | Maternal & Child Health | Health status, outcomes, and health behaviors of pregnant women, infants, children, and adolescents | |
| MCO | Managed Care Organization | State-contracted organizations that provide access to health care services for Medicaid beneficiaries. | |
| MeHAF | Maine Health Access Foundation | The Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF) is the states largest private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit health care foundation. Our mission is to promote access to quality health care, especially for those who are uninsured and underserved, and improve the health of everyone in Maine. | Link |
| MeHAF-SSA | Maine Health Access Foundation Site Self Assessment | The Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF) is the states largest private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit health care foundation. Our mission is to promote access to quality health care, especially for those who are uninsured and underserved, and improve the health of everyone in Maine. | Link |
| MHCADSD | King County Mental Health, Chemical Abuse and Dependency Services Division | ||
| MMIS | Medicaid Management Information System | ||
| MTD/MTP | Medicaid Transformation Demonstration/Medicaid Transformation Project | A 5-year agreement with the federal government to allow WA State to test new approaches to providing health coverage and care; investment for regional health system transformation projects that benefit Medicaid recipients. | Link |
| MY | Measurement Year | Link | |
| NACCHO | National Association of County and City Health Officials | ||
| NC | North Central | An Accountable Community of Health based out of Wenatchee, Wa that consists of 4 Counties | |
| NCQA | National Committee for Quality Assurance | A private, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality | Link |
| NEAR Science | Neuroscience, epigenetics, ACEs, and Resilience | Cluster of fields of study that gives a holistic picture of a persons experiences over his or her lifetime | |
| NEPHTN | National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network | ||
| NHPI | Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | ||
| NQF | National Quality Forum | Committed to helping our nation achieve better and affordable care, and improving the overall health of Americans | Link |
| NS | North Sound | An Accountable Community of Health based out of Bellingham, Wa that consists of 5 Counties | |
| OFM | WA State Office of Financial Management | OFM's role in supplying vital information, fiscal services and policy support that the Governor, Legislature and state agencies need to serve the people of Washington. | Link |
| OIC | WA State Office of Insurance Commissioner | The Washington state Office of the Insurance Commissioner protects insurance consumers and oversees the insurance industry, making sure insurance companies follow the rules and people get the coverage they've paid for. | Link |
| OLYM | Olympic | An Accountable Community of Health based out of Port Townsend, Wa that consists of 3 Counties | |
| OSPI | Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction | Is the primary agency charged with overseeing K-12 public education in Washington state. Led by State School Superintendent Chris Reykdal, OSPI works with the states 295 school districts to administer basic education programs and implement education reform on behalf of more than one million public school students. OSPI is housed in the Old Capitol Building in Olympia. | Link |
| OUD | Opioid Use Disorder | Symptoms of opioid use disorders include strong desire for opioids, inability to control or reduce use, continued use despite interference with major obligations or social functioning, use of larger amounts over time, development of tolerance, spending a great deal of time to obtain and use opioids, and withdrawal symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing use, such as negative mood, nausea or vomiting, muscle aches, diarrhea, fever, and insomnia. | Link |
| P4P P4R | Pay-for-Performance / Pay-for-Reporting | The ACH will be held accountable and awarded incentive funds based on performance on a P4R or P4P basis in the region from DY 3 through DY 5. The majority of the P4R reporting metrics will be provided by the ACH and its partnering provider organizations. ACH reported metrics will be provided as part of their semi-annual report submissions. The majority of P4P targets will be provided by the State and are compiled on an annual basis. | Link |
| PAV | Percentage Achievement Value | Represents the proportion of total available achievement values earned for the relevant payment period for the project or VBP by an ACH or MCO, used to determine the incentives earned out of the maximum possible funding. Calculated by dividing the weighted total of possible achievement values for the project in a payment year. | Link |
| PCMH | Patient Centered Medicaid Home | The medical home model holds promise as a way to improve health care in America by transforming how primary care is organized and delivered. | Link |
| PCMH-A | Patient Centered Medicaid Home Assessment | The PCMH-A is intended to help sites understand their current level of medical homeness and identify opportunities for improvement. The PCMH-A can also help sites track progress toward practice transformation when it is completed at regular intervals. | Link |
| PDMP & TTAC | Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Training and Technical Assistance Center | Link | |
| PHC | Public Health Center | ||
| PHQ-9 | Patient Health Questionnaire | The PHQ-9 is a multipurpose instrument for screening, diagnosing, monitoring and measuring the severity of depression | Link |
| PHSKC | Public Health Seattle & King County | ||
| Pierce | Pierce County | An Accountable Community of Health based out of Tacoma, Wa that consists of 1 county | Link |
| PMCC | Performance Measures Coordinating Committee | ||
| PMP (Washington State) | Prescription Monitoring Program | (2007) created Washingtons PMP also known as Prescription Review. The program was created with the purpose to improve patient care and stop prescription drug misuse by collecting dispensing records for Schedule II, III, IV and V drugs and making the information available to medical providers and pharmacists as a patient care tool. Program rules, WAC 246-470, took effect August 27, 2011. The program started data collection from all dispensers October 7, 2011 | Link |
| PMP (Federal) | Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (Federal Level) | Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) continue to be among the most promising state-level interventions to improve opioid prescribing, inform clinical practice, and protect patients at risk. Although findings are mixed, evaluations of PDMPs have illustrated changes in prescribing behaviors, use of multiple providers by patients, and decreased substance abuse treatment admissions. States have implemented a range of ways to make PDMPs easier to use and access, and these changes have significant potential for ensuring that the utility and promise of PDMPs are realized. | Link |
| PMPM | Per Member Per Month Health Care | Applies to a revenue or cost for each enrolledmember each month. The number of units of something divided by member months. Often used to describe premiums or capitated payments to providers, but can also refer to the revenue or cost for each enrolled member each month. | Link |
| PMW | Performance Measurement Workgroup | ||
| PRAMS | Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System | A survey of new mothers conducted by Washington State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | Link |
| PRISM | Predictive Risk Intelligence System | Decision support tool designed to support care management interventions for high-risk Medicaid patients | Link |
| PSA | Primary Service Area | Geographic areas that are self-sufficient markets of primary care. These areas are designed in a manner such that the majority of patients living in these areas use primary care servicesform within the area. | |
| PSB | King County Office of Performance, Strategy, and Budget | The Office of Performance, Strategy and Budget (PSB) provides comprehensive planning, management, budgeting and performance assessment for King County government. | Link |
| PY | Performace Year | Indicates the measurement year in which performance is measured and for which incentives are being earned. | |
| QI | Quality Improvement | Quality Improvement is a systematic, formal approach to the analysis of practice performance and efforts to improve performance. | Link |
| QIP | Quality Incentive Program | Hospitals in Washington State have the opportunity to earn a one percent incentive payment under the Medicaid Quality Incentive Program. The incentive is included in the legislation creating the new Safety Net Assessment program. The payment is funded in part from the hospitals contribution to the Safety Net Assessment and federal matching dollars. | Link |
| QIS | Quality Improvement Score | A composite score representing quality attainment and improvement on measures. | Link |
| RDA | Research & Data Analysis Division | Link | |
| RFP | Request For Proposals | A document that solicits proposal, often made through a bidding process, by an agency or company interested in procurement of a commodity, service, or valuable asset, to potential suppliers to submit businessproposals | |
| RHIP | Regional Health Improvement Plan | Goals include improving health equity and health outcomes, whole person care, and reducing per-capita health care costs while improving quality of care. Priorities include healthcare access, improving care coordination and integration, preventing and managing chronic disease, preventing and mitigating adverse childhood experiences, and enhancing economic and educational opportunities. | |
| RHNI | Regional Health Needs Inventory | ||
| RSN | Regional Support Network | ||
| RWJF | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds a wide array of programs which are working to help build a national Culture of Health. | |
| SAMHSA | SubstanceAbuse and Mental Health Service Administration | agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation | Link |
| SAR | Semi-Annual Report | Link | |
| SBIRT | Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment | an evidence-based practice used to identify, reduce, and prevent problematic use, abuse, and dependence on alcohol and illicit drugs | |
| SCFNUKA | Nuka System | Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska Native-owned, nonprofit health care organization serving nearly 65,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley and 55 rural villages in the Anchorage Service Unit. | Link |
| SDH, SDOH | Social Determinants of Health | Social determinants of health are the structural determinants and conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. They include factors like socioeconomic status, education, the physical environment, employment, and social support networks, as well as access to health care. | Link |
| SDM | Shared Decision Making | Shared Decision Making is a collaborative process that allows patients and their providers to make health care decisions together, taking into account the best scientific evidence available, as well as the patients values and preferences. | Link |
| SED | Seriously Emotinally Disturbed | A child who possesses a diagnosable, serious disorder under DSM-IV such as pervasive developmental disorder, childhood schizophrenia, schizophrenia of adult-type manifesting in adolescence, conduct disorder, affective disorder, other disruptive behaviors, or other disorders with serious medical implications such as eating disorders, or persistent involvement with alcohol or drugs | Link |
| SIM | State Innovation Model | Initiative of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; partners with WA State to develop sustainable models of multi-payer payment and delivery reform. | |
| SMART Goals | Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely | Criteria guide to set objectives | |
| SMD | State Medicaid Director | oversees the Washington Apple Health (Medicaid) program | Link |
| SMI | Serious Mental Illness | Schizophrenia,Paranoid and other psychotic disorders, Bipolar disorders (hypomanic, manic, depressive, and mixed), Major depressive disorders (single episode or recurrent), Schizoaffective disorders (bipolar or depressive), Pervasive developmental disorders, Obsessive-compulsive disorders, Depression in childhood and adolescence, Panic disorder, Post traumatic stress disorders (acute, chronic, or with delayed onset) | Link |
| SSO | Single Sign-On | ||
| STC | Special Terms and Conditions | Set forth in detail the nature, character, and extent of federal involvement in the Healthier Washington Medicaid Transformation, the states implementation of expenditure authorities, and the states obligations to CMS during the five-year period. | Link |
| STD | Sexually Transmitted Disease | An infectious illness that is transmitted through unprotected sexual activity an infectious illness that is transmitted through unprotected sexual activity | |
| SUD | Substance Use Disorders | Substance use disorders occur when the recurrent use of alcohol and/or drugs causes clinically and functionally significant impairment, such as health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home. | Link |
| SUDP | Substance Use During Pregnancy | a critical public health concern that is linked with several harmful maternal and fetal consequences | Link |
| SWOB | Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and barriers | ||
| SWOT Analysis | Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats | Structured planning method that evaluates those four elements of a project | |
| SWWA | Southwest Washington | An Accountable Community of Health based out of Vancouver, Wa that consists of 3 Counties | |
| TA | Technical Assistance | Link | |
| TARGET | Treatment & Assessment Report Generation Tool | ||
| TAV | Total Achievement Value | Total of the summed achievement values for an ACH for a given performance period. | Link |
| TEFCA | Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement | A Common Sense Approach to Achieving Health Information Interoperability | Link |
| TPL | Third Party Liability | Link | |
| UIHP | Urban Indian Health Program | The Urban Indian Health Program (UIHP) consists of 34 non-profit 501 (c)(3) programs nationwide. The programs are funded through grants and contracts from the I.H.S | Link |
| VBP | Value-Based Purchasing | Part of ongoing work to structure Medicaid payment systems to reward providers for the quality of care; pays for healthier patients, rather than volume of services | Link |
| VS | Vital statistics | Statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages and divorces. | Link |
| WA | Washington State | ||
| WA-APCD | Statewide All-Payer Health Care Claims Database | In 2014, the Washington State Legislature passed landmark legislation that directed the Office of Financial Management (OFM) to establish the Washington State All-Payer Claims Database (WA-APCD). The database will serve as a vital resource for health care claims in Washington state. | Link |
| WA DSHS-RDA | Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Research and Data Analysis | Link | |
| WAHA | Whatcom Alliance for Health Advancement | ||
| WASIS | Washington State Identification System | Link | |
| WDSE | Washington State Department of Ecology | department administers laws and regulations pertaining to the areas of water quality, water rights and water resources, shoreline management, toxics clean-up, nuclear waste, hazardous waste and air quality. It also conducts monitoring and scientific assessments. | Link |
| WDSF | Washington Dental Service Foundation | A nonprofit funded by Delta Dental of WA, now Arcora Foundation; works statewide to eliminate oral health disparities, prevent oral health disease, and improve overall health. | |
| WEMSIS | Washington EMS Information System | Washington State's prehospital data repository for electronic patient care records | Link |
| WHA | WA Health Alliance | ||
| WPDP | Washington Prescription Drug Program | We ensure the value of prescription drug purchasing by the state. The Washington Prescription Drug Program provides prescription information and assistance for the residents of Washington. | Link |
| WSCR | Washington State Cancer Registry | ||
| WSHA | Washington State Hospital Association | Represents 107 hospitals and health systems; represents their members by advocating at the state and federal levels | |
| WTN | Washington Tracking Network | ||
| YBH | Youth Behavioral Health Coordination Project | CPAAs project focused on identifying children with behavioral health challenges as early as possible, in both education and healthcare settings, and connect at-risk children with appropriate intervention and treatment services. | |
| YMPEP | Youth Marijuana Prevention and Education Program | CPAAs program focused on community outreach and education and preventing underage marijuana use |