| API | Application Programming Interface |
| BAU | Business As Usual |
| BCDR | Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery |
| CCG | Clinical Commissioning Group |
| CCIO | Chief Clinical Information Officer |
| CCN | Change Control Notice |
| CDV | Clinical Document Viewer |
| CHIE | Care and Health Information Exchange (Hampshire & Isle of Wight) |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer |
| COO | Chief Operating Officer |
| DC | Dorset Council |
| DMAN | Document Management |
| DPIA | Data Protection Impact Assessment |
| DPR | Digital Patient Record |
| DQ | Data Quality |
| DQIA | Data Quality Impact Assessment |
| ED | Emergency Department |
| EMPI | Enterprise Master Patient Index |
| EPR | Electronic Patient Record |
| EqIA | Equality Impact Assessment |
| FDD | Functional Design Document |
| HSC | Health & Social Care |
| IDCR | Integrated Digital Care Record |
| JAC | Software company now called Wellsky |
| JIRA | Jira is a piece of software that we use to record any issues that need fixing in DCR. They can be tracked in Jira and it records who reported it and when and a description of the issue. Also, who is fixing it and when it is fixed, when it is tested and if it fails or passes |
| LHCRE | Local Health and Care Record |
| LMC | Local Medical Council |
| MIG | Medical Interoperability Gateway |
| NEMS | National Event Management Service |
| NRL | National Record Locator |
| OAISP | Overarching Information Sharing Protocol (predecessor to DISC) |
| OH | Orion Health |
| OOH | Out of hours |
| PAS | Patient Administration System |
| PDS | Personal Demographics Service |
| PHM | Population Health Management |
| PHR | Patient Health Records or Patient Held Record |
| PIA | Privacy Impact Assessment |
| PISA | Personal Information Sharing Agreement |
| POPP | Partnership for Older People Programme |
| PRSB | Professional Records Standards Body |
| PWA | Progressive Web Application |
| RAG | Red, Amber, Green status |
| RBAC | Role Based Access Control (Users, roles and permissions) |
| RBCH | Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals |
| RPM | Remote Patient Monitoring |
| SAR | Subject Access Request - a personal right for someone to see what is held about them and who has had access |
| SBAR | Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (Briefing paper to present proposals) |
| SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol |
| SLT | Strategic Leadership Team |
| SME | Subject Matter Expert |
| SSO | Single Sign On |
| SWAST | South West Ambulance Services Trust |
| TOR | Terms Of Reference |
| TPP | SystmOne. Software used by the majority of GPs within Dorset |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator (the address of a World Wide Web page) |
