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Data Content Committee: See Designated Data Content Committee.

Data Council: A coordinating body within the DHHS that has high-level responsibility for overseeing the implementation of the A/S provisions of HIPAA.

Data Dictionary (DD): A document or system that characterizes the data content of a system.

Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA): A body that provides administrative services to X12 and several other standards-related groups.

Data Mapping: The process of matching one set of data elements or individual code values to their closest equivalents in another set of them.

Data Model: A conceptual model of the information needed to support a business function or process.

DCC: Data Content Committee.

DD: Data Dictionary, as in HIPAA DD.

Dental Content Committee: An organization, hosted by the American Dental Association, that maintains the data element specifications for dental billing. The ADA has a formal consultative role under HIPAA for all transactions affecting dental health care services.

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS): The Federal Government Department that has overall responsibility for implementing HIPAA.

Designated Code Set: A medical or administrative code set, which DHHS has designated for use in one or more of the HIPAA standards.

DCC: An organization which DHHS has designated for oversight of the business data content of one or more of the HIPAA-mandated transaction standards.

Designated Standard: A standard, which DHHS has designated for use under the authority provided by HIPAA.

DHHS: The US Department of Health and Human Services.

DICOM: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine  (DICOM): A standard for communicating images, such as x-rays, in a digitized form. It could be included in the claim attachments standards.

DISA: The Data Interchange Standards Association.

EBFM - Electronic Business Flow Management: A form of procedural and control for deployment of HIPAA transactions.

EC: Electronic Commerce.

EDI: Electronic Data Interchange.

EDIFACT: Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport.

EFT: Electronic Funds Transfer.

EHNAC: The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission.

Electronic Commerce (EC): The exchange of business information by electronic means.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): This usually means X12 and similar variable-length formats for the electronic exchange of structured data. It is sometimes used more broadly to mean any electronic exchange of formatted data.

Electronic Data Interchange for Administration,

Commerce, and Transport (EDIFACT): An international EDI format, sometimes referred to as UN/EDIFACT, since the United Nations has a role in it.  Interactive X12 transactions use the EDIFACT message syntax.

Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC): An organization that accredits healthcare clearinghouses.

Electronic Media Claims (EMC): This term usually refers to a flat file format used to transmit or transport claims, such as the 192-byte UB-92 Institutional EMC format and the 320-byte Professional EMC NSF.

Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA): Any of several electronic formats for explaining the payments of health care claims.

EMC: Electronic Media Claims.

ERA: Electronic Remittance Advice.

FAQ(s): Frequently Asked Question(s).

Flat File: This term usually refers to a file that consists of a series of fixed-length records that include some sort of record type code.