G

GAME Global Alliance for Medical Education

GAO

General Accounting Office (U.S. government)

GAVI Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (World Health Organization)
GCRC Pittman General Clinical Research Center (at UAB)
GEENET Global Environmental Epidemiology Network (World Health Organization)
GFATM Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
GIH Grantmakers In Health

GIS

Geographic Information System  Definition

GOOD

(Alabama) Governor's Office on Disability  (Alabama government)

GPO

Government Printing Office (U.S. government)

GPS

Global Positioning System  Definition

GSA

General Services Administration (U.S. government)

GSS Global Salm-Surv (World Health Organization)

H

HAB

HIV/AIDS Bureau (part of HRSA in the U.S. Department of Health and Human

  Services)

HAC Housing Assistance Council
HACU Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
HCAA Home Care Association of Alabama
HCBS (Medicaid) Home and Community-Based Services (Waiver Program)
HCCA Health Care Compliance Association

HCCA

Healthy Child Care Alabama  (joint project of Alabama government agencies)

HCCA

Healthy Child Care America Campaign  (at University of Illinois, Urbana-

  Champaign)

HCCB Healthcare Compliance Certification Board

HCFA

Health Care Financing Administration (now named CMS, agency of the U.S.

  Department of Health and Human Services)

HCUP

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (AHRQ project in the U.S. Department of Health and Human

  Services)

HEDIS Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set
HERO Hale Empowerment and Revitalization Organization

HFMA

Healthcare Financial Management Association (national organization)

Healthcare Financial Management Association (Alabama chapter)

HHPPS Home Health Prospective Payment System

HHS

Health and Human Services (also DHHS) (U.S. government)

HIFY Health Initiatives for Youth
HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996  Definition

HIPDB

Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (maintained in HRSA)

HIPP

Health Insurance Payment Premiums (Medicaid Program)  Definition

HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease  Definition

HMO

Health Maintenance Organization  Alabama's HMO  Law 

  Alabama's HMO Rules

HPSA Health Professional Shortage Area  Definition
HPTN HIV Prevention Trials Network
HPWA Hispanic Professional Women Association

HQCB

Healthcare Quality Certification Board

HRET

Health Research and Education Trust

HRSA

Health Resources and Services Administration (agency of the U.S.

  Department of Health and Human Services)

HSB

Head Start Bureau  (part of ACF in the U.S. Department of Health and Human

  Services)

HSHC Health Schools, Healthy Communities Program (in HRSA)
HSI Health Services Incorporated  (Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery counties)
HSIPC Head Start Information and Publication Center
HUD (U.S. Department of) Housing and Urban Development
HVTN HIV Vaccine Trials Network

I

IAAMRH International Association of Agricultural Medicine and Rural Health
IACPV Inter-American Coalition for the Prevention of Violence
IAIMS Integrated Advanced Information Management System Grants
IAME Institute for Advanced Medical Education
IAPAC International Association of Physicians in AIDS Cases
IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer

ICD

International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems

  Definition

ICF

International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health  Definition

ICRC Injury Control Research Center (at UAB)

IDA

Individual Development Account, (developed under the Assets for

  Independence Act of 1998)

IDHL International Digest of Health Legislation (World Health Organization)
IDSA Infectious Diseases Society of America

IEDC

International Economic Development Council (created by merging of AEDC

  and CUED)

IFCS Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (World Health Organization)
IFS Individual and Family Supports  (Alabama government)
IHI Institute for Healthcare Improvement

IHS

Indian Health Service (agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human

  Services)

IIHS Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

III

Interstate Identification Index Definition

IIME Institute for Improving Medical Education  (Association of American Medical Colleges)
IOM Institute of Medicine
IMU Index of Medical Underservice Definition
IPCS International Programme on Chemical Safety (World Health Organization)

IRCB

Instructional Resource Center for the Blind  (at the Alabama Institute for the

  Deaf and Blind)

IRHR

Institute for Rural Health Research  (at The University of Alabama)

IRP Institute for Research on Poverty

IRS

Internal Revenue Service  (U.S. government)

IRSA Immigration and Refugee Services of America

ISFT

International Society for Telemedicine

ISMP

Institute for Safe Medication Practices

IWPR

Institute for Women's Policy Research

 

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