Career Map: Abbreviations
- AHDI: Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity
- BESR: back-end speech recognition
- BR: birth registry
- CMT: Certified Medical Transcriptionist
- CHDS: Certified Healthcare Documentation Specialist
- EHR: electronic health record
- EMPI: enterprise master patient index
- EMR: electronic medical record
- FESR: front-end speech recognition
- GED: general education diploma
- HDS: healthcare documentation specialist
- HIM: health information management
- HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- HL7: Health Level Seven
- IS: information systems
- IT: information technology
- MSA: Managers/Supervisors Alliance
- MT: medical transcriptionist
- MTSO: medical transcription service organization
- PC: personal computer
- QA: quality assurance
- RHDS: Registered Healthcare Documentation Specialist
- RHIA: Registered Health Information Administrator
- RHIT: Registered Health Information Technician
- ROI: release of information
- SR: speech recognition
- WPM: words per minute
