ACA |
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act |
ACOSOG |
American College of Surgeons Oncology Group |
ACRIN |
American College of Radiology Imaging Network |
AHRQ |
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
AIM |
Annotation and Image Markup |
ARPANET |
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
ARRA |
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
ASCO |
American Society of Clinical Oncology |
ATM |
automated teller machine |
BRIDG |
Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group |
caBIG® |
Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid |
CALGB |
Cancer and Leukemia Group B |
CARE |
Comprehensive Accrual REsource |
CDC |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
CER |
comparative effectiveness research |
CTEP |
Cancer Therapy and Evaluation Program |
CTMS |
clinical trial management system |
CTSA |
Clinical Translational Science Award |
CTSU |
Cancer Trials Support Unit |
DNA |
deoxyribonucleic acid |
ECOG |
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group |
EHR |
electronic health record |
ELISA |
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
eMAR |
electronic medication administration record |
ER |
estrogen receptor |
FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
FDA |
Food and Drug Administration |
GCP |
Good Clinical Practice |
GEO |
Gene Expression Omnibus |
GPS |
global positioning system |
HbA1c |
hemoglobin A1c |
HER2 |
human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 |
HHS |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
HIPAA |
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
HITECH |
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act |
i2b2 |
Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside |
IOM |
Institute of Medicine |
iPS cells |
induced pluripotent stem cells |
IRB |
institutional review board |
IT |
information technology |
NCBI |
National Center for Biotechnology Information |
NCCN |
National Comprehensive Cancer Network |
NCCTG |
North Central Cancer Treatment Group |
NCI |
National Cancer Institute |
NHD |
Optum Natural History of Disease |
NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
NIMH |
National Institute of Mental Health |
NSABP |
National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
OCRe |
Ontology of Clinical Research |
ONC |
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology |
QOPI |
Quality Oncology Practice Initiative |
P4 |
predictive, preventive, personalized, and participatory |
PACeR |
Partnership to Advance Clinical electronic Research |
PCAST |
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology |
PCORI |
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute |
RCT |
randomized, controlled trial |
REDCap |
Research Electronic Data Capture |
RNA |
ribonucleic acid |
RTOG |
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group |
SEER |
Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program |
SHARP |
Strategic HIT Advanced Resource Projects |
siRNA |
small interfering RNA |
SPARKS |
Synergistic Patient and Research Knowledge Systems |
SRM |
selected reaction monitoring |
SWOG |
formerly the Southwest Oncology Group |
TCGA |
The Cancer Genome Atlas |
TGen |
Translational Genomics Research Institute |
UNOS |
United Network for Organ Sharing |