| 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 |
