ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACC Australian Casemix Clinical Committee
AHMAC Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council
AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AN-DRG Australian National – Diagnosis Related Group
CBAHI Central Board for Accreditation of Health Care Institution
CCHI Council of Cooperative Health Insurance
CCSA Clinical Coders’ Society of Australia
CSAC Coding Standards Advisory Committee
CHS Council of Health Services
CPT Physicians’ Current Procedural Terminology
DHFS Department of Health and Family Services
DVA Department of Veterans’ Affairs
H-ICDA Hospital Adaptation of ICDA
HIMAA Health Information Management Association of Australia
ICD International Classification of Diseases
ICD-7 International Classification of Diseases – Seventh Revision
ICD-8 International Classification of Diseases – Eight Revision
ICD-9 International Classification of Diseases – Ninth Revision
ICD-9-CM International Classification of Diseases – Ninth Revision –Clinical Modification
ICD-10 International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems – Tenth Revision
ICD-10-AM International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems – Tenth Revision – Australia Modification
ICDA International Classification of Diseases Adapted for Indexing of Hospital Records by Diseases and Operations
ICPM International Classification of Procedures in Medicine.
IT Information Technology
MBS Medicare Benefits Schedule
MBS-E Medicare Benefits Schedule – Extended
MOH Ministry of Health
NCC National Coding Centre
NCCH National Centre for Classification in Health
NHIMG National Health Information Management Group
OPCS-4 Classification of Surgical Operations and Procedures, Fourth Revision
OTEN Open Training and Education Network
SCFHS Saudi Commission for Health Specialties
SNDO Standard Nomenclature of Diseases and Operations
WHO World Health Organization