This list which at one time existed at http://www.wimug.org/Module_Mnemonics.htm is copied below for your convenience. The list specifies which platform an application works with (M - MAGIC, CS - Client Server) or which other vendor an application belongs to (LSS).
WiMUG stands for Wisconsin Meditech Users Group.
| Mnemonic | Name | Description | Platform | Link(s) | ||
| A&E | Accident and Emergency | Subset of UK ADM | UKonly | http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsMagicUkAE.htm | ||
| ABS | Abstracting | Collects and Reports patient information | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSAbstract.htm | ||
| ADM | Admissions | Patient Registration | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSReg.htm | ||
| AOM | Ambulatory Order Mgmt | Prescription writing and management tool plus other features. Also referred to as to RXM. Part of PCM and EDM suites. | LSS | http://intranet/iedm/praom.htm http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsLSSAOM.htm |
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| AP | Accounts Payable | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSAcctPay.htm | |||
| ARM | Authorization & Referral Mgmt | Included in MPM Suite OR sold separately; A streamlined approach for managing authorizations and referrals. | CS | http://intranet/icws/pages/armdocs/m_arm.htm http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsLSSARM.htm |
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| B/AR | Billing/Accounts Receivable |
Accommodates multi-entity accounting and assists with every aspect of a health care organization's billing and collections. | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSBAR.htm | ||
| BBK | Blood Bank | Part of LIS | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSBB.htm | ||
| BF | Budgeting and Forecasting | Purchasable option with ESS; Allows sites to create and manage their budgets. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSBF.htm | ||
| BHxxx | Behavioral Health | For Example BHNMI is Behavioral Health NMI; Applications (prefaced with BH) | CS | http://intranet/salesproduct/salesproductbhedsummary.htm | ||
| BMV | Bedside Med. Verification | Allows caregivers to utilize bar code technology to confirm patient identity and medication information. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSBMV.htm | ||
| CA | Cost Accounting | Helps organizations monitor and control their costs. | M,CS |
http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSCA.htm | ||
| CC | Continuing Care | Provides features necessary to facilitate a full continuum of service for extended care patients and residents. | CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSLTC.htm http://intranet/ltc/ltchomepage.htm |
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| CL | Claims (Electronic) | Subset of B/AR | M,CS | |||
| CM | Care Manager | Provides a continuum of mental health care. See link for details. |
CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSBH.htm | ||
| CON | Contracting | UK ONLY | UKonly | http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsMagicUkCON.htm | ||
| CPOE | Computerized Physician Order Entry |
Also referred to as POM; Physicians enter and manage orders from the hospital, home, or while traveling. Code resides in OE; Part of PCM suite. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/PrMd/homepage.htm | ||
| CWS | Community Wide Scheduling | Simplifies the process by which staff members schedule patient appointments. Also referred to as SCH. |
M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSCWS.htm | ||
| DA | Data Archive | Allows for permanent storage of computer -generated reports and scanned documents. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSDA.htm http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsMDA.htm |
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| DPT | Departmental | (M) part of OE; (CS) part of ITS |
M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsMDept.htm | ||
| DR | Data Repository | Reporting and Decision Support Tools. | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSDR.htm http://intranet/idr/homepage.htm |
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| EAR |
Electronic Ambulatory Record | Part of MPM suite; On-line patient clinical record. | LSS | http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsLSSEAR.htm | ||
| EDM | Emergency Dept. Mgmt. | Allows Emergency Department staff manage patients.Product Suite containing EDM, POM and AOM/RXM |
M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSEDM.htm | ||
| EMR | Enterprise Medical Record | see EMRT. | CS, FS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSEMR.htm | ||
| EMRT | Enterprise Medical Record | Provides a single source for viewing all relevant patient information. Equivalent of PCI in Magic. | CS, FS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSEMR.htm | ||
| EP | Electronic Prescribing | Subset of PHA UK. | UKonly | http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsMagicUkElecPres.htm | ||
| EPI | Enterprise Patient Index | Shared database of demographic, insurance, and visit history information for every patient in the integrated care delivery system. | CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSEPI_MR.htm | ||
| EPS | Extra PCI Datasource | a.k.a Clinical Review in 5.4 PCM package. Provides physicians with real time dynamic views of patients' clinical data. | M only | http://intranet/salestraining/cont%5Fed%5Fclinical%5Freview.htm | ||
| ESS | Executive Support System | Management tool for gathering and analyzing information from throughout their network. | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSESS.htm | ||
| FA | Fixed Assets | Helps health care organizations to control and depreciate their assets. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSFA.htm | ||
| GL | General Ledger | Financial bookkeeping and reporting. | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSgl.htm | ||
| HIS | HIS | $T Counterpart to MIS |
M,$T,UK | |||
| HR | Human Resources | HR functionality; Used in conjunction with PP | M,CS | Original DDP 3112 | ||
| HUB | No full name! | PART OF EMR; | CS | |||
| HUBS | HUB Server | Server Code for EMR | CS,FS | |||
| HWS | HUB Web Server | FS Application that sends data to IG | CS | |||
| IAD | Internet Gateway for Physicians | Part of PCM Suite;Subset of IG; | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/prmig/homepage.htm | ||
| IAP | Internet Gateway for Patients | Subset of IG; Helps HC organizations maintain effective electronic relationships with patients. |
M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSIntAcc.htm |
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| IAS | Internet Gateway for Staff | Part of HR Suite; Subset of IG; Enables employees to easily access work-related data. |
M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSIntAcc.htm | ||
| ICS | Integrated Communications Systems | Customer Version of RAT applications. | FS | http://intranet/qacontent/icsmenu.htm http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSICS.htm |
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| IG | Internet Gateway | Suite of Applications including IAP, IAS and IAD | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/prmig/homepage.htm http://intranet/mig/homepage.htm |
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| ITS | Imaging and Therapeutic Services | CS Version of RAD and Departmental | CS | http://intranet/newhireseminars/eseducitsseminar.htm http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSITS.htm |
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| LAB | Laboratory | Part of LIS | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSLab.htm | ||
| LIS | Laboratory Information System | Suite of applications: LAB/BBK/MIC/PTH | M,CS | |||
| LSI | LSS Shared Information | Part of MPM Suite | LSS | |||
| LTC | Long Term Care | Financial, Administrative, and Clinical system for extended care patients and residents. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSLTC.htm | ||
| LTAC | Long Term Acute Care | Same as above except patient eventually is discharged; finite stay | ||||
| MAM | Medical Archiving Management | Meditech's Data Archiving Solution | M only | http://intranet/hca/friday_links/mam080102.htm | ||
| MC | Managed Care | 2 Applications: MCEM, MCFM; Retired Application. |
M,CS | http://intranet/mimc/MIC_Whatismc.htm http://intranet/mimc/MIC_mcterms.htm |
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| MIC | Microbiology | Part of LIS | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSMicrobio.htm | ||
| MIS | Management Information System | M,CS,UK | ||||
| MM | Materials Management | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSMM.htm | |||
| MMPHA | Materials Management - Pharmacy | MM linked to PHA | M,CS,UK | |||
| MOX | Magic Office | Mailing System, Employee Locator | M,UK | |||
| MPM | Medical Practice Management | Suite of products containing modules from both MEDITECH and LSS designed to manage outpatient offices. Products include: SCH,PB/R,PWM,EAR,AOM,ARM(C/S),LSI(LSS) | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsLSSMPM.htm http://intranet/impm/fyi/whatismpm.htm http://intranet/impm/homepage.htm |
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| MRI | Medical Records | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSEPI_MR.htm | |||
| MRM | Medical Records Management | Archiving and Scanning System with Remote Coding | M,CS | |||
| NMI | Non-MEDITECH Interface | Interfacing Module | M,CS,UK | http://intranet/inmi/ | ||
| NPPOM | Non- Provider POM | Refer to OM | M,CS | |||
| NPR | Non-Procedural Representation | M,CS,UK | ||||
| NR | Nurse Rostering | UK specific product since replaced by NUR SS | UKonly | |||
| NUR | Nursing | Equivalent of PCS in Magic. | M,UK | https://www.meditech.com/prnur/homepage.htm http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsMNursing.htm |
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| OA | Office Automation | Part of MOX, offers file storage | M,UK | |||
| OD | Optical Disk | see Data Archiving | ||||
| OE | Order Entry | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSOE.htm | |||
| OM | Order Management | Part of PCM Suite, same code as POM; aka NPPOM. | M only | |||
| ONC | Oncology Management | Separate application that enhances POM allowing for placement/tracking of chemotherapy type orders. | M,CS | http://magicweb/dts/PROJECTS/3192.htm http://intrapost/csegroups/ranahan/tnewman/oncology/oncnov04/ONC_NOV_0400..htmm |
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| OR | Operating Room Management | Provides functionality for all aspects of running a hospital operating room. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSORM.htm |
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| PB/R | Physician/Billing Receivable | Part of MPM suite. | M,CS | |||
| PCI | Patient Care Inquiry | Source for viewing the Electronic Medical Record. | M,UK | http://www.meditech.comprpci/homepage.htm | ||
| PCM | Physician Care Manager | Suite of applications which allow physicians to manage their workloads, review patients' results, manage orders, document care, and electronically sign documents on-line. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsCSPCM.htm http://intranet/milab/materials/mil%5Fpcm%5Fsuite%5Femr.doc |
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| PCS | Patient Care System | Nursing Application for C/S | CS,FS | https://www.meditech.com/prpcs/homepage.htm http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSPCS.htm http://fsdev/pcs/pcsinfo/pcs-index.htm |
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| PDI | Patient Discharge Instructions | Library of physician-approved recovery care instructions to distribute to patients upon discharge. | LSS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsCSPDI.htm | ||
| PE | Patient Education | Teaches patients and the community about common medical diagnoses, treatments, medications, and care. Comprised of: * Patient-Centered Education * General Diagnosis Education |
CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSPtEd.htm http://www.meditech.com/salesproduct/shows/pdi_web/pdi00.htm http://intranet/qacontent/PatientEducationMain.htm |
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| PHA | Pharmacy | Helps pharmacists perform their daily activities efficiently and effectively. | M,CS,UK | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSPharm.htm | ||
| POC | Point of Care | Enhancement in NUR and PCS to allow nurses and other caregivers to perform bedside documentation. | M,CS | |||
| POM | Physician Order Management | Physicians enter and manage orders from the hospital, home, or while traveling. Also referred to as EPOM and CPOE. Part of PCM and EDM suites. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/PrMd/homepage.htm | ||
| PP | Payroll Personnel |
Supports payroll, benefit plans, job classifications, withholdings/deductions, and employee types. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSPP.htm | ||
| PPM | Physician Practice Management | SCH and PRV; No longer being sold as PPM; see MPM. | M,CS | N/A | ||
| PRV | Provider Module | Synonym for PPM; Database = PRV.xxx | LSS | |||
| PTCT | Patient Care Technologies | Home Health Care vendor/suite of applications. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/ptct/pages/PtCT1_ImplementationGuide.htm http://ptct.com/ |
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| PTH | Pathology | Part of LIS | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsCSAntPath.htm | ||
| PWM | Provider Workload Management | Accessed via MPM or PCM; Enables physicians to access their schedules, manage tasks, review results, etc. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsLSSPWM.htm | ||
| QM | Quality Management | Tools for documenting and monitoring quality and environmental issues. | M,CS | http://intranet/hcisimp/gifyiqualitymanagementov.htm http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsCSQMRM.htm |
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| RAD | Radiology | Clinical | M,$T,UK | |||
| RADRW | Radiology Report Writer | M,UK | ||||
| RM | Risk Management | Subset of QM; reporting/tracking tool of risks to patients, staff and visitors and risk of loss to organization itself | M,CS | http://intranet/hcisimp/gifyiqualitymanagementov.htm http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsCSQMRM.htm |
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| RW | Report Writer | M,CS | ||||
| RXM | Prescription Order Mgmt | Prescription management tool plus other features. Also referred to as AOM. Part of PCM and EDM suites. | M,CS | http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsLSSAOM.htm | ||
| SCA | Scanning and Archiving | Meditech's Data Archiving Solution. Suite may include MAM (magic only) and MRM.(magic or CS) | M,CS | http://intranet/salesprice/salespricescan&archive.htm | ||
| SCH | Scheduling | Also referred to as CWS. Part of MPM suite. | M,CS | |||
| SCH | Outpatient Scheduling Module | Also referred to as CWS. Part of MPM suite. | UKonly | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsMagicUkOCS.htm | ||
| SPC | Special Maternity | UK Only | UKonly | |||
| SS | Support Systems | AMS Module | AMS | http://intranet/magicsys/homepage.htm | ||
| SS | Theatre Management | UK Only | UKonly | http://intranet/iint/theatres.htm http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsMagicUkTM.htm |
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| STS | Staffing & Scheduling | Separate Module in CS. Feature of NUR in MAGIC. Highly integrated with PP |
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| TECH | Technical Operations | AMS Module, Subgroup of Systems | AMS | http://intranet/magicsys/pages/CSTECH/mtcss.htm | ||
| WL | Waitlist Application | UK Only | UKonly | http://intranet/reportwriter/pages/referencepages/mgukwl.htm http://intranet/iint/waitlist.htm http://www.meditech.com/ProductBriefs/Pages/ProductBriefsMagicUkWL.htm |
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| WW | Windows Workstation | Allows authorized PC users at home or in their offices to connect to the MEDITECH system Internet. | M | http://www.meditech.com/productbriefs/pages/ProductBriefsMWindowsWeb.htm | ||