Definitions for "NAHIT"
National Alliance for Health Information Technology www.nahit.org Comprised of almost 100 member organizations from four industry sectors: providers (medical groups, care providers), payors, supply chain, information technology suppliers and other relevant non-healthcare organizations and government liaisons, working to advance the adoption and implementation of healthcare information technology.
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (also known as "the Alliance"). A partnership of leaders from all healthcare sectors working to advance the adoption and implementation of healthcare information technology to achieve improvements in patient safety, quality and efficiency. See www.nahit.org
Convert a name to a phonetic coding of up to six characters. NYSIIS differs from SOUNDEX in that it retains information about the position of vowels in the encoded word by converting all vowels to the letter A. It also returns a purely alpha code (no numeric components). Probabilistic Matching Algorithm Based on statistical probability theories. Data is reviewed and decisions are made as to how to weight data elements based upon their frequency of appearance in database. RPI Regional Patient Index