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ARMA International

	Association of Records Managers and Administrators.
	ARMA international is a not-for-profit association of records managers. ARMA keeps its members up to-date with legislative and regulatory changes, standards, best practices, and technology. ARMA also provides literature, education, and forums, to its members. DataRealm is currently a member of ARMA.
	Arma.org - Official Website
	Wikipedia - article about ARMA

CMS

	Content Management System
	A Content Management System is a framework and system for managing electronic content. Content management systems are used mostly by organizations to allow their members to easily generate and post content to a central repository. The most common use for a CMS is to manage web content. For example intranet software, and wikis.
	Wikipedia - article about CMS

DMS

	Document Management System
	A document management system is a software system designed to track and store documents. These can be physical documents, electronic documents and files, or both. A DMS is a sub set of a records management system, where the DMS is focused on text based records. DMS is used mostly in reference to electronic document storage. Sometimes interchangeable with CMS and Records Management Systems.
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DW

	Digital Warehouse
	DataRealm Software's flexible platform for tracking real world and virtual items, with configurations for records management, laboratory information management systems, archive management, commercial storage, and more.

EMR

	Electronic Medical Records
	Electronic Medical Record is a broad term used for personal health records stored in some digital form. These can be as complete as a whole patient history, to as simple as data generated from medical test. There are various and sometimes conflicting formats for EMRs. Currently several governments and corporations are funding research to develop standards for EMR.
	Wikipedia - article about ERM

HIPAA

	Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
	HIPAA is an act passed by the US Congress, which among other things provides the guidelines for EMR security.
	hipaa.org - Official Website
	Wikipedia - article about HIPAA

LIS

	Lab Information System
	A Lab Information System is a software system for collecting and storing medical laboratory data. Some LISs can be used to track the history of lab samples, or to maintain workflow process. Some LIS use EMRs.
	Wikipedia - article about LIS

RM

	Records Management
	"The field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records" - ISO 15489: 2001 standard
	Wikipedia - article about RM

RMS

	Records Management Software/System
	RMS are the software and systems dedicated to Records Management. Digital Warehouse is a records management software system. Note: RMS is also commonly used to denote Root Mean Squared, a statistics term.
	Wikipedia - article about RM

WCMS

	Web Content Management System
	WCMS is a Content Management Systems dedicated to web content. WCMSs allow users to generate web pages with out the need to understand HTML, and without worrying about the style of the website. The WCMS manages the style of the site and where and what users can add or modify.
	Wikipedia - article about WCMS