| ABF | Activity-based funding AES |
| AFGH | Ateniese, Fu, Green, and Hohenberger |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| CID | Content Identifier |
| COVID-19 | Coronavirus Disease 2019 |
| DAG | Directed Acyclic Graph |
| DLT | Distributed Ledger Technology |
| EHR | Electronic Health Records |
| GW | Gigawatt |
| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| HL7 | Health Level Seven International |
| FHIR | Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources |
| ID | Identity |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IoMT | Internet of Medical Things |
| IPFS | InterPlanetary File System |
| IPLD | InterPlanetary Linked |
| MCMC | Markov chain Monte Carlo |
| MHR | My Health Record |
| MAM | Masked Authenticated Messaging |
| PDV | Patient Data Visualizer |
| PHR | Personal Health Records |
| PRE | Proxy Re-encryption |
| PoW | Proof of Work |
| P2P | Peer-to-Peer |
| SHA | Secure Hash Algorithm |
| QR | Quick Response |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USA | United States of America |
| UUID | Universally Unique Identifier |