- A&E
- Accident and Emergency — the hospital department receiving emergency presentations.
- ABDM
- Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission — India's national digital health infrastructure programme.
- ABHA
- Ayushman Bharat Health Account — the patient's national digital health identity, allowing records to follow them between facilities.
- ABHM
- Ayushman Bharat Health Mission — the national health framework to which BAEMS is designed to comply.
- BAEMS
- Blockchain-enabled Accident & Emergency Management System — the clinical emergency system within the RISE programme.
- BBIMS
- Blood Bank Information Management System.
- BEO
- Break-Even Output analysis — determining the point at which total revenue exceeds total cost.
- DPDP Act
- Digital Personal Data Protection Act — India's data protection statute.
- EHR
- Electronic Health Record.
- FHIR R4
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, release 4 — the standard for clinical data exchange used across BAEMS.
- GDPR
- General Data Protection Regulation — European data protection law, applicable where European data subjects are in scope.
- HIPAA
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — United States health data regulation.
- HL7
- Health Level Seven — the standards family from which FHIR derives, used in BBIMS integration.
- IIDAMS
- Integrated Interoperable Disaster Aid Management System — the coordination layer beneath Cad Care RISE, and the system that lets it scale from one incident to a population-wide emergency.
- IPFS
- InterPlanetary File System — decentralised storage used for large-volume data.
- LIS
- Laboratory Information System.
- PBM
- Patient Blood Management — clinical programmes reducing unnecessary transfusion.
- PM-JAY
- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana — India's national health assurance scheme.
- RISE
- Resilience and Inclusive Solutions for Emergencies. Cad Care RISE is the Accident & Emergency Management System built under that name — Assistance In Distress — a Division of Cad Care Aid Foundation.
- CAD CARE
- Resilience and Inclusive Solutions for Emergencies.
- EHP
- Emergency Health Profile — the individual-scale record RISE reads in an emergency.
- EPIC
- Effective Practice Incentive Community — the longitudinal counterpart to RISE, delivered as the IIDHP.
- IIDHP
- Integrated & Interoperable Digital Health Profile.
- SAHI
- Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India — the national AI governance framework launched February 2026.
- BODH
- Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI — privacy-preserving model evaluation, developed by IIT Kanpur with the NHA.
- SAM
- Serviceable Addressable Market.
- TAM
- Total Addressable Market.
- UAT
- User Acceptance Testing.