# A glossary of digital health in Aotearoa NZ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Open Forum\ **Tags:** glossary\ **Created:** [October 27, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://ehealthforum.nz/t/a-glossary-of-digital-health-in-aotearoa-nz/30081 "2023-10-27T00:46:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![NathanK](https://ehealthforum.nz/user_avatar/ehealthforum.nz/nathank/32/6064_2.png) [@NathanK](https://ehealthforum.nz/u/NathanK)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://ehealthforum.nz/t/a-glossary-of-digital-health-in-aotearoa-nz/30081/4 "2023-10-29T21:24:33Z")
> [@VictoriaBrevoort](#): > > I think thats a great idea Nathan! Thank you - I can’t take the credit as others (such as @Lucyw and @lara) have taken that and run with it a long way already. > [@Lucyw](#): > > I will upload a Glossary / Abbreviation / Acronym list that I created and placed on our Te Toka Tumai HIT MSTeams site for reference This is very impressive!!! And I love the way that it includes te reo Māori terms. Here is another source, this time @lara’s from the Clinical Digital Academy course: [Bingo2023ExplainedSheet.pdf](https://ehealthforum.nz/uploads/short-url/pnP6fXuLgjZEWRldUXLaWF2oTmk.pdf) (422.5 KB) ## How to proceed? What we _can_ do here in the eHealth Forum is ensure that our national digital health community can easily take ownership of it and contribute to it sustainably (in a wikipedia-esque manner), whilst making it maximally discoverable via search engines and the like. Then it will potentially become a living resource for everyone’s benefit. The key element is that we all agree to do it together and share out both the work and the benefits. ## Practicalities within the eHealth Forum - a hybrid approach We’ve got three key ways of tackling this (all linked together). These have been experimented with a bit and seem workable: you can check out the drafts. 1. Having a single [wiki](https://ehealthforum.nz/t/wikis-and-how-to-use-them/9723) topic that includes all abbreviations and brief definitions in a table 2. Having a dedicated #support:glossary Category 3. Auto-linking forum text to these abbreviations and topics --- _[View the full topic](https://ehealthforum.nz/t/a-glossary-of-digital-health-in-aotearoa-nz/30081)._