ExpertGlossary acronyms starting with H

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  1. HA — Herd Area (HA) Following passage of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (WFRHBA) in 1971, the Bureau of Land Management was directed to identify areas where wild…
  2. HAART — Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) HIV treatment using multiple antiretroviral drugs to reduce viral load to undetectable levels and maintain/increase CD4 levels.
  3. HAB — HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) The bureau within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S.
  4. HADS — Hydrometeorological Automated Data System (HADS) Software that replaced GDDS to process and distribute the GOES DCP data and CADAS data collected from DCP's and LARCS.
  5. HAFA — Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program (HAFA) a program that provides opportunities for homeowners who can no longer afford to stay in their home but want to avoid foreclosure to transition to more…
  6. HAI — Healthcare-associated Infection (HAI) Healthcare-associated Infections are infections that patients acquire during the course of receiving treatment for other conditions within a healthcare…
  7. HAMP — Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) A program that provides eligible homeowners the opportunity to modify their mortgages to make them more affordable. See www.MakingHomeAffordable.gov.
  8. HAP — Hazardous air pollutant (HAP) Substances that have adverse impacts on human health when present in ambient air.
  9. HAPC — Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (HAPC) A habitat area designated by a Fishery Management Council under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 to help focus…
  10. HARP — Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) A program that provides homeowners with loans owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac an opportunity to refinance into more affordable monthly…
  11. HAVA — Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Congress passed HAVA to address voting problems encountered in the 2000 presidential election.
  12. HCBS — Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Services and support provided by most state Medicaid programs in your home or community that gives help with such daily tasks as bathing or dressing.
  13. HDD — Heating degree days (HDD) A measure of heating demand equal to the number of degrees a location’s mean daily temperature was below 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
  14. HDFS — Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) The HDFS file system stores large files across multiple machines. It achieves reliability by replicating the data across multiple hosts, and hence does…
  15. HDHP — High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) A high deductible health plan (HDHP) requires substantially higher than average out-of-pocket expenses before the insurance company will start paying for…
  16. HEL — Home Equity Loan (HEL) A home equity loan allows you to tap into your home's built-up equity, which is the difference between the amount that your home could be sold for and the…
  17. HELOC — Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) A line of credit secured by the equity in a consumer's home. It can be used for home improvements, debt consolidation, and other major purchases.
  18. HEMT — High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) This is a particular kind of transistor that is especially appropriate for use in microwave amplifiers.
  19. HERA — Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) HERA was enacted in 2008, and it established FHFA-OIG and FHFA, which oversees the GSEs’ operations.
  20. HERS — Home Energy Rating Systems (HERS) A nationally recognized energy rating program that gives builders, mortgage lenders, secondary lending markets, homeowners, sellers, and buyers a precise…
  21. HFC — Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Man-made chemicals, many of which have been developed as alternatives to ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) for industrial, commercial, and consumer…
  22. HHI — Hirschman-Herfindahl Index (HHI) Market share analysis The sum of the squares of the market shares of firms competing in a market. HHI is a commonly accepted measure of market concentration.
  23. HHS — Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) The federal agency that oversees CMS, which administers programs for protecting the health of all Americans, including Medicare, the Marketplace…
  24. HHV — Higher Heating Value (HHV) The maximum heating value of a fuel sample, which includes the calorific value of the fuel (bone dry) and the latent heat of vaporization of the water in…
  25. HI — heat index (HI) An index that combines air temperature and relative humidity to determine an apparent temperature-how hot it actually feels.
  26. HIC — Hydrometeorological Information Center (HIC) The Hydrometeorological Information Center of the Office of Hydrology (OH).
  27. HICP — Health Insurance Continuity Program (HICP) A program primarily under Part B of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program that makes premium payments, co-payments, deductibles, and/or risk pool payments on…
  28. HICPAC — Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) An expert panel in a specific field who advise the CDC on matters of healthcare associated infection, surveillance, control and prevention.
  29. HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Disease Any signs, symptoms, or other adverse health effects due to the human immunodeficiency virus.
  30. HMA — Herd Management Area (HMA) An area that has been designated for management of wild horses and/or burros.
  31. HMAC — Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) A specific construction for calculating a message authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function in combination with a secret key.
  32. HMO — Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) A type of health insurance plan that usually limits coverage to care from doctors who work for or contract with the HMO.
  33. HOD — Hydrologic Operations Division (HOD) The Hydrologic Operations Division of the Office of Hydrology (OH).
  34. HOD — Hydrologist on Duty (HOD) The Hydrologist on Duty at an RFC.
  35. HOEPA — Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA) Lenders are required to report whether a loan is subject to the provisions of the HOEPA.
  36. HOPWA — Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS (HOPWA) A program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that provides funding to support housing for PLWHA and their families.
  37. hp — Horsepower (hp) A unit of rate of operation. Electrical hp: a measure of time rate of mechanical energy output; usually applied to electric motors as the maximum output…
  38. HPA — ​​Home Price Appreciation (HPA) ​The rate by which house prices increase (or decrease) for a specified area, usually quoted on an annual basis.
  39. HRA — Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) are employer-funded group health plans from which employees are reimbursed tax-free for qualified medical expenses up…
  40. HRL — Hydrological Research Laboratory (HRL) The Hydrological Research Laboratory at the Office of Hydrology (OH).
  41. HRS — Hazard Ranking System (HRS) The Hazard Ranking System (HRS) is the principal mechanism EPA uses to place waste sites on the NPL.
  42. HRSA — Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) The agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that administers various primary care programs for the medically underserved, including the…
  43. HRSA — Health Resources Services Agency (HRSA) A division of Department of Health and Human Services.
  44. HSA — Health Savings Account (HSA) A health savings account is designed to accumulate tax-free assets to pay current and future healthcare expenses.
  45. HSA — Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) A geographical area assigned to Weather Service Forecast Office's/Weather Forecast Office's that embraces one or more rivers.
  46. HSB — Hydrologic Systems Branch (HSB) The Hydrologic Systems Branch in the Office of Hydrology (OH).
  47. HSMAI — Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI) www.hsmai.org , www.abt-travel.com
  48. HSPF — Heating Seasonal Performance Factor (HSPF) The measure of seasonal or annual efficiency of a heat pump operating in the heating mode.
  49. HTF — Heat transfer fluid (HTF) Fluids that transfer heat generated at the solar collectors to a heat exchanger where steam is produced to run a steam generator.
  50. HUD — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HUD is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government.
  51. HVM — Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM) virtualization Lets the guest VM run as though it is on a native hardware platform, except that it still uses para-virtual (PV) network and storage drivers for improved…
  52. Hz — Hertz (Hz) The unit of measurement of frequency, equivalent to one cycle per second.