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TAXII - Trusted Automated Exchange of Intelligence Information (as part of a threat intelligence network, defines how cyber threat intelligence (CTI) can be shared via electronic transmissions)

TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (the core Internet communications protocol, often used to refer to the entire set of protocols used on the Internet for communications of all types)

TCS - Transaction and Code Sets (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules used to standardize the electronic transfer of information by requiring the types of codes health practitioners use when communicating with payers - Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) for procedures and International Classification of Diseases (ICD) for diagnoses)

TECFA - Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (Computerized information system network program developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), intended to provide a nationwide system of communications between hospital and healthcare organizations, which will enhance secure information exchange, as well as allowing individuals access to their health care informaion.)

TIMMS - Therapy Imaging and Model Management System

TLS - Transport Layer Security (security protocol that enables the secured transport of information across protected network tunnels on the Internet)

TMRPA - Texas Medical Records Privacy Act (Texas law dealing with personal protected health information and records)

TPM - Trusted Platform Module (an embedded microchip on the computer's motherboard that provides crptographic functions)

TPO - Treatment, Payment, and Healthcare Operations (component or area of patient health care involving activities related to treatment, billing, and organizational activities related to health care)