Privacy & Security. Model Notices of Privacy Practices. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) collaborated to develop model Notices of Privacy Practices for health care providers and health plans for use when communicating with their patients and plan members.
Q.O.D. = every other day. Q.A.D. = every alternate day. Technically speaking, I would be hard pressed to find a difference. Nevertheless, I have spent a lifetime writing q.o.d. on prescriptions so that pharmacists can transcribe the latin abbreviation back into plain English for the patient. What a useless step!
Time Zone Abbreviations are a convenient and efficient way of indicating a time zone. Times zone abbreviations are not unique to a particular geographic location. As an example, the time zone abbreviation IST can refer to Irish Summer Time, Israel Standard Time or Indian Summer Time all of which observe different time zones..