Vocabulary Task Force

The HIT Standards Committee’s Clinical Operations Workgroup set up a Vocabulary Task Force to address vocabulary subsets and value sets as facilitators and enablers of “meaningful use.” The Vocabulary Task Force met on March 23, 2010 after seeking input.

As John Halamka, MD said in his blog:

"To ensure the right subsets are available and maintained, we need governance - who decides what goes into the vocabularies, what mappings are created, and how disputes/redundancies are resolved? We need a place to store vocabularies that makes them easily accessible to all. We need a roadmap for future work."

The audio is posted with the agenda and meeting materials below:

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Agenda

Summary and Key Points from February Hearing

Panel 1: Office of the National Coordinator, Interoperability Framework

• Douglas Fridsma, MD

Panel 2: Federal Provider Organizations

• Linda Fischetti, Veterans Administration
• Nancy Orvis, Department of Defense
• Theresa Cullen, Indian Health Service, HHS
• TBD, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Panel 3:  Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Vocabulary Infrastructure

• Ken Buetow, National Cancer Institute, CaBIG
• Nikolay Lipskiy, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, HHS
• Michael Fitzmaurice, Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ/USHIK)
  
  
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• Jim Case, National Animal Health Network
• Stuart Nelson, National Library of Medicine

Panel 4:  Best Practices & Lessons Learned, con’t

• Charles Rothwell, Director, Division of Vital Statistics, CDC
• Brady Hamilton, Division of Vital Statistics, CDC
• Amy Bernstein, Office of Analysis & Epidemiology
• TBD, National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC)

Panel 5: Level 1 Governance Value Set

• Sharon Sprenger, The Joint Commission
• Karen Kmetik, American Medical Association
• Greg Pawlson, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) [invited]
• Janet Corrigan, National Quality Forum (NQF)