Vocabulary Task Force Meeting
Clinical Operations Workgroup of  HIT Standards Committee
March 23, 2010
9:00am to 4:30pm EDT   Webconference/Audio (see access below)
Meeting focuses on Best Practices and lessons learned from stakeholders in vocabulary infratructure as well as governance values for various vocabularies.

Questions for Vocabulary Owners/Custodians
1. What vocabulary subset or value set creation and distribution services do you provide?
2. Who uses your services and what is the level of use?
3. What, if any, additional services and capabilities are in active development?
4. If applicable, what process is used to establish and revise any subsets or value sets that you distribute?
5. Based on your experience, what advice would you offer regarding best practices and pitfalls to avoid?

Questions for those involved in Governance Value Sets
1. Who should determine which value sets are needed?
2. Who should produce the value sets?
3. Who should review and approve value sets?
4. How should value sets be described, i.e., what is the minimum set of metadata needed?
5. In what format(s) and via what mechanism should value sets be distributed?
6. How and how frequently should value sets be updated, and how should updates be coordinated?
7. What support services would promote and facilitate their use?
8. What best practices/lessons learned have you learned, or what problems have you learned to avoid, regarding value set creation, maintenance, dissemination, and support services?
9. Do you have other advice or comments on value sets and their relationship to meaningful use?
10. What must the federal government do or not do with regard to the above, and/or what role should the federal government play?
11. Some have expressed concerns about intellectual property with respect to the specific value sets (i.e., the effort and expertise required to create them), and regarding the specific codes used (i.e., value sets developer from proprietary code sets). How do you envision sharing value sets while accounting for these intellectual property issues?

• Sharon Sprenger, The Joint Commission [PDF - 229 KB]
  “While The Joint Commission has its roots in hospital accreditation, over the years it has developed evaluation programs for a diverse array of health care settings. Today, The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 17,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, including ambulatory care, behavioral health services, durable medical equipment providers and suppliers, home care, hospices, hospitals and critical access hospitals, laboratories and long term care facilities.” –From Joint Commission Statement
• Karen Kmetik, American Medical Association
• Greg Pawlson, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) [invited]
• Janet Corrigan, National Quality Forum (NQF)

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