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The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) contains information from numerous healthcare-related initiatives. USHIK content includes administered items and other artifacts for CMS Quality Reporting Programs, All-Payer Claims Databases, Children's EHR Format, Draft Clinical Quality Measures available for feedback, AHRQ's Patient Safety / Common Formats, as well as standards for ASC X12, NCPDP, and HITSP.
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The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) contains information from numerous healthcare-related initiatives. USHIK content includes administered items and other artifacts for CMS Quality Reporting Programs, All-Payer Claims Databases, Children's EHR Format, Draft Clinical Quality Measures available for feedback, AHRQ's Patient Safety / Common Formats, as well as standards for ASC X12, NCPDP, and HITSP.
Standards
The Standards portal provides specifications from ASC X12 (X12N 5010 Health Care Data Element Dictionary) and NCPDP (NCPDP October 2011 Data Dictionary). This portal provides an efficient interface for viewing and comparing standards artifacts.
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NCPDP
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ASC X12
Data Elements
The Standards portal provides specifications from ASC X12 (X12N 5010 Health Care Data Element Dictionary) and NCPDP (NCPDP October 2011 Data Dictionary, NCPDP April 2014 Data Dictionary). This portal provides an efficient interface for viewing and comparing standards artifacts.
HITSP
The HITSP Portal contains data for health interoperability specifications and related constructs, such as C32, C80, C83, and C154. These specifications have been registered and structured to support research, analysis and comparison.
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C32: (CCD) Component
C80: Vocabularies & Terminologies
C83: CDA Content Modules
C154: Data Dictionary Component
The HITSP Portal contains data for health interoperability specifications and related constructs, such as C32, C80, C83, and C154. These specifications have been registered and structured to support research, analysis and comparison.
Common Formats
The Common Formats portal provides detailed information on the Data Elements required for Patient Safety Event reporting.
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NQF
PSOPPC
Common Formats
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AHRQ PSO
The Common Formats portal provides detailed information on the Data Elements required for Patient Safety Event reporting.
Quality Reporting
The Quality Reporting portal contains specifications, artifacts, downloads, search tools, and other resources for Quality Reporting, including Clinical Quality Measures, Value Sets.
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Clinical Quality Measures
Value Sets
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Help
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CQM Tools & Resources
The Quality Reporting portal contains specifications, artifacts, downloads, search tools, and other resources for Quality Reporting, including Clinical Quality Measures, Value Sets.
All-Payer Claims
The APCD portal offers a convenient set of tools for users to compare and download All-Payer Claims reporting specifications from single state and multiple states, as well as the APCD council core specification.
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States
File Submissions
Data Elements
APCD Core Data Elements
APCD Council/ASC X12 Mapping
Resources
APCD Council's FAQ
APCD Showcase
User Guide
The APCD portal offers a convenient set of tools for users to compare and download All-Payer Claims reporting specifications from single state and multiple states, as well as the APCD council core specification.
Draft Measures
Child EHR Format
The Children's EHR Format (the Format) is a set of child-specific requirements (and other requirements of special importance for children) that an EHR should meet to perform optimally for the particular health care needs of children. The Format is provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Activity Clearance
Birth Information
Child Abuse Reporting
Child Welfare
Children with Special Healthcare Needs
EPSDT
Genetic information
Growth Data
Immunizations
Medication Management
Newborn Screening
Parents and Guardians and Family Relationship Data
Patient Identifier
Patient Portals - PHR
Prenatal Screening
Primary Care Management
Quality Measures
Registry Linkages
School-Based Linkages
Security and Confidentiality
Special Terminology and Information
Specialized Scales/Scoring
Well Child/Preventive Care
User Tools
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User Guide
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The Children's EHR Format (the Format) is a set of child-specific requirements (and other requirements of special importance for children) that an EHR should meet to perform optimally for the particular health care needs of children. The Format is provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI)
Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI)
Messaging Standards
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Medical Devices - IEEE™ 1073
Pharmacy- NCPDP- Script
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LOINC®
Laboratory Result Names
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SNOMED CT®
Laboratory Result Content
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