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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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ASC X12
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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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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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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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APCD Core Data Elements
APCD Council/ASC X12 Mapping
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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
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Patient Identifier
Patient Portals - PHR
Prenatal Screening
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Quality Measures
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Well Child/Preventive Care
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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).
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