Page 0 11/20/2015 Welcome to the VMCoP Meeting April 21, 2009
Page 1 Agenda Welcome and Announcements -New release of PHIN VADS 3.0 – -PHIN Conference Abstracts ● Community Business −New Member Information −Vocabulary and Messaging Events −Upcoming VMCoP Meetings / Topics ● Brief Demo of new release of VADS 3.0 (15 mts) ● Presentation −Clinical Document Architecture for Public Health Case Reports 11/20/2015
Page 2 VMCoP Planning Team (Jan 2009 to Dec 2009) VMCoP SME Leads −Sundak Ganesan, MD Lead CDC PHIN Vocabulary Specialist, CDC PHIN Vocabulary Team Northrup Grumman Consultant to CDC / National Center for Public Health Informatics −Ted Klein President, Klein Consulting, Inc. VMCoP Representatives to the PHIN Communities of Practice Council −Sundak Ganesan, MD CoPP Liaison/VMCoP Facilitator Kim Wilson NCPHI Division of Informatics Outreach and Education, BearingPoint Business Consultant
Page 3 VM CoP Mailing List The VM CoP has a Listserv mailing list: To send mail to the community, send to the Listserv address. Remember that mail sent here will go to everyone in the community and be cautious when replying to just one person that you aren’t accidentally replying to everyone.
Page 4 Listserv members can manage their own subscriptions. All of these commands should be sent in an otherwise empty to the Listserv address, ● How do I subscribe to the list? −SUBSCRIBE VMCOP-PHIN FIRSTNAME LASTNAME ● How do I unsubscribe from the list? −SIGNOFF VMCOP-PHIN ● I want to get all the list mail in one daily delivery. How do I do that? −SET VMCOP-PHIN DIGEST ● I am going to be out of the office and don’t want my mail to pile up. Can I turn my subscription off temporarily? −SET VMCOP-PHIN NOMAIL to turn it off −SET VMCOP-PHIN MAIL to turn it back on Common Listserv Commands
Page 5 PHIN Conference 2009 Abstracts – Vocabulary & Messaging 1.Tutorials a)Vocabulary Content: LOINC, SNOMED, HITSP Value Sets b)Messaging: HL7 2.x, HL7 V3 and CDA Tutorial c)Vocabulary Server – VADS (Web services, User Group) 2.Posters a)Messaging or CDA Implementation Guide Development b)VMCoP (Activities, Evaluation) 3.Sessions (Panel) a)Public Health Case Reporting (CDA IG, CSTE Std. Reporting Criteria, HL7 2.x IG) b)CDA IG’s & Tools (NCPHI PHCR, HAI, HITSP CCD, Template Repository) c)Lab Vocabulary & Messaging (ELR 2.5.1, HITSP IS 01, Dwyer Table -CSTE) 4.VMCoP Workgroup Discussion a)Open Conversation related to Vocabulary & Messaging Implementation b)ARRA (Stimulus Plan Project, Funding)
Page 6 Vocabulary & Messaging Events 1.HITSP a) HITSP Webinar Series - NHIN Real World Sites, April 16 th, 2 to 3:30 p.m EST HITSP Webinar Series b) HITSP Priorities for the next 90 days – BlogBlog −American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (Wiki Site) - Title X111- Health Information TechnologyWiki Site 2.Co-operative Laboratory Test Terminology Development (NLM news release)NLM news release −LOINC, SNOMED and NPU (Nomenclature, Properties and Units)
Page 7 HITSP – ARRA – Call for Participation Volunteers Contact - CDC NCPHI Proposal – USHIK for HITSP data elements (questions) and PHIN VADS for HITSP value sets (answer lists).
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Page 9 Next VMCoP Meeting May 19 th, 2009, Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST Public Health Grid (PHGrid) − Please send questions or topics to be covered during the next presentation to VMCoP planning team at
Page 10 Future VMCoP Topics ● Potential Vocabulary Topics : CSTE Project – Standardized reporting definition of Nationally Notifiable Conditions (NNC) – Dwyer Table National Library of Medicine – UMLS, RxNorm, NLP LOINC / RELMA – Public Health focused training, Forum FDA - Food and Drug Vocabulary CDC NCHS – QBank (Survey Questions Evaluation Database) Demographic Vocabulary Standards implementation – GIS HITSP – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) ● Potential Messaging Topics : HL7 Lab (Orders & Observations) – Workgroup HL7 PHER – Public Health Emergency Response - Workgroup ELR – Messaging Implementation Experience / Challenges National Immunization Program (NIP) Messaging Advanced CDA tutorial PHLIP Flu Messaging Implementation Experience (APHL/CDC) 11/20/2015
Page 11 VADS 3.0 Release Announcement New VADS URL – Subscription / Support ( – Release Announcement −Easy to use −Versioning −Robust Searches (Synonyms) −Standardized Download files −Web services (API) −Help section Brief Demo −How to download the vocabulary associated with Messaging IG? −How to search for a SNOMED Concept (Legacy and new numeric code)? −How to search for a vocabulary subsets (value sets) from SNOMED? −Help Section −Code System Representation in VADS
Page 12 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) For Public Health Case Reports For Public Health Case Reports 11/20/2015 Gay Giannone MSN, RN Alschuler Associates, LLC Bob Dolin MD, FACP, FACMI Semantically Yours, LLC
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