Description of Collaborative Activity: |
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides an online repository of value sets (code sets from standardized medical vocabularies) that are used for clinical quality measurement in the CMS EHR Incentive Program (meaningful use). The Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) provides downloadable access to all official versions of vocabulary value sets contained in the electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) from CMS and C-CDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture) data from ONC. NLM works with CMS and ONC to publish the eCQM and C-CDA value sets in VSAC for public use in the U.S. Each value set consists of the numerical values (codes) and human-readable names (terms), drawn from standard vocabularies such as SNOMED CT ;, RxNorm, LOINC, and ICD-10-CM, which are used to define clinical concepts used in clinical quality measures (e.g., patients with diabetes, clinical visit). NLM, CMS and ONC work together to provide technical features in VSAC that support both the use of eCQM and C-CDA data. |
