martes, 2 de abril de 2013

United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) Update

United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) Update

United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) Update


Revised 2014 Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) Now Available

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in collaboration with CMS, NLM, and ONC, maintains the Meaningful Use Portal in the United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) (http://ushik.ahrq.gov). USHIK presents the updated 2014 clinical quality measures, data elements, and their value sets.
The new April 1, 2013 release of the most recent versions of the 2014 CQM’s may be downloaded in the following file formats:
· HL7’s HQMF (xml)
· Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise’s Sharing Value Sets (xml)
· Adobe (pdf)
· Excel (xls)
· Comma separated values (csv)
As a one-stop-shop, USHIK also provides a single flat-file format containing all the new 2014 CQM clinical concepts and their value sets organized by CQM name and ID and by vocabulary code system (such as ICD-9-CM, SNOMED CT, RxNORM). This flat file is available for download in csv format, xml format (with schema), and as an Excel spreadsheet.

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