The HIT Standards Committee’s Clinical Operations Workgroup set up a Vocabulary Task Forceto address vocabulary subsets and value sets as facilitators and enablers of “meaningful use.” The Vocabulary Task Force meets monthly under the auspices of the parent Workgroup.“

Specific Charge

• To identify gaps, issues and needs for clinical and administrative vocabulary solutions within the scope of the HIT Standards Committee; to develop recommendations to the HIT Standards Committee for methods, actions, and/or programs to mitigate, manage, or solve these vocabulary concerns.

Meetings

Member List

• Jamie Ferguson, Chair, Kaiser Permanente
• Betsey Humphreys, Co-Chair, National Library of Medicine
• Donald Bechtel, Siemens
• Christopher Chute, Mayo Clinic
• Bob Dolin, HL7
• Floyd Eisenberg, National Quality Forum
• Patricia Greim, Veterans Affairs
• John Halamka, Harvard Medical School
• Stan Huff, Intermountain Healthcare
• John Klimek, NCPDP
• Clem McDonald, National Library of Medicine
• Stuart Nelson, National Library of Medicine
• Marjorie Rallins, American Medical Association
• Dan Vreeman, Regenstrief Institute
• Jim Walker, Geisinger
• Andrew Wiesenthal, IHTSDO (SNOMED)

Ex Officio/Federal

• Doug Fridsma, HHS/ONC
• Marjorie Greenberg, HHS/CDC