The Health IT Standards Committee’s Clinical Operations Workgroup set up a Vocabulary Task Force to address vocabulary subsets and value sets as facilitators and enablers of Meaningful Use. The Vocabulary Task Force met monthly under the auspices of the parent Workgroup.
July 23, 2013
At the December 19, 2012 meeting, the Health IT Standards Committee approved recommendations from the Vocabulary Task Force on the need to include current dental terminology (CDT) as a standard vocabulary for 2014 certified EHR technology to support Meaningful Use stage 2.
November 2, 2012
At the October 17, 2012 meeting, the Health IT Standards Committee approved recommendations related to the Food and Drug Administration’s Unique Device Identification System Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
July 16, 2012
At the July 16, 2012 meeting, the Health IT Standards Committee's Vocabulary Task Force developed recommendations for the use of vocabulary standards by measure developers.
September 9, 2011
At the August 17, 2011 meeting, the Health IT Standards Committee approved recommendations from the Clinical Quality Measures Workgroup and Vocabulary Task Force jointly.
April 28, 2011
At the April 2010 meeting, the Health IT Standards Committee approved recommendations from the Clinical Operations Workgroup/Vocabulary Task Force.