Data Infrastructure
Vocabulary Standards
Classifications & Vocabularies in CEHRT
Data Management Components
100

The data necessary to operate a business, the vocabulary, architecture and guaranteed quality.

What is data infrastructure?


100

A system of communication using signs, gestures, vocal sounds and written symbols.

What is language?

100

Tasked under HIPAA to make educated suggestions for uniform data standards for information put into patient medical records.

What is the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)?

100

Data about data.

What is metadata?

200

The unaltered components that combine to be the foundation of  our communication.

What is data?

200

Hierarchical structure found in ICD.

What is coding?

200

CMS issued this regulation to incentivize qualifying facilities and Medicare and Medicaid participating facilities and providers.

What is Meaningful Use (MU)?

200

Metadata repository.

What is a data dictionary?

300

Combine data to produce value.

What is information?

300

Being specifically related to singular words or short phrases.

What is granular?

300

The standardized classification of diseases, injuries and causes of death.

What is ICD-10-CM?

300

A structure that represents a specific database of an organization that will visually show that requirements are fulfilled.

What is data modeling?

400

Processing information with experience, developing knowledge and insight.

What is heuristic thought?

400

A group of associated codes.

What is a code set?

400

The comprehensive clinical references terminology that facilitates consistent capture of specific clinical information.

What is SNOMED CT?


400

Encoding knowledge onto computers so they automatically reason.

What is knowledge representation or machine learning?

500

The structure that supports and EHR and other health IT to create the knowledge continuum.

What is data architecture?

500

A group of data elements that have been predefined.

What is a data set?

500

The standard notation for clinical drugs developed by the VA, FDA, NLM in consultation with HL7.

What is RxNorm?

500

A record of where data originated.

What is data provenance?

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