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Final Agenda

NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

SUBCOMMITTEE ON STANDARDS AND SECURITY

August 20-21, 2001

Room 705A, Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201

Monday, August 20
9:00 - 9:15 am	Introductions and announcements	Dr. Simon Cohn
9:15- 9:30 am	Introduction to models and reference terminologies	Dr. Christopher Chute, Mayo Foundation
9:30 - 10:15 am	Meta-data Registry (US Health Information Knowledgebase - USHIK)	Glenn Sperle, CMS
10:15 - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Presentation of the HL7 version 3 development process including the flow of use cases into a Reference Information Model (RIM) with the generation of message standards deriving from the model.	Dr. George (Woody) Beeler, HL-7
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 pm	The Good Electronic Health Record (GEHR) and questions	Dr. Peter Schloeffel, Australia
1:45 - 2:45 pm	A review of SNOMED as a reference terminology based on ontological principles and its potential use as a data dictionary for electronic health records.	Dr. Kent Spackman, SNOMED
2:45 - 3:15 pm	The new framework and data model for CPT	Michael Beebe, AMA
3:15 - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 - 4:15 pm	The objectives of the UMLS as a meta-thesaurus, the terminologies included within the UMLS, and the potential value of the UMLS for mapping between terminologies.	Betsy Humphreys, NLM
4:15 - 5:30 pm	Committee discussion regarding the use of information models and medical terminologies as a foundation for PMRI standards.	Dr. Chute
Tuesday, August 21
8:30 - 9:00 am	Review of PMRI data analysis methodologies: how the different perspectives can help us understand the standards, review of abbreviations, assumptions, constraints, etc.	Margret Amatayakul, MargretA Consulting
9:00 - 9:45 am	Review of data from the first methodology perspective	Margret Amatayakul
9:45 - 10:00 am	Break
10:00 - 10:45 am	Review of data from the second perspective	Margret Amatayakul
10:45 - 12:00 pm	Review of conclusions, gaps, issues and next steps
12:00 pm	Adjourn

August 30, 2001

Times, topics, and speakers are subject to change. For final agenda, please call 301-458-4200 at NCHS or visit the NCVHS home Page at http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/