Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Data Standards and Applications Committee

• Define unified reporting needs (internal and external).
• Commission necessary database (and data-warehouse) changes.
• Coordinate development of information-capture prompts and tools.
• Feed needs forward to policymakers.

Notes:

Data elements with definitions (e.g., SNOMED, CPT, LOINC, RxNorm)
Data sets required by specific customers