PHIN Vocabulary Access and Distribution System
PHIN VADS is a web-based enterprise vocabulary system for accessing, searching, and distributing vocabularies used within the PHIN. It promotes the use of standards-based vocabulary within PHIN systems to support the exchange of consistent information among Public Health Partners. Currently, there are 267 value sets and almost 700,000 concepts in PHIN VADS based on the code system/domain recommendations from CHI (Consolidated Health Informatics). Access and view vocabularies in the context of public health with file download options for Value Sets, Value Set Concepts, Code Systems, and Code System Concepts available in a tab-delimited text, Excel, or XML format. PHIN VADS provides standard vocabularies to CDC and its Public Health Partners in one place!
