Author(s): Mark S. Tuttle, Tony Weida, Thomas White and Jennie Harvell
Organization(s): Apelon, New York State Office of Mental Health, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
The Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) Initiative unanimously endorsed selected content and messaging standards for use with federally-required patient assessments that include functional and disability content. The National Committee for Health and Vital Statistics has recommended that the Secretary of HHS approve and adopt these CHI standards into federal programs. This paper describes the Minimum Data Set (MDS) standardization process and identifies the current vocabulary and Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) matches that were identified through a recent ASPE contract. [36 PDF pages]
