Summary of Decisions and Suggested Next steps

1. Summary of Decisions and Suggested Next steps • Healthcare Industry has a significant gap in creating, managing and publishing “Value Sets” mapped to common concepts. • Community recommends to the HITSC to work with organizations such as NLM, NQF and others to set up the above capability. • For Query Health, one suggestion was to start with NQF CQM based Value Sets and improve from there. • This is a very good source as evidenced by the community and Query Health will start from these value sets. • In order to share value sets in a standard way, Query Health will adopt the IHE SVS Restful web service approach and will pilot that using the NQF Value Sets. • The CEDD is a significant specification to promote common definitions of queries across multiple Data Sources • Enhance the CEDD to include the vocabulary mapping, value sets for elements where applicable and map to the reference implementation frameworks of i2B2, hQuery and PopMedNetto ensure completeness • Multiple tools and interfaces can be used for Query Composition, but simple intuitive ways are necessary and the concept hierarchy representation of i2B2 has been proven to work in the real world. • Adopt i2B2 approach and create the hierarchy for Query Health pilots.

2. Next Steps • Activity 1 will be performed by the Initiative Coordinator / ONC as part of their regular briefing to HITSC • Activities 2 (NQF VS) and 4 (CEDD enhancement) will be part of the CEDD work stream in the Clinical WG • Activities 3 (IHE SVS Profile) and 5 (i2B2) will be part of the Technical WG