Vocabulary

The Vocab TC identifies, organizes and maintains coded vocabulary terms used in HL7 messages, to enable the exchange of clinical data and information so that sending and receiving systems have a shared, well defined, and unambiguous knowledge of the meaning of the data transferred.

HL7 Vocabulary TC Infrastructure and Assets

See also: Harmonization Meetings

Documents

• Compositional Expressions in HL7 Value Sets
• HL7 Oid Symposium (INM and VOCAB)
• Vocabulary/Terminfo Compositional Expression Working Group
• NLM Contract
• 16 Points Document
• Vocabulary TC Decisions Document
• Domain and Value Set Definitions and Binding - "rescued" from valuesets.org
• Vocabulary Portion of Core Principles

Vocabulary

• HL7 Vocabulary Technical Correction Reporting
• Value Set binding
• CWE, CNE
• Revise existing Foundation Vocabulary Introduction
• Revise existing Background V3 Guide Vocabulary Section
• Revise existing Vocabulary section in HDF
• Discussion of Act.text vs. Act.code.originalText
• Marital Status Code Definitions
• Code Conformance Discussion
• Technical_Correction_of_Value_Sets_-_February_2009
• [Vocabulary Maintenance Language And Tool]
• Concept Domain Naming Conventions
• Post-coordination Value Set Examples

Specifications

HL7 Common Terminology Services (CTS).

IHTSDO / HL7 Collaboration

• HL7 / IHTSDO MOU
• IHTSDO Workbench Coordination

Projects

• HL7 proposed content change requests for SNOMED-CT to IHTSDO
• Evaluation of IHTSDO Workbench Information Model to the HL7 Vocabulary MIF Format
• [Common Terminology Services - Release 2]
• HL7 proposed guidance on use of displayName(V3 CD) and Text (V2.x CNE,CWE)
• [Binding Syntax for Implementation Guides - joint with IC]
• HL7 proposed policy for submission of foreign language vocabulary