Additional Interoperability and Standards Resources

Terminologies

Electronic Nutrition Care Process Terminology (eNCPT): An online publication of standardized nutrition terminology supporting the Nutrition Care Process, facilitating clear communication among dietetics professionals.

Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED): A comprehensive, multilingual healthcare terminology that provides codes, terms, synonyms, and definitions used in clinical documentation and reporting.

Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): A set of files and software that brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems.

Data Standards and Repositories

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR): A next-generation standards framework created by HL7 for exchanging electronic health information, designed to be more flexible and easier to implement than older HL7 standards.

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC): A universal standard for identifying health measurements, observations, and documents to facilitate the exchange and aggregation of clinical results for care delivery, outcomes management and research.

United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI): A standardized set of health data classes and constituent data elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange.

ValueSet Authority Center (VSAC): A repository and authoring tool for value sets that support the definition and maintenance of reusable sets of codes, provided by the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Standards Organizations and Advisory Resources

Health Level Seven International (HL7 ): An ANSI-accredited organization that develops standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information.

Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA): A catalog maintained by the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ASTP/ONC) that provides information on interoperability standards and implementation specifications for healthcare.

Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC): A division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ONC coordinates nationwide efforts to implement advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information. ASTP coordinates broader technology policy initiatives across federal agencies.

Organizations and Groups

Nutrition Informatics Dietetic Practice Group (NIDPG): An Academy dietetic practice group focusing on the integration of nutrition and information technology to improve health outcomes.

Resources and Educational Materials

Global Malnutrition Composite Score (GMCS): First nutrition-focused Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM).

Nutrition Care Process (NPC) section: This section provides information on the Nutrition Care Process, a systematic approach to providing high-quality nutrition care.

Research Article: 2019 Nutrition Informatics Survey: Results and Future Directions

Data Platforms

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Health Informatics Infrastructure (ANDHII): A web-based system that allows practitioners to collect and manage outcomes data from nutrition interventions, supporting evidence-based practice and research.