External Standards Resources

External Standards Resources

Assigning Authority	URL, Contact Information, Description
APHL	http://www.aphl.org/ Association of Public Health Laboratories 8515 Georgia Avenue, Suite 700 Silver Spring, MD 20910 p: 240.485.2745 f: 240.485.2700 e: info@aphl.org v1.v2.11111 Association of Public Health Laboratory - The Association of Public Health Laboratories works to strengthen laboratories serving the public's health in the US and globally.
CAP	https://www.cap.org/web/home?_adf.ctrl-state=10pr8g2unu_4&_afrLoop=513117106065213#! https://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=contact_us v1.v2.v3 The College of American Pathologists, the leading organization of board-certified pathologists, serves patients, pathologists, and the public by fostering and advocating excellence in the practice of pathology and laboratory medicine.
CDC NCHS	https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ National Center for Health Statistics 3311 Toledo Road Hyattsville, Maryland 20782. Toll Free Data Inquiries 1-866-441-NCHS The mission of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is to provide statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS leads the way with accurate, relevant, and timely data.
CDC NCIRD	https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/ https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/contact.html The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), formerly known as the National Immunization Program until April, 2006, is charged with responsibility for the planning, coordination, and conduct of immunization activities in the United States. NCIRD's Mission:Prevention of disease, disability, and death through immunization and by control of respiratory and related diseases.NCIRD is a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, located in Atlanta, Georgia, and housed in the CDC 's Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID).
CDC NHSN	https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/ nhsn@cdc.gov The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is a voluntary, secure, internet-based surveillance system that integrates and expands legacy patient and healthcare personnel safety surveillance systems managed by the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at CDC.
CDC NIOSH	CDC NIOSH CDC NIOSH
CDC NNDSS	https://www.cdc.gov/nndss/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/nndss/contact.html National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) refers to the group at CDC who assumed responsibility in 1962 for the Congressional mandate to collect and publish data concerning nationally notifiable diseases. The list of nationally notifiable diseases is revised periodically. For example, a disease may be added to the list as a new pathogen emerges, or a disease may be deleted as its incidence declines. Public health officials at state health departments and CDC continue to collaborate in determining which diseases should be nationally notifiable; CSTE, with input from CDC, makes recommendations annually for additions and deletions to the list of nationally notifiable diseases. However, reporting of nationally notifiable diseases to CDC by the states is voluntary. Reporting is currently mandated (i.e., by state legislation or regulation) only at the state level. The list of diseases that are considered notifiable, therefore, varies slightly by state. All states generally report the internationally quarantinable diseases (i.e., cholera, plague, and yellow fever) in compliance with the World Health Organization's International Health Regulations. Data on selected notifiable infectious diseases are published weekly in the MMWR and at year-end in the annual Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States.
CDC PHIN Vocab and Msg	https://www.cdc.gov/phin/resources/standards/index.html PHINVS@cdc.gov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Public Health Information Network Vocabulary and Messaging Program. PHIN Vocabulary & Messaging Services program strives to enable the consistent and accurate representation of information by encouraging and supporting the use of Vocabulary and Messaging Standards to promote semantic interoperability among public health systems.
CMS	https://www.cms.gov/ https://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Agency-Information/ContactCMS/ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS's Mission:To ensure effective, up-to-date health care coverage and to promote quality care for beneficiaries
DOL BLS	http://www.bls.gov/ http://www.bls.gov/bls/contact.htm The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
DOL OSHA	https://www.osha.gov/ https://www.osha.gov/html/Feed_Back.html The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. OSHA is the main federal agency charged with the enforcement of safety and health legislation.
EPA	https://www3.epa.gov/ https://www.epa.gov/home/forms/contact-epa EPA leads the nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts. The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.
EuroFIR Consortium	http://www.eurofir.org/# http://www.eurofir.org/mission-statement__trashed/contact-eurofir-aisbl/ EuroFIR (European Food Information Resource Network), the world leading European Network of Excellence on Food Composition Databank systems, is a partnership between 47 universities, research institutes and small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from 25 European countries. EuroFIR will provide the first comprehensive pan-European food information resource, using state-of-the-art database linking, to allow effective management, updating, extending and comparability.
FDA - CDER	https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/center-drug-evaluation-and-research-cder https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/center-drug-evaluation-and-research-cder U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (FDA - CDER). The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's (CDER) job is to ensure that drugs are safe and effective. (See Benefit vs. Risk: How FDA Approves New Drugs). CDER does not test drugs, although the Center's Office of Testing and Research does conduct limited research in the areas of drug quality, safety, and effectiveness.
FHA	https://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/federal-health-architecture-fha Steve Wagner / Jay Lyle Federal Health Architecture
HIPAA	http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ For all other non-privacy related inquiries to OCR, including comments or questions about OCR's web site, please send an e-mail to OCRMail@hhs.gov, call the OCR toll-free number at (800) 368-1019 Health Information Portability Account Act (HIPAA) is administered by the Office for Civil Rights - To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the health care system, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, Public Law 104-191, included Administrative Simplification provisions that required HHS to adopt national standards for electronic health care transactions. At the same time, Congress recognized that advances in electronic technology could erode the privacy of health information. Consequently, Congress incorporated into HIPAA provisions that mandated the adoption of Federal privacy protections for individually identifiable health information.
HITSP	http://www.hitsp.org/ hitsp@ansi.org Health Information Technology Standards Panel
HL7	https://www.hl7.org/ Health Level Seven, Inc., 3300 Washtenaw Avenue, Suite 227, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. USA: (+1) 734-677-7777 (phone) (+1) 734-677-6622 (fax). E-mail: hq@hl7.org Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI) -accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare arena. Most SDOs produce standards (sometimes called specifications or protocols) for a particular healthcare domain such as pharmacy, medical devices, imaging or insurance (claims processing) transactions. Health Level Seven's domain is clinical and administrative data.
IANA	https://www.iana.org/ iana@iana.org The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources.
IHTSDO	http://www.ihtsdo.org http://www.ihtsdo.org/contact-us/ International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization is a not-for-profit association that develops and promotes use of SNOMED CT to support safe and effective health information exchange. SNOMED CT is a clinical terminology and is considered to be the most comprehensive, multilingual healthcare terminology in the world.
ISO	http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm http://www.iso.org/iso/support/contact_iso.htm ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards. ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system. ISO is a non-governmental organization that forms a bridge between the public and private sectors. On the one hand, many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government. On the other hand, other members have their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by national partnerships of industry associations. Therefore, ISO enables a consensus to be reached on solutions that meet both the requirements of business and the broader needs of society.
LOC	https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/ https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/faq.html The Library of Congress has been designated the ISO 639-2/RA for the purpose of processing requests for alpha-3 language codes comprising the International Standard, Codes for the representation of names of languages-- Part 2: alpha-3 code.
LOINC	https://loinc.org/ https://loinc.org/contact-info The purpose of LOINC® is to facilitate the exchange and pooling of clinical results for clinical care, outcomes management, and research by providing a set of universal codes and names to identify laboratory and other clinical observations.
NAACCR	https://www.naaccr.org/ North American Association of Central Cancer Registry
NCIEVS	https://cbiit.nci.nih.gov/ ncicb@pop.nci.nih.gov NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services encompass terminology development, terminology licensing, software development and licensing and operations support activities
NGA	https://www.nga.mil Customers needing assistance with maps, imagery products, technical issues with the NGA web site or GEOINT Online can contact the customer help desk at 800-455-0899. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a Department of Defense combat support agency and a member of the national Intelligence Community (IC). NGA develops imagery and map-based intelligence solutions for U.S. national defense, homeland security and safety of navigation.
NLM	https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/contact.shtml The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
NUBC	http://www.nubc.org/ The principal goal of the National Uniform Billing Committee is to develop, promote, and maintain a uniform standard data set and format(s) which can be used by the institutional health care community to transmit related charge and claim information to all third-party payers.
PHDSC	http://phdsc.org/ http://phdsc.org/about/contact.asp The Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC, The Consortium) is a national non-profit membership-based organization of federal, state, and local health agencies; professional associations, academia; public and private sector organizations; international members; and individuals. Its goal is to empower the healthcare and public health communities with health information technology standards to improve individual and community health.
Regenstrief Institute	https://www.regenstrief.org/ https://www.regenstrief.org/contactus/ Regenstrief Institute, Inc., an internationally recognized informatics and healthcare research organization, is dedicated to the improvement of health through research that enhances the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare. Established in 1969 by philanthropist Sam Regenstrief on the campus of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, the Institute is supported by the Regenstrief Foundation and closely affiliated with the IU School of Medicine and the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Indiana.
U.S. Census Bureau	http://www.census.gov/ Bureau of the Census, Geography Division, Michael Fournier, (301) 457-1099, mfournier@geo.census.gov The U.S. Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. The Census Bureau's Strategic Plan describes a common mission, identifies strategies to achieve the mission, and sets critical indicators of progress.
U.S. DOS	https://www.state.gov/s/inr/rls/4250.htm https://register.state.gov/contactus/ U.S.Department of State, Washington, DC
USDA APHIS	https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/home/ USDA APHIS Washington D.C. "Protecting American agriculture" is the basic charge of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). APHIS provides leadership in ensuring the health and care of animals and plants.
USGS	https://www.usgs.gov/ https://answers.usgs.gov/ U.S. Geological Survey serves the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.
VA	https://www.va.gov/ https://www.va.gov/landing2_contact.htm The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was established on March 15, 1989, succeeding the Veterans Administration. It is responsible for providing federal benefits to veterans and their families. Headed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, VA is the second-largest of the 15 Cabinet departments and operates nationwide programs for health care, financial assistance and burial benefits.
WHO	http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/ info@who.int WHO - World Health Organization: Directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations. Provides leadership, shapes the health research agenda, sets norms and standards, articulates evidence-based policy options, provides technical support.

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Page last updated:June 20, 2024
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