| Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) |
Resource Development |
CMS, ONC |
NLM |
NLM maintains the Value Set Authority Center (VSAC), an online repository of value sets (code sets from standardized medical vocabularies) used for clinical quality measurement in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, also known as “Meaningful Use”. The VSAC provides downloadable access to all official versions of vocabulary value sets contained in the electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) from CMS and Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) data from Health Level Seven International, or HL7. NLM works with CMS and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC) to publish the eCQM and C-CDA value sets in VSAC for public use in the United States. Each value set consists of the numerical values (codes) and human-readable names (terms) drawn from standard vocabularies such as SNOMED CT ®, RxNorm, LOINC ®, and ICD-10-CM, which are used to define clinical concepts used in clinical quality measures (e.g., patients with diabetes, clinical visits). NLM, CMS, and ASTP/ONC work together to provide technical features in VSAC that support the use of eCQM and C-CDA data. http://vsac.nlm.nih.govhttp://vsac.nlm.nih.gov |
| Veterans Affairs Science and Health Initiative to Combat Infectious and Emerging Life-threatening Diseases |
Other |
CDC |
NIAID |
Advancing rapid detection, therapy and prevention of emerging diseases aimed at improving the quality and safety of health care for Veterans. |
| Virology Interest Group |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
FDA |
NCI, NHLBI, NIAID, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIMH, NINDS |
The Virology Interest Group comprises researchers at NIH and in the local area who are interested in virology. The group organizes activities designed to promote interactions and exchange information. |
| Virology Quality Assurance Program |
Other |
CDC |
NIAID |
The Virology Quality Assurance Program (VQA) is a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded contract that is designed to provide quality assurance and proficiency testing for virologic-based assays for HIV and other viral pathogens that are conducted in NIAID-supported laboratories performing assays on samples from subjects enrolled in multisite clinical studies. In a partnership with the Center for Disease Control, VQA is currently supporting external quality assurance for virological assays performed through the CDC-supported laboratory in Zimbabwe. |
| Vivek H. Murthy Distinguished Lecture Series for Public Health Leadership: Fostering Social Connection to Enhance Health and Wellbeing |
Meeting/ Workshop |
OSG |
NIMHD |
This is an annual event held in collaboration with the NIH chapter of the Federal Asian and Pacific American Council (FAPAC) to commemorate Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander month in May. Each year, Dr. Murthy recognizes a leader in the AA and NHPI community. During the May 2024 event, Dr. Murthy recognized Hahrie Han, Ph.D., Professor and Inaugural Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, for her leadership in exploring social connections with health wellbeing. The event featured an introduction from NIH Leadership, followed by a conversation between Drs. Murthy and Han, moderated by NIMHD Deputy Director, Monica Webb Hooper, Ph.D. |
| Weighting methods for healthy worker survivor bias |
Research Initiative |
CDC |
NCI |
In collaboration with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, we are developing new methods to address healthy worker survivor bias, a bias in occupational studies that can result in underestimates about the effects of occupational exposures on cancer outcomes. |
| Well-Being Workgroup |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
IOS/ODPHP, ACL, CDC, FDA, HRSA, SAMHSA |
NCCIH, NIA, NIMHD, OD/DPCPSI/ODP |
The Well-Being Workgroup is a cross-agency activity organized by the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) to increase understanding of the various dimensions of well-being and leverage federal efforts to support Overall Health and Well-Being Measures within the Healthy People initiative. Workgroup goals include identifying definitions, terminology, frameworks, and metrics; creating a collaborative space for sharing information and resources; securing resources to fund data collection for well-being via nationally representative and reliable data sources (e.g., NHIS). The guiding principle for the WG is to “Understand federal efforts to address well-being to inform the Healthy People initiative, including implementation of its Overall Health and Well-being Measures (OHMs) and development of Healthy People 2040.” |
| White House Cancer Moonshot Data and Innovation Task Force |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
FDA |
NCI |
The Cancer Cabinet was convened by the White House, bringing together cabinet agencies and relevant departments, including multiple White House components to address progress against cancer in five priority actions.(1) close the screening gap, (2) understand and address environmental exposure, (3) decrease the impact of preventable cancers, (4) bring cutting edge research through the pipeline to patients and communities, and (5) support patients and caregivers. This WG is focused on different tasks related to cancer data and innovation, including support for innovative clinical trial design and development; work group focus areas include 1) decentralizing clinical trials 2) innovative clinical trial design. |
| White House Cancer Moonshot Data and Innovation Task Force - Data Standards and Interoperability Working Group |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
FDA, OSTP |
NCI |
Co-lead group developing standard data elements to facilitate clinical trial matching, immune-related adverse event reporting, cancer registry reporting, and AI. Work is aligned with HHS working group and USCDI+ |
| White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
OASH |
NCI |
Support conference to address national hunger and malnutrition |