documentation:cdm-goals-2016
CDM and Vocabulary Workgroup Goals 2016
1. Establish a consistent transparent process to improve and change both the CDM and the Vocabulary through:
- Forum discussion
- Uniform proposal submission
- Peer vetting
- Group approval
- Documentation
2. Have at least a dozen requests vetted and implemented if approved. Candidates include:
- Consolidate payer costs from multiple to one table
- Expand the DRUG_STRENGTH table to all concept classes
- Establish conventions for denominator and quantity units in the DRUG_EXPOSURE table
- Establish conventions for tobacco smoking representation
- Improve vocabulary and establish conventions for representing procedure occurrence modifiers
- Add package or box size to the DRUG_STRENGTH table
- Provide support for more consistent and granular temporal data representation
- Add drug benefit Indicator to the PAYER_PLAN_PERIOD table
- Create model/conventions/vocabulary to represent transition of care
- Add vocabulary and conventions for survey data representation
- Add support for data provenance, harmonize vocabulary for concept types
- Add new domains: oncology, genomics, sensor
3. Improve collaboration and alignment between CDM/Vocabulary, software development, and other workgroups.
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