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You have been hired as an informatician at a state health
department. The health department is developing systems to receive
laboratory and clinical case reports from clinical settings, such
as hospitals and doctor's offices. Your state has had an
immunization registry in operation for several years and has been
successful in getting cooperation from healthcare settings to send
data to the system.
What standard vocabulary is used to code a vaccine name and how is this vocabulary different from the LOINC or SNOMED-CT vocabularies required for laboratory and clinical case reporting?
The CDC's National Center of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases developed and maintains the CVX (vaccine administered) code set. It includes both active and inactive vaccines available in the US. CVX codes for inactive vaccines allow transmission of historical immunization records. When a MVX (manufacturer) code is paired with a CVX (vaccine administered) code, the specific trade named vaccine may be activated.
The Status column indicates if the vaccine is currently available in the United States.
PHIN Vocabulary Services strives to enable the consistent and accurate representation of information by encouraging and supporting the use of Vocabulary Standards to promote semantic interoperability among public health systems. Working with Standard Development Organization (SDOs) terminology experts and other subject matter experts, PHIN Services actively participates in the development and identification of vocabularies important to the public health arena. SDOs include Systematized Nomenclature for Medicine (SNOMED), Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC).