United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK)

Abstract

The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) is an online, publicly accessible registry/repository of healthcare metadata originally developed by Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) and currently maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). It contains metadata for various healthcare standards, measures, forms and other data sets. Its users include researchers, Standards Development Organisations (SDOs), clinicians, Electronic Health Record (EHR) developers and users, and various Federal- and state-level government entities. USHIK provides the capability to visually organise summary metadata, analyse metadata sets and interactively compare metadata sets. This functionality can be used for analysing and harmonising standards, measures and other healthcare data sets.