Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 241 / Monday, December 17, 2007 / Notices 71413 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Heart, Lung, and Blood 

Institute; Notice of Closed Meeting 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice 

is hereby given of the following 

meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Heart, Lung, 

and Blood Institute Special Emphasis Panel, 

NHLBI Patient-Oriented Research and Career 

Enhancement Award for Stem Cell Research. 

Date: December 21, 2007. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, 7192, Bethesda, MD 20892, 

(Telephone Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Mark Roltsch, PhD, 

Scientific Review Administrator, Review 

Branch/DERA, National Heart, Lung, and 

Blood Institute, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 

7192, Bethesda, MD 20892–7924, 301–435–

0287, roltschm@nhlbi.nih.gov. 

This notice is being published less than 15 

days prior to meeting due to the timing 

limitations imposed by the review and 

funding cycle. 

Any interested person may file written 

comments with the committee by forwarding 

the statement to the Contact Person listed on 

this notice. The statement should include the 

name, address, telephone number and when 

applicable, the business or professional 

affiliation of the interested person. 

In the interest of security, NIH has 

instituted stringent procedures for entrance 

onto the NIH campus. All visitor vehicles, 

including taxicabs, hotel, and airport shuttles 

will be inspected before being allowed on 

campus. Visitors will be asked to show one 

form of identification (for example, a 

government-issued photo ID, driver’s license, 

or passport) and to state the purpose of their 

visit. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.233, National Center for 

Sleep Disorders Research; 93.837, Heart and 

Vascular Diseases Research; 93.838, Lung 

Diseases Research; 93.839, Blood Diseases 

and Resources Research, National Institutes 

of Health, HHS) 

Dated: December 10, 2007. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 07–6053 Filed 12–14–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Additional Consolidated Health 

Information (CHI) Health Information 

Technology Standards 

AGENCY: Federal Health Architecture 

(FHA), Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health Information 

Technology (ONC). 

ACTION: Notice: Additional Consolidated 

Health Informatics (CHI) Health 

Information Technology Standards. 

SUMMARY: This notice identifies three (3) 

additional Consolidated Health 

Informatics (CHI) messaging and 

vocabulary standards (Multimedia, 

Allergy, and Disability and 

Assessments) adopted for use in Federal 

government health information 

technology systems. This work 

supplements the work to further the 

adoption of the first set of 5 standards 

adopted on March 21, 2003 and second 

set of 15 standards adopted on May 6, 

2004, as published in the December 23, 

2005 Federal Register (70 FR 76287). 

The CHI initiative began in October 

2001 as one of 24 E-Government 

initiatives included in the President’s 

Management Agenda (PMA). The CHI 

collaborative worked to adopt Federal 

government-wide health information 

interoperability standards to be 

implemented by Federal agencies in 

order to enable the Fedral government 

to exchange electronic health 

information. By publication of this 

document, we are informing the public 

of the adoption of three new CHI 

standards, Multimedia, Allergy and 

Disability and Assessment (adoption 

reports available at: http://www.hhs.gov/ 

healthit/chiinitiative.html). 

CHI Adopted Standards 

As a result of work completed in 

furtherance of CHI, the three new 

domain areas and associated clinical 

standards that have been adopted are 

noted in the individual standards 

adoption reports found at http:// 

www.hhs.gov/healthit/chiinitiative.html 

and are summarized below: 

1. Multimedia Messaging Standard: 

• National Electrical Manufacturer’s 

Association (NEMA) Digital Imaging 

and Communications in Medicine 

(DICOMSM) 2004 Standard and higher. 

2. Allergy Messaging and Vocabulary 

Standard: 

• Health Level Seven (HL7) HL7

2.4 and higher messaging standard 

allergy information segments. 

• College of American Pathologists 

(CAP) Systematized Nomenclature of 

Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED 

CT) for allergy type, severity and 

reaction codes. 

• National Library of Medicine (NLM) 

RxNorm for brand name allergen code. 

• Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA) Unique Ingredient Identifier 

(UNII) codes for ingredient name 

allergen code. 

• Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) 

National Drug File-Reference 

Terminology (NDF-RT) for drug class 

allergen code. 

• 3. Disability and Assessments: 

• Regenstrief Institute, Inc LOINC

(Logical Observation Identifiers Names 

and Codes) representation and codes 

for questions and answers on federallyrequired assessment forms; 

• CHI-endorsed semantic vocabulary 

matches linked with the LOINC

assessment questions and answers; and 

• HL7 v2.4 and higher messaging 

standard and the HL7 CDA (Clinical 

Document Architecture (CDA)) for 

exchanging standardized federallyrequired assessment content. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2006, 

the CHI initiative was transitioned to 

the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) 

under the Office of the National 

Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). 

Currently, the CHI standards are being 

coordinated with the public/private 

processes of Healthcare Information 

Technology Standards Panel (HITSP). 

HITSP serves as a cooperative 

partnership between the public and 

private sectors for the purpose of 

achieving a widely accepted and useful 

set of standards specifically to enable 

and support widespread interoperability 

among healthcare software systems, as 

they will interact in a local, regional, 

and nationwide health information 

network. 

CHI endorsement has been identified 

as one of the HITSP standards adoption 

criteria employed to adopt standards for 

the HITSP Interoperability 

Specifications. The HITSP 

Interoperability Specifications are 

developed to advance the national 

agenda for secure, interoperable health 

information systems. (Notice of 

Availability, 72 FR. 9339 (March 1, 

2007). 

Collection of Information Requirements 

This notice does not impose 

information collection and 

recordkeeping requirements subject to 


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