Confirmation

Codes for assigning sex at birth as specified by the [Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)](https www.healthit.gov newsroom about-onc)

The 41 [CDC ethnicity codes](http www.cdc.gov phin resources vocabulary index.html) that are grouped under one of the 2 OMB ethnicity category codes.

The 900+ [CDC Race codes](http www.cdc.gov phin resources vocabulary index.html) that are grouped under one of the 5 OMB race category codes.

The codes for the ethnicity categories - 'Hispanic or Latino' and 'Non Hispanic or Latino' - as defined by the [OMB Standards for Maintaining Collecting and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 as revised October 30 1997](https www.govinfo.gov content pkg FR-1997-10-30 pdf 97-28653.pdf).

The codes for the concepts 'Unknown' and 'Asked but no answer' and the the codes for the five race categories - 'American Indian' or 'Alaska Native' 'Asian' 'Black or African American' 'Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander' and 'White' - as defined by the [OMB Standards for Maintaining Collecting and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 as revised October 30 1997](https www.govinfo.gov content pkg FR-1997-10-30 pdf 97-28653.pdf) .

This value set includes codes from [BCP-47](http tools.ietf.org html bcp47). This value set matches the ONC 2015 Edition LanguageCommunication data element value set within C-CDA to use a 2 character language code if one exists and a 3 character code if a 2 character code does not exist. It points back to [RFC 5646](https tools.ietf.org html rfc5646) however only the language codes are required all other elements are optional.

Documentation of substances suspected of (or not suspected of) causing an allergy or intolerance reaction in an individual. **Inclusion Criteria ** specific or general substances to which a patient may be exposed and which may be suspected of causing an adverse reaction; assertions refuting these suspicions. This includes 1. Common dietary substances for allergy and intolerance documentation (SNOMEDCT) 2. Common drug classes for allergy and intolerance documentation (SNOMEDCT) 3. Common drug substances for allergy and intolerance documentation (RXNORM) 4. Common environmental substances for allergy and intolerance documentation (SNOMEDCT) 5. Common refutations and null values for substance causes for allergy and intolerance documentation (SNOMEDCT) **Exclusion Criteria ** actual conditions caused by exposure (reactions allergies)

Provider roles codes consist of NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy Code Set for providers and SNOMED-CT for - non clinical and organization roles including codes from the SCTID 223366009 Healthcare professional (occupation) heirarchy and the SCTID 224930009 Services (qualifier value) heirarchy.

The US Core Clinical Note Type Value Set is a 'starter set' of types supported for fetching and storing clinical notes.

The US Core Condition Category Codes support the separate concepts of problems and health concerns in Condition.category in order for API consumers to be able to separate health concerns and problems. However this is not mandatory for 2015 certification