Table 2.

Examples of health IT standards that are used to specify and report eMeasures

Part of Specification	Standard	Standards Development Organization
Data Element Criteria and Logic	Health Quality Measure Format	Health Level Seven
Measure Result Reports	Quality Reporting Data Architecture
Medications	RxNorm	NLM
Laboratory Test Names	LOINC	Regenstrief Institute
Condition/Diagnosis/Problem	SNOMED CT	IHTSDO, WHO

IHTSDO: International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation

LOINC: Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

NLM: National Library of Medicine

WHO: World Health Organization