Welcome

Welcome to the HL7 Electronic Health Record (EHR) Work Group's Home Page. HL7 originally established an EHR special interest group (SIG) in 2001 to begin its efforts on EHR Systems (EHR-S) standards. Given the growing importance of EHR standards, HL7 elevated the SIG to Technical Committee status.

This site is a gateway for information related to the ongoing HL7's Electronic Health Record Systems standards development work. You will find information describing the Work Group's work, how to get involved in a project, how to contribute to the ANSI-approved EHR-S Functional Model (EHR-S FM), and EHR Interoperability Model (EHR/IM), the new Personal Health Record Systems Functional Model (PHR-S FM) and future ballots, and information about other organizations that continue to support this critical initiative. Use the navigation menu in the left margin to read up on the work performed by the HL7 EHR Work Group and the numerous technical, policy, and care provider contributors.

Announcements:

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Call for Participation: Vital Records Profile
We are recruiting volunteers to serve on the Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S) Vital Records (VR) Functional Profile Work Group. Federal, state and local vital records representatives, Electronic Health Records and vital records systems developers, funeral directors, healthcare providers, subject matter experts and other stakeholders are encouraged to join this work group. Click on the documents below to access more information about this project:

HR-S VR Functional Profile WG list.xls
EHR TC Vital Records Profile Call for Participation_Final_l031208.doc

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The HL7 EHR Work Group is pleased to announce the inclusion of the new ChildHealth Profile to the HL7 Electronic Health Record (EHR) System Registry. This registry provides for the submission and listing of EHR System Functional Profiles that conform to the EHR-S FM Standard. Anyone can use the Registry to view or search for an EHR System Functional Profile or to submit a profile. Currently, there are three registered profiles: the Emergency Department Information Systems Profile, the Legal EHR profile, and the new ChildHealth profile.

See link below to access the EHR-System Registry

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The Coming to Terms: Scoping Interoperability for Healthcare whitepaper and supporting documents are now available as a "package" of files separate from the HL7 EHR Interoperability Model DSTU.

See link listed below to access this excellent resource

Getting Familiar with EHR

The goal of the EHR Work Group is to further the HL7 mission of designing standards to support the exchange of information for clinical decisions and treatments, and help lay the groundwork for nationwide interoperability by providing common language parameters that can be used in developing systems that support electronic records.

The HL7 EHR TC Charter explains the mission of the EHR TC. Other background resources include:

• Download the EHR Behavioral Health Functional Profile, R1 in Word or PDF.
• Download the EHR Child Health Functional Profile, R1 in Word or PDF.
• Download the 2008 Personal Health Record-System Functional Model DSTU
• Download Resources for Creating an EHR-S Functional Profile
• Access the EHR-S Profile Registry to view, download or submit functional profiles
• Download the 2007 EHR-S FM
• Download the 2007 EHR Interoperability Model DSTU
• Download Coming to Terms: Scoping Interoperability for Healthcare whitepaper and supporting documents
• Read the Project Overview
• Read the HL7 Newsletter Article
• Download the 2004 EHR-S FM DSTU

List Service

Join the EHR TC general list to receive weekly meeting agendas, calls for participation, and latest news and event announcements. All are encouraged and welcome to join in ongoing discussions.

Click here to sign up for the general EHR TC list service.

How to Get Involved

• Join the EHR Email Lists
• Attend our Quarterly meetings at HL7 events
• Participate in the HL7 Weekly Teleconference Meetings (recurring each Tuesday, 3:30 pm ET)
• Contribute or help lead an EHR TC work group effort by contacting an EHR TC Co-Chair (Participation)