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Health Level Seven International
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EHR Project Overview
In April of 2003, the HL7 Board of Directors approved the HL7 EHR SIG's request to develop a functional model of an electronic health record system. While the HL7 EHR SIG has been in existence since 2001, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was the catalyst for accelerating the development of this model. It is our belief that use of the EHR functional model will improve the quality of care, reduce the cost of care and provide better access to more fine grained clinical data.The proposed functional model is based on two axes: functions and care settings. The functional axis is a hierarchy of the essential, desirable and optional EHR functions across all care settings, with functions organized into care setting and infrastructure categories. Each care setting ( e.g., inpatient, ambulatory) has an accompanying normative profile to define how it uses the defined functions and identifying any care setting specific functions. The EHR SIG is coordinating the definition of the care settings with the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which will publish a patient safety report in August. The care delivery and infrastructure functions as well as the high-level, generic care setting as collaborated on with the IOM will be the content of the ballot draft which is opened on July 25, 2003.
In addition to the normative profiles, different professional societies, providers, vendors or regulators could provide "registered" profiles that further constrain or add options to the normative profile. The ballot and model will be written in user oriented language to facilitate understanding from the healthcare community who, it is hoped, will actively use the model to communicate functional needs and/or capability.
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