HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide: Blood Bank Donation Services (US Realm), Release 1

DESCRIPTION

The HL7 Blood Bank Donation Services Implementation Guide – U.S. Realm is a messaging specification intended to standardize the electronic transmission of information between system application components in a Blood Bank setting. While this is U.S. Realm specific, there are no constraints that are U.S. specific; rather the project team did not include sufficient International stakeholder representation to assert the outcome and this Implementation Guide is Universal in nature.

This Implementation Guide is specific to the interoperability to support activities related to the registration, screening for eligibility, donation, and collection of blood from a human. The goal of this specification is to provide an applicable specification that can be adopted as an industry standard, thereby obviating the need for individual vendors to define anew the specifications of each Donation Service interface required.

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide: Blood Bank Donation Services (US Realm), Release 1 may also go by the following names or acronyms:

TARGETS

• Clinical data exchange systems found in the Blood Donation community groups
• Blood Centers in the United States of America - Any service center that performs the collection of blood
• Physician’s Offices – Any care practice, clinic, hospital, individual physician, or department that orders directed or autologous (self) donations

BENEFITS

• Supports electronic interoperability activities related to the registration, screening for eligibility, donation, and collection of blood from a human
• Provides applicable definitions that can be adopted as an industry standard, thereby obviating the need for individual vendors to define anew the specifications of each Donation Service interface required

IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES

• In development

DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND

A group of industry experts, brought together by Jonathan Harber of America's Blood Centers, developed this implementation guide and the new standards elements adopted as part of the HL7 v2.8 Standard during 2009 and 2010.

RELATED DOCUMENTS

HL7 Version 2.6 Implementation Guide: Blood Bank Donation Services (US Realm), Release 1

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TOPIC

• Laboratory

BALLOT TYPE

• Informative

STATUS DATE

2012-01-26

RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP

FAMILY

• V2

CURRENT STATE

• Stable

REALM

• US Realm