Section 1a: Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®)
Section 3: Implementation Guides
HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: C-CDA R2.1 Supplemental Templates for Pregnancy Status, Release 1 - US Realm
DESCRIPTION
This implementation guide (IG) provides consistent guidance for capturing key pregnancy status information in healthcare information technology (HIT) products and contains optional supplemental pregnancy status templates for current C-CDA document types.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: C-CDA R2.1 Supplemental Templates for Pregnancy Status, Release 1 - US Realm may also go by the following names or acronyms:
TARGETS
- Immunization Registries
- Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)
- Health Care IT Vendors
- Emergency Services Vendors
- Local and State Departments of Health
- Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health)
BENEFITS
- Supports ability for public health agencies and clinical organizations to receive pregnancy status data, especially during an outbreak like Zika virus, is vital to ensure appropriate testing and follow-up care for patients, particularly exposed pregnant women and their infants. However, the need is also applicable to other reportable conditions (e.g., Hepatitis, Syphilis, and HIV) where pregnancy status is relevant and for other clinical and population health activities.
IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES
- CDC
DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND
This guide specifies a Pregnancy Section that uses templates defined here for use in any of the existing C-CDA document types and any other related document types that need to record pregnancy information, for example, C-CDA transition of care document types such as CCD, Transfer Summary, Discharge Summary, and Consultation Note as well as non-C-CDA documents such as the Public Health Case Report, Release 2 - US Realm - the Electronic Initial Case Report (eICR) .
RELATED DOCUMENTS
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STU DOCUMENTS
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS
SUPPORT FILES
Additional informative XML support files (such as sample files, Schematron validation files, sample stylesheet) can be downloaded from this GForge link (https://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/strucdoc/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2FC-CDA_PREGNANCY%2FCDAR2_IG_PREGNANCY_R1_D1%2F). See the “_readme.txt” file included in the STU document download for more details.
TOPICS
- Patient Care
- Patient Referral
- Public Health
BALLOT TYPE
- STU
STATUS DATE
2019-01-17RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP
STAKEHOLDERS
- Health Care IT Vendors
- Healthcare Institutions
- Immunization Registries
- Local and State Departments of Health
- Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)
FAMILY
- CDA
CURRENT STATE
- Active
REALM
- US Realm