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Section 1d: Version 2 (V2)
Section 3: Implementation Guides

HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Syndromic Surveillance, Release 1 - US Realm

DESCRIPTION

This guide provides:

  • An HL7 implementation and content reference standard for facilitating syndromic surveillance electronic health record technology certification
  • A template for local and state syndromic surveillance implementation guides or for profiles, trading partner agreements, or constraints on this standard for specific purposes or trading partners.
  • A planning resource for the increasing use of electronic health records, including details on health data elements that could become requirements for public health syndromic surveillance

 

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Syndromic Surveillance, Release 1 - US Realm may also go by the following names or acronyms:

"HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Syndromic Surveillance, R1 - US Realm", Syndromic Surveillance Message Guide

TARGETS

  • EHR, PHR Vendors
  • Health Care IT Vendors
  • Local and State Departments of Health
  • Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health)

BENEFITS

  • Enables improved public health situational awareness, emergency response management, and outbreak recognition and characterization particularly useful to local, state, and federal PHAs.
  • Enables disparate healthcare software applications to transmit administrative and clinical data for public health surveillance and response.

 

IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES

  • Epic
  • Southern Coos Hospital, Oregon (Evident/CPSI)

 

DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND

Syndromic surveillance is a process that regularly and systematically monitors pre-diagnostic groups of symptoms (syndromes) and then uses these and other health-related data in near real-time to make information available on the health of a community. Syndromic surveillance is particularly useful to local, state, and federal PHAs for improving public health situational awareness, emergency response management, and outbreak recognition and characterization. The scope of this document is to provide guidelines for transmitting HL7 v.2.5.1-compliant messages that also conform with specific profiles that facilitate communications from emergency departments, urgent care centers, and ambulatory care and inpatient settings to the PHAs that conduct syndromic surveillance.


The intent of this guide is to facilitate data exchange between different systems for syndromic surveillance purposes. Data include:

  • Required data elements for all patient visits
  • Treatment facility information
  • Demographics, limited patient identifiable information as required by jurisdiction
  • Visit context, time, place
  • Diagnostic and pre-diagnostic information
  • Procedures
  • Vital measurements
  • Risk factor and other information
  • Acknowledgement of message receipt

 

RELATED DOCUMENTS

HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Syndromic Surveillance, Release 1 - US Realm

STU DOCUMENTS

HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Syndromic Surveillance, Release 1 - US Realm (Submit Feedback on STU)

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TOPIC

  • Public Health

BALLOT TYPE

  • STU

STATUS DATE

2019-07-26

RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP

Public Health

STAKEHOLDERS

  • EHR, PHR Vendors
  • Health Care IT Vendors
  • Healthcare Institutions
  • Local and State Departments of Health

FAMILY

  • V2