HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations, Release 1 - US Realm

DESCRIPTION

Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations is increasingly being used in health information systems to indicate which vaccinations a patient is due for next. Many of these expert systems are built as stand-alone systems that respond to web service requests. While these independent systems have similar requirements and outputs they use different web service standards. This FHIR implementation guide can be used by these expert systems may use to provide a consistent and interchangeable interface.

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations, Release 1 - US Realm may also go by the following names or acronyms:

BENEFITS

• Creates a standard interface between clinical and registry systems and immunization clinical decision support engines
• Enables more rapid on boarding to CDS engines
• Enables easier testing of CDS engine capabilities by certifying organizations
• Supports enhanced patient care by ensuring up-to-date immunization recommendations are available to registry and clinical care staff

IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES

• NIST in conjunction with AIRA to promote CDS capability testing

DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND

The initiating system in this exchange is typically a system being used (either directly or indirectly) by a clinician to provide care to the patient. This can be a jurisdictional level Immunization Information System (IIS) which collates the patient’s immunization history from a variety of sources or an EHR which is being used to provide point of care support for clinicians. However other systems such as HIEs, school medical records, etc may also play this role. As described by the individual uses cases in the document, this exchange is often part of a larger workflow which is out of scope for this implementation guide.

RELATED DOCUMENTS

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations, Release 1 - US Realm

STU DOCUMENTS

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations, Release 1 - US Realm See the standard at http://hl7.org/fhir/us/immds/STU1.

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TOPICS

• Decision Support
• Public Health

BALLOT TYPE

• STU

STATUS DATE

2021-06-25

RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP

PRODUCT TYPE

• Implementation Guide

STAKEHOLDERS

• Clinical and Public Health Laboratories
• Clinical Decision Support Systems Vendors
• EHR, PHR Vendors
• Healthcare Institutions
• Immunization Registries
• Local and State Departments of Health

FAMILY

• FHIR

CURRENT STATE

• Active

REALM

• US Realm