Section 1b: EHR - Electronic Health Records
HL7 EHR-S FM R2.1 Functional Profile: Pediatric Health Care IT, Release 1 - US Realm
DESCRIPTION
HL7 Pediatric Care Health IT Functional Profile is an Informative Standard that describes the electronic health record functionality supporting child health care in the United States. The standard supports the Recommendations for the Voluntary Certification of Health IT for Use in Pediatric Care settings, as published by the 21st Century Cures Act and the U.S. ONC Health IT Certification Program. It also leverages existing work published by AHRQ's Child Health EHR Format, as well as gather input from child health EHR subject matter experts within the HL7 and from the pediatric community at large. This standard also serves to complement the previous child health specific HL7 standards, including HL7 Child Health Functional Profile Release 1 (2008, 2019) and HL7 Developmental Screening and Reporting Services Derived Profile, Release 1.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
HL7 EHR-S FM R2.1 Functional Profile: Pediatric Health Care IT, Release 1 - US Realm may also go by the following names or acronyms:
BENEFITS
- Enables child health providers, EHR vendors, healthcare institutions and other interested parties (such as governing/regulatory bodies, HIT certification organizations, among others) to leverage the standard to learn about the pediatric-specific functions that clinical information systems must have to support child health care.
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TOPIC
- Care Provision
BALLOT TYPE
- Informative
STATUS DATE
2022-05-04RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP
PRODUCT TYPE
- Functional Profile
STAKEHOLDERS
- Clinical Decision Support Systems Vendors
- EHR, PHR Vendors
- Emergency Services Providers
- Health Care IT Vendors
- Healthcare Institutions
- HIS Vendors
- Immunization Registries
- Local and State Departments of Health
- Payors
- Quality Reporting Agencies
- Regulatory Agency
- Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)
FAMILY
- EHR
CURRENT STATE
- Active
REALM
- US Realm