Section 1e: Version 3 (V3)
Section 2: Clinical and Administrative Domains
HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Administration (also known as ADT - Admit, Discharge, and Transfer; Encounter Management; Administrative Registries)
DESCRIPTION
The Patient Administration standard defines the requirements and specifications to support the interoperability among clinical and non-clinical systems regarding patient encounters and administrative registries.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Administration (also known as ADT - Admit, Discharge, and Transfer; Encounter Management; Administrative Registries) may also go by the following names or acronyms:
TARGETS
- Healthcare Providers
- Healthcare Payors
BENEFITS
- Enables ability to identify requirements and provides specifications for exchanging demographic and administrative data for patients, persons, service delivery locations and patient encounters
- Enables exchange of administrative data to describe resources, their availability, [for example, represented by schedules or by status], and regulatory topics such as licensing and credentialing information about individuals, animals, organizations and devices directly or indirectly involved in the delivery of healthcare services
- Identifies requirements and provides specifications regarding the dynamic behaviors involved in requests and their fulfillment
IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES
- Helse Vest, Norway
- CSC Scandihealth, Denmark (encounter management)
DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND
Patient Administration, also known as Admit, Discharge and Transfer (ADT), supports many of the core administrative functions in healthcare such as person and patient registration and encounter management. Information is entered into a Patient or Person Registry or into a Patient Administration system, and then passed to other systems (e.g., other registries, clinical, ancillary and financial systems).
RELATED DOCUMENTS
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HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Administration (also known as ADT - Admit, Discharge, and Transfer; Encounter Management; Administrative Registries) | ||
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HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Administration, Person Registry, Release 1 | (View Brief) |
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HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Administration; Patient Encounter, Release 1 | (View Brief) |
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HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Administration; Patient Registry, Release 1 | (View Brief) |
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HL7 Version 3 Standard: Registries; Real Time Location Tracking, Release 1 | (View Brief) |
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TOPIC
- Patient Administration
BALLOT TYPE
- DSTU
- Normative
STATUS DATE
2016-04-12RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP
STAKEHOLDER
- Payors
FAMILY
- V3
CURRENT STATE
- Stable
REALM
- Universal