Electronic Health Records

Government Projects (Archived)

Below is a list of the current products this work group is stewarding.

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Name Description Type
HL7 CCD to ASCII Blue Button Transform, Release 1

The healthcare system is in the midst of a revolution in healthcare information technology. Central to this revolution are technologies that facilitate health information exchange between providers and promote patient engagement and self-management. The Blue Button®, developed by the...

HL7 EHR Behavioral Health Functional Profile, Release 1

This HL7 EHR Behavioral Health Functional Profile (EHR BH FP) contains the functions and conformance criteria deemed important for behavioral health care providers' clinical records systems. At a minimum, this profile provides a shopping list of capabilities a behavi...

Normative
HL7 EHR Child Health Functional Profile (CHFP), Release 1

The HL7 Child Health Functional Profile for EHR Systems (Child Health Profile) is designed to assist children's healthcare providers and associated IT vendors to create functionality that ensures safe and reliable care of children through the effective use of information technology. Specif...

Normative
HL7 EHR Clinical Research Functional Profile (CRFP), Release 1

The EHR Clinical Research Functional Profile (EHR CR FP) provides high-level functional requirements necessary for using electronic health record (EHR) data for regulated clinical research. It also provides a roadmap towards an evolutionary process of integrating the environment that provid...

Normative
HL7 EHR Pharmacist/Pharmacy Provider Functional Profile, Release 1

The Pharmacist/Pharmacy Provider Functional Profile will facilitate EHR systems capture of medication and clinical related data at the point of contact or point of care by specifying the functional requirements needed to support messaging among prescribers, pharmacist and pharma...

Normative
HL7 EHR System Long Term Care Functional Profile, Release 1 - US Realm

The HL7 EHR System Long Term Care Functional Profile (LTC EHR-S FP) establishes the functions and conformance criteria for EHR systems in the nursing home setting for the US Realm, and will serve as a key resource to the Certification Commi...

Normative
HL7 EHR-S FM R2 Computable Artifacts for R2.0.1 Errata

The Electronic Health Record System Function Model Release 2.0.1 builds on Release 2 of the model. R2 offered a more comprehensive set of functions and criteria compared to R1.1.   The work on R2 is informed by industry advances/directions, regulatory changes,  ...

HL7 EHR-S FM R2.1 Functional Profile: Pediatric Health Care IT, Release 1 - US Realm

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 Pediat...

Informative
HL7 EHR-S Functional Profile: Meaningful Use, Release 1 - US Realm

The HL7 Meaningful Use Functional Profile (MU FP) conforms to the HL7 EHR-S FM Release 2.0 and identifies functional requirements and conformance criteria corresponding to US Meaningful Use Stage 1 and 2 certification criteria. 

The ...

Informative
HL7 EHR-S Vital Records Functional Profile, Release 1 - US Realm

The Electronic Health Record System Vital Records Functional Profile (VRFP) identifies Electronic Health Record system functions that support the capture of vital records (Birth, Fetal Death and Death-related) information at the point of contact or point of care. The VRFP articulates the fu...

Informative
HL7 EHR-System Electronic Nutrition Care Process Record System (ENCPRS) Functional Profile, Release 2

The Electronic Nutrition Care Process Record System (ENCPRS) Functional Profile is based on the Electronic Health Record System Functional Model R2 (EHRS-FM). The intent is to develop a standard list of functions and criteria needed for full integration of both the Nutrition Care Process (NCP) ...

Normative
HL7 EHR-System ePrescribing Functional Profile, Release 1

Prescribers and pharmacies (pharmacists) for several years have been communicating electronic prescription information using the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) SCRIPT standard. In July of 2004, sixteen participants from HL7 and NCPDP launched the NCPDP-...

Informative
HL7 EHR-System Functional Model, R2

The Electronic Health Record System Function Model Release 2 builds on Release 1.1 of the model, offering a more comprehensive set of functions and criteria.   The work is informed by industry advances/directions, regulatory changes,  learning from work from functi...

Normative
HL7 EHR-System Public Health Functional Profile, Release 2

This HL7 Electronic Health Record System Public Health Functional Profile (PHFP) identifies functional requirements and conformance criteria for public health clinical information collection, management and exchanges that include specific public health programs (domains), namely: Vital Record...

Informative
HL7 EHRS-FM R2.0.1: Usability Functional Profile, Release 1

List of Functions and Conformance Criteria that promote the usability of electronic health record systems.

Informative
HL7 EHRS-FM Release 2 Functional Profile: 2015 Meaningful Use, Release 1 – US Realm

The HL7 Meaningful Use 2015 Edition Functional Profile (MU FP) conforms to the HL7 EHR-S FM Release 2.01 and identifies functional requirements and conformance criteria corresponding to US Meaningful Use 2015 Edition EHR Incentive Program certification criteria and Test P...

Normative
HL7 EHRS-FM Release 2 Functional Profile: Child Health Functional Profile Release 1; Developmental Screening and Reporting Services Derived Profile, Release 1 - US Realm

The HL7 Developmental Screening and Reporting Services Derived Profile, Release 1 identifies the critical EHR capabilities for pediatric Developmental Screening and Reporting services. This standard reference content and functions from the existing HL7 EHR-S Functional Model ...

Informative
HL7 EHRS-FM Release 2: Functional Profile; Work and Health, Release 1 – US Realm

The primary purpose of the Work and Health Functional Profile (WHFP) is to expand the capabilities expressed in the EHR-S FM R2 for managing a patient’s “occupational data for health” (as opposed to occupational data for administrative or billing purposes) and Intern...

Informative
HL7 EHRS-FM Release 2: Immunization Functional Profile, Release 1

The HL7 Immunization Functional Profile (of ISO/HL7 10781 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model) describes functional characteristics and conformance criteria supporting immunization management and administration in clinical practice.  This includ...

Normative
HL7 EHRS-FM Release 2: Personal Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2 (PHR-S FM)

The PHR-S FM standard will address the functional needs of Personal Health Record system developers and users. PHR information is expected to be sent, received, or exchanged from multiple systems, including: EHR systems, insurer systems, payer systems, health information exchanges, public...

Normative
HL7 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model (EHR-S FM) Release 2.1

Incremental update to the EHR System Functional Model (EHR-S FM), encompassing all the EHR functions and conformance criteria found in its predecessor Release 2, and incorporating:

  1. Changes to the Record Infrastructure Section to accommodate three addit...
Normative
HL7 Electronic Health Record-System (EHR-S) Functional Model (FM), Release 1

The HL7 International EHR System Functional Model (EHR-S FM) outlines important features and functions that should be contained in an EHR system. Through the creation of functional profiles, this model provides a standard description and common understanding of functions for he...

Normative
HL7 Electronic Health Records (EHR) Dental Health Functional Profile, Release 1- US Realm

The DHFP Release 1.01 is based on the HL7 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model and Standard (EHR-S FM) Release 2.01, July 2017. The DHFP is intended to inform software developers, users, purchasers, and other interested parties, such as payers and data aggreg...

Informative
HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Record Lifecycle Event (RLE), Edition 1

This Implementation Guide offers a methodology to support trusted electronic health record (EHR) and personal health record (PHR) management using HL7 Fast Health Interoperable Resources (FHIR). This approach is based on the Record Infrastructure Section of ISO/HL7 10781:...

Informative
HL7 Guidance: Basic Provenance for C-CDA and FHIR, Release 1 - US Realm

The Basic Provenance Informative guide provides the functional and technical guidance for communicating ‘Minimum Viable Provenance’ in CDA, and FHIR, when information is exchanged.

This informative guide is a prioritized first step toward...

Informative