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This page documents a [[:category:Approved FHIR Resource Proposal|Approved]] [[:category:FHIR Resource Proposal|FHIR Resource Proposal]]
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[[Category:FHIR Resource Proposal]]
[[Category:Approved FHIR Resource Proposal]]


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=Communication=

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* Lower camel case
* U.S. English
* Domain-friendly
* Short
* Clear
* Unique
* Avoid non-universal abbreviations (e.g. URL would be ok)
* Be expressed as a noun
* Be consistent with other similar resources
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==Owning committee name==

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[[Clinical Quality Information Work Group]]

==Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups==

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* [[Clinical Decision Support Workgroup]]
* [[Patient Care]]

==FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID==

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==Scope of coverage==

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Scope should consider numerous aspects of breadth of scope, including:
* Subject: Human vs. non-human vs. non-patient (e.g. lab bench medicine)
* Disciplines: Environmental Health, Palliative, Respiratory, Psychology, Maternity, Clinical Research
* Delivery environment (Community, Geriatric, Home care, Emergency, Inpatient, Intensive, Neonatal, Pediatric, Primary)
* Locale: Country, region

As a rule, resources should encompass all of these aspects.
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This resource is a record of a communication. A communication is a conveyance of information from one entity, a sender, to another entity, a receiver. The sender and receivers may be patients, practitioners, related persons, organizations, and devices. Communication use cases include 
* A reminder or alert delivered to a responsible provider
* A recorded notification from the nurse that a patient's temperature exceeds a value
* A notification to a public health agency of a patient presenting with a communicable disease reportable to the public health agency
* Patient educational material sent by a provider to a patient

==RIM scope==

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Lloyd to provide

==Resource appropriateness==

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Must
* Represents a well understood, "important" concept in the business of healthcare
* Represents a concept expected to be tracked with distinct, reliable, unique ids
* Reasonable for the resource to be independently created, queried and maintained

Should
* Declared interest in need for standardization of data exchange</span>
* Resource is expected to contain an appropriate number of "core" (non-extension) data elements (in most cases, somewhere in the range of 20-50)
* Have the characteristics of high cohesion & low coupling – need to explore whether coupling is good some places, not elsewhere – layers from Bo’s document 
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* Communications are foundational to the coordination and delivery of care. The Communication resource captures communications between the various stakeholders involved in the provision of care. This may include provider-to-provider exchanges as well as patient-to-provider exchanges. Communications are not limited to human senders and recipients.

==Expected implementations==

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* Unified communication systems in a SOA environment.
* FHIR Profiles for Quality

==Content sources==

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Are there any source specifications that you wish to consult but are concerned about access to or expertise to consider? -->

==Example Scenarios==

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Refer to 'Scope of Coverage' for some examples.

==Resource Relationships==

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What resources do you expect this resource reference and in what context?

Note: These may be existing resources or "expected" resource

Reference to resources is really only relevant at the "same or higher level" (Bo – fix this wording)
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This resource is a record of a communication that was performed. A communication is a conveyance of information from one entity, a sender, to another entity, a receiver. The sender and receivers may be patients, practitioners, related persons, organizations, and devices. 

Please refer to the proposed resource definition: http://hl7-fhir.github.io/communication.html

==Timelines==

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May 2015 DSTU

==gForge Users==

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