Product EHR CR FP

Product Brief - HL7 EHR Clinical Research Functional Profile (EHR CR FP)

Electronic Health Record Systems - Clinical Research Functional Profile

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Product Name

Electronic Health Record Systems - Clinical Research Functional Profile(EHR CR FP)

Standard Category

Application Functional Specifications

Type

Normative, ANSI Standard

Releases

• ANSI/HL7 EHR CRFP, R1-2009

Summary

The healthcare industry will reap tremendous benefits by adopting a common standard for electronic health record systems (EHR-S). The HL7 EHR-S Functional Model 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 healthcare settings. To date, HL7 has developed or is developing profiles for areas such as child health, emergency care, long term care, behavioral health and vital statistic reporting.

Description

In February 2007, the HL7 Electronic Record Health System Functional Model (EHR-S FM) became the healthcare industry’s first ANSI-approved standard that specifies the functional requirements for an electronic health record system (EHR-S). The standard has received broad industry input from more than a thousand clinicians, as well as from EHR vendors, payers, researchers, and others across the industry. The EHR-S FM outlines important features and functions that should be contained in an EHR system. The standard’s Functional Model contains approximately 1,000 conformance criteria across 130 functions, including medication history, problem lists, orders, clinical decision support, and those supporting privacy and security. The functions are described from a user perspective and enable consistent expression of EHR system functionality, while the conformance criteria serves as a reference for purchasers of EHR systems and vendors developing EHR software.

To date, a number of profiles have been developed.

• The Electronic Health Record (EHR)/Clinical Research (CR) Profile provides high-level requirements necessary for using electronic health record data for regulated clinical research, as well as a roadmap for integrating the data collection for both patient care and clinical research (“collect once, re-purpose many times.”). This functional profile encourages EHR vendors to incorporate functions into their products so that electronic health records can be a direct data source for clinical studies as appropriate. This profile was approved as an ANSI standard in January 2009.

For those thinking about creating a profile, the How to Guide for Creating Functional Profiles is available on the Work Group’s Functional Profile webpage (www.Hl7.org/ehr). In addition, the HL7 EHR Work Group is available to provide further guidance.

Any functional profile that conforms to the EHR System Functional Model standard can be registered with HL7. This registration involves self-attestation of conformance by those submitting the functional profile for registration via a questionnaire that is completed at submission time. Registration can facilitate the adoption of the profile by making it publicly available for use. All registered profiles are available to the public through a searchable registry at: http://www.nist.gov/profileregistry.

Resources

• For more information on the EHR-S FM and the HL7 Electronic Health Records Work Group, please visit: www.HL7.org/ehr.

Work Groups

• EHR WG
• RCRIM WG

Education

• See more at http://www.hl7.org/implement/training.cfm

Certification Available

• none

Presentations

From HIMSS 2009

• EHR-S FM and Standard