PHD FHIR IG Proposal

Continua Personal Health Device Implementation Guide

Owning work group name

Health Care Devices

Committee Approval Date:

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Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups

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IG Purpose

This guide provides a standardized way of representing data from IEEE 11073 Personal Health Devices in FHIR.

Proposed IG realm and code

Universal Realm uv

Short Description

The IG provides a mapping of IEEE 11073 20601 Personal Health Device data to FHIR

Long Description

This guide uses the IEEE 11073 20601 object model to represent device and measurement data from Personal Health Devices. This model is then mapped to FHIR resources based upon the model element types and not their values making the mapping both generic and extensible. An implementation written today will be able to map any future device type that follows the 20601 standard. Personal Health Devices are seen as an important constituent of remote patient monitoring and the design of this guide is strongly influenced by remote patient monitoring concerns and needs.

Expected implementations

The most common set of implementations is expected to be personal health gateways sitting in a patient's home that communicates with the personal health devices, decodes the data, and encodes them into the FHIR resources specified by this guide. Implementation of such gateways have been done on mobile and set-top box platforms, although for the most part based upon earlier versions of FHIR which were not completely sufficient for the needed mapping tasks.

When IG Proposal Is Complete

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