Patient Administration

The Patient Administration Work Group supports the HL7 mission by defining the requirements and specifications to support the interoperability among clinical and non-clinical systems regarding patient encounters and administrative registries.

• Scope: HL7v2 chapters 3,10 and 15; HL7v3 Patient Administration, Personnel Management, Registries and Scheduling Domains.
• See PA Mission and Charter for a full description of the PA mission & charter, and scope.

Status and Plans

Patient Administration HL7 V3 PA, R2 passed ballot in September 2009

Plan to begin Normative ballot for Patient Encounters content in May 2011

Plan to begin DSTU ballot In September 2011 for Person, Identity Document, Patient and Service Delivery Location as part of Administrative Registries

Personnel Management ANSI/HL7 V3 PM, R1-2005 approved 10/28/2005

Plan to begin DSTU ballot in September 2011 for Provider and Organization as part of Administrative Registries

Registries R1 passed Normative ballot in January 2010

No enhancements planned

Scheduling ANSI/HL7 V3 SC, R1-2003 approved 12/17/2003

Plan to begin DSTU ballot for R2 in January 2012 and Normative ballot in January 2013

Active Projects

• PA 3-Year Plan
• Interdependent Registries Project Wiki
• Patient Encounter Project Wiki

Documents authored by the Committee

• Adminstrative Management Domain Analysis Model

Documents authored by others

• Registry - What is a Registry ?
• Master File/Registry Control Act Wrapper - Linking/merging of registrations
• Query Parameters - implementation and modelling aspects
• CSCR-053 Include A Encounter Universal CMET in CSP - Patient Care discussion related to the potential use of A_Encounter.
• Nictiz Care Provider Registry - three registries deliver combined functionality

PA Meeting Minutes

• PA Minutes All Years
• PA Minutes for 2011
• PA Minutes for 2010

PA Meeting Agendas

• 2012 January (Vancouver) Agenda
• 2011 Sept (San Diego) Agenda
• 2011 May (Orlando) Agenda
• 2011 January WGM (Sydney)
• 2010 October WGM (Cambridge)

Submission / Proposals

• Proposals under review
  • Patient Care Harmonization issue: Three_PC/PA_harmonization_issues
  • Harmonization Proposal: AdministrativeContactRoleType - added 20090723
  • Helse Vest Patient Encounter issues - added 200812
  • New application registry topic: PRPM_-_AORTA_use_cases, workitem since the 2008-09 WGM.
• Proposals which have been reviewed (accepted or rejected)
  • Proposal: Patient Registry, add Find Candidates query parameters - added 20090204, accepted by PA 2010-01 WGM
  • Scheduling topic: Proposal: add Find Appointments Query - added 20090215, accepted by 2010-01 WGM
  • Proposal: update Find Encounters Query - added 20090717, accepted by PA 2009-09 WGM
  • Person Topic: Proposal: Person Registry, add AdministrativeObservation parameter - added 20090204, revised and accepted by PA 2010-01 WGM
  • Harmonization_Proposal:_Add_new_EXISTENCEPL_roleClass - added 20090710, rejected 2009Aug harmonization
  • PA Harmonization Proposal Encounter Types - added 20090715, accepted w/mod 2009Aug harmonization
  • Add Ward/Bed/Room to ServiceDeliveryLocationRoleType - added 20090711, postponed, value set needs an overhaul
  • Harmonization Proposal: New PersonalRelationshipRoleType codes - added 20090317, accepted 2009Apr harmonization
  • Harmonization Proposal: add EducationLevel codes - added 20090313, withdrawn 2009Apr harmonization
  • Harmonization Proposal: add InformRequestActType Concept Domain - accepted by PA 20090225, accepted 2009Apr harmonization
  • Patient Topic: Add Patient Request, accepted by PA 2008-09 WGM
  • Provider topic: Proposal: Add new Parameter to Provider Detail Query, accepted by PA 2008-09 WGM
• Completed Proposals
  • Real_Time_Location_Systems - passed DSTU July 2008; passed Normative January 2010
  • Appointment_CMETs - added 20090204, passed DSTU in 2010JAN ballot