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Electronic Health Record-System Functional Model, Release 2.0

Welcome!

Welcome to HL7’s Electronic Health Record Work Group’s (EHR WG) 2011 Release 2.0, Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S) Functional Model standard.

Ballot Package Cycle and Naming

This ballot package is labeled "December 2011"; this is the Publication Date; not the ballot cycle date.
This ballot package is a Joint Initiative Council (JIC) ballot item and the package will be submitted to ISO CS to initiate the ISO DIS ballot (to open in early Feb 2012). The package will also be submitted to CEN TC251, IHTSDO and CDISC for their ballot processes.
The package will go to HL7 ballot in April with all (five) ballots closing simultaneously no later than 7 May 2012.

What is the background of the current release?

The HL7 EHR-S Functional Model, which was approved in July, 2004 as a Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU), has undergone a series of enhancements in the past two years, as it became a fully approved American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard. A broad constituency – including intensive outreach to industry, care providers, and healthcare organizations – has worked to refine the initial EHR-S Functional Model. This version reflects the changes made as part of the reconciliation process on a committee level ballot, and two subsequent membership level ballots. The HL7 EHR-S Functional Model was promoted to an ISO International Standard after passing HL7 consensus ballot as a normative standard and achieving ANSI approval. This promotion follows the process outlined in the ISO/HL7 Pilot Agreement. Learning important lessons from the ballot process, a Functional Model with a clearer, more simplified list of functions, has been created. The HL7 EHR System Functional Model provides a reference list of functions that may be present in an Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S). The function list is described from a user perspective with the intent to enable consistent expression of system functionality. This EHR-S Model, through the creation of Functional Profiles, enables a standardized description and common understanding of functions sought or available in a given setting (e.g. intensive care, cardiology, office practice in one country or primary care in another country).

Package Contents

• EHR-S Functional Model: Readme
• EHR-S Functional Model Chapter 1: Overview
• EHR-S Functional Model Chapter 2: Conformance
• EHR-S Functional Model Chapter 3: Functions List PDF
• EHR-S Functional Model Chapter 3: Functions List EXCEL
• EHR-S Functional Model Chapter 3: Functions List HTML
• EHR-S Functional Model Chapter 3: Functions List XML
• EHR-S Functional Model Chapter 4: Glossary
• EHR-S Functional Model Chapter 5: How-to-Guide for Developing Functional Profiles
• Word Versions of Chapters 0, 1, 2, 4 & 5
• Full Package available from HL7.org EHR WG Documents page

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Other Offerings and Requests from the EHR Work Group:

• The Personal Health Record-System Functional Model is the consumer-oriented version of the EHR-System Functional Model and is freely available from the EHR WG’s web page at http://www.HL7.org/ehr
• Registered Functional Profiles of the EHR-System Functional Model and the Personal Health Record-System Functional Model are freely available at: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_section.cfm?section=4
• Education on the EHR-S FM, PHR-S FM, and Conformance Criteria are available through tutorials offered at HL7 Working Group Meetings and HL7 Educational Summits.
• HL7 Ambassadors are available to offer HL7 Ambassador Briefing presentations on a variety of topics, including the EHR-S FM and PHR-S FM. Please contact the HL7 Marketing Council at: jill.kaufman@gmail.com
• If you are developing (or intend to develop) Functional Profiles or other work-products related to the EHR-S FM or PHR-S FM, please inform the EHR WG co-chairs so that they may have the opportunity to support and leverage your work.