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.

This group produces normative standards by:

• Identifying requirements and providing specifications for exchanging:
  1. Demographic and administrative data used to describe patients, persons, service delivery locations and patient encounters [scheduled and/or actual], including healthcare providers, places, organizations, and their relationships in the context of healthcare encounters.
  2. Administrative data to describe resources, their availability, [for example, represented by schedules or by status], and regulatory topics such as licensing and credentialing information about individuals, animals, organizations and devices directly or indirectly involved in the delivery of healthcare services.

• Identifying requirements and providing specifications regarding the dynamic behaviors involved in requests and their fulfillment with respect to:
  1. Additions and modifications to registries such as patients, persons, service delivery locations, healthcare providers, places, and organizations
  2. Scheduling of appointments for services, encounters and associated resources. These processes include the functions of requesting, booking, notification, and modification pertaining to appointments and resources.
  3. Queries for information

• Defining the domain and process of scheduling. As a domain, Scheduling offers a generic set of messages and behavior to implement any number of Scheduling scenarios. As a process, Scheduling offers an abstract data model and a set of operations to any domain within HL7 that utilizes scheduling concepts.

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.

Conference Calls

• PA ConCalls

Submission / Proposals

• Proposals under review
  • Proposal: AdministrativeContactRoleType - added 20090723
  • Proposal: update Find Encounters Query - added 20090717
  • Proposal: add Find Appointments Query - added 20090215
  • Appointment_CMETs - added 20090204
  • Proposal: Person Registry, add AdministrativeObservation parameter - added 20090204
  • Proposal: Patient Registry, add Find Candidates query parameters - added 20090204
  • Helse Vest Patient Encounter issues - added 200812
  • New application registry topic: PRPM_-_AORTA_use_cases, workitem since the 200809 WGM.
• Proposals which have been reviewed (accepted or rejected)
  • Harmonization_Proposal:_Add_new_EXISTENCEPL_roleClass - added 20090710, submitted
  • PA Harmonization Proposal Encounter Types - added 20090715, submitted
  • Add Ward/Bed/Room to ServiceDeliveryLocationRoleType - added 20090711, postponed, value set needs an overhaul
  • Harmonization Proposal: New PersonalRelationshipRoleType codes - added 20090317, accepted april 2009
  • Harmonization Proposal: add EducationLevel codes - added 20090313, withdrawn april 2009
  • Add new RoleClass: Place of Existence, accepted during the 200905 WGM.
  • Harmonization Proposal: add InformRequestActType Concept Domain - accepted during the PA 20090225 conference call.
  • Patient Topic Add Patient Request, accepted during the 200809 Vancouver WGM.
  • Provider topic: Proposal: Add new Parameter to Provider Detail Query, accepted during the 200809 WGM.
• Completed Proposals
  • Real_Time_Location_Systems - passed DSTU July 2008