Product PA

Product Brief - V3 Domain: Patient Administration

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Product Name

Patient Administration (UVPA/ PRPA)
also known as ADT (Admit, Discharge, and Transfer)
also known as Encounter Management
also known as Administrative Registries

Topics

Encounter Management

• Ambulatory Encounter
• Inpatient Encounter
• Emergency Encounter
• Home Health Encounter
• Attending Practitioner
• Encounter Location
• Encounter Organization
• Encounter Queries
• Short Stay Encounter

Registries

Future plans include publishing with Provider and Organization Registries in Personnel Management

• Person, (Person Registries)
• Identity Document
• Patient, (Patient Registries)
• Service Delivery Location (Registries)

Standard Category

• Health Information Exchange Standards

Integration Paradigm

• Messaging

Type

DSTU

Releases

• DSTU: HL7 PA, R2-2007 - HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Administration, Release 2- R2 2007
• HL7 V3 PA, R2 - HL7 Version 3 Standard: Patient Administration, Release 2; Domain Level DSTU Ballot 2 - September 2009

Summary

Patient Administration, also known as ADT (Admit, Discharge and Transfer), supports many of the core administrative functions in healthcare such as person and patient registration and encounter management. Generally, information is entered into a Patient or Person Registry or into a Patient Administration system and passed to other systems (e.g., other registries, clinical, ancillary and financial systems).

Business Case (Intended Use, Customers)

• Provider: Health Care Institutions
• Payers

Implementations/ Case Studies (Actual Users)

• Helse Vest, Norway;
• CSC Scandihealth, Denmark (encounter management)

Resources

Work Groups

Patient Administration

Education

• Tutorial included with V3 Overview
• See more at http://hl7new.amg-hq.net/implement/training.cfm

Certification Available

• none

Links to current projects in development

• Project Insight ID # 489, Patient Encounters