Exchanging care records using HL7 V3 care provision messages.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This paper describes Health Level 7 (HL7) V.3 Care Transfer, Care Record Query, and Care Record messages. This is the core of the Care Provision Domain in the HL7 standard which became normative at the end of 2012 and is an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-approved HL7 standard.

Background and significance

Using a message is somewhat different from the approach offered in the current HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). The overall advantage is human-to-human communication and system-to-system processing of structured data through electronic messages, supporting continuity of care and interactive structured data exchange through querying.

Materials and methods

The Care Provision Domain Model in HL7 was developed based on use cases from sever

SUBMITTER: Goossen W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4173169 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature