Clinical Decision Support
Below is a list of the current products this work group is stewarding.
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| Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| HL7 Cross Paradigm Storyboard – Payer Perspective, Value Based Care | This HL7 Cross-Paradigm Storyboard Artifact establishes a realistic life situation that demonstrates healthcare information interoperability issues that are important from a Payers’ perspective and the shift toward value-based care. ... |
Informative |
| HL7 Cross-Paradigm Specification: CDS Hooks, Release 1, STU2 | The CDS Hooks specification describes the RESTful APIs and interactions to integrate Clinical Decision Support (CDS) between CDS Clients (typically Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs) or other health information systems) and CDS Services. ... |
STU |
| HL7 Cross-Paradigm Specification: Clinical Quality Language (CQL), Release 1 | Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a high-level, domain-specific language focused on clinical quality improvement and targeted at measure and decision support artifact authors and implementers. In addition, this specification describes a machine-readable canoni... |
Normative |
| HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Harmonization of Health Quality Artifact Reasoning and Expression Logic | This document seeks to define the common concepts and semantics involved in modeling reasoning within the various aspects of the health quality domain, with the goal of providing a common conceptual foundation that other specifications can use whenever the need to expres... |
Informative |
| HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Canonical Resource Management Infrastructure (CRMI), Edition 2 | The Canonical Resource Management Infrastructure implementation guide defines profiles, operations, capability statements and guidance to facilitate the content management lifecycle for authoring, publishing, distribution, and implementation of FHIR knowledge artifacts such a... |
STU |
| HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Common CQL Artifacts for FHIR, Edition 2 - US Realm | This implementation guide contains architectural guidance and re-usable libraries that facilitate the use of Clinical Quality Language (CQL) with FHIR in the US Realm, with an initial use case of Prior Authorization Support Questionnaires as described in the DaVinci Docume... |
STU |
| HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Data Exchange Profiles for 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Edition 1 - US Realm | This specification defines exchange expectations for systems that implement the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain, both in terms of the data required to evaluate whether recommendations are applicable, as well as the data required to repres... |
STU |
| HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Documentation Templates and Rules (DTR), Edition 2.2 - US Realm | The Documentation Templates and Rules (DTR) Implementation Guide (IG) specifies how payer rules can be executed in a provider context to ensure that documentation requirements are met.
See the specification at http://hl7.org/fhir/us/davinci-dtr/2.2.0 ... |
STU |
| HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Potential Drug-Drug Interaction (PDDI) Clinical Decision Support (CDS), Edition 1 | This implementation guide is targeted at drug-drug interaction CDS implementers who seek to increase the specificity and clinical relevance of potential drug-drug interaction (PDDI) alerts presented through the electronic health record. |
STU |
| HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Using CQL, Edition 2 | The intent of this implementation guide is to support the use of CQL with FHIR in general. It is a universal realm specification and is intended to be broadly applicable to any use case that involves libraries or expressions of CQL evaluating against FHIR resources, including:
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STU |
| HL7 FHIR® R4 Implementation Guide: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Edition 2 | The FHIR Clinical Guidelines Implementation Guide (CPG IG) provides a means of creating a computable representation of a narrative clinical guideline that is faithful to guideline intent and supports the derivation of downstream capabilities such as cognitive and decision support, quality measur... |
STU |
| HL7 FHIR® R4 Implementation Guide: QI-Core, Edition 7.0.2 - US Realm | The QI Core Implementation Guide defines a set of FHIR profiles with extensions and bindings needed to create interoperable, quality-focused applications. The profiles in this implementation guide derive from and extend the US Core profiles to provide a common foundation for bu... |
STU |
| HL7 Implementation Guide: Decision Support Service, Release 1 | A Decision Support Service takes in patient data as the input and provides back patient-specific assessments and recommendations. A Decision Support Service (DSS) facilitates the implementation of clinical decision support capabilities in a scalable manner... |
DSTU |
| HL7 Implementation Guide: Service-Oriented Architecture Implementations of the Context-aware Knowledge Retrieval (Infobutton) Domain, Release 1 | This implementation guide provides a service-oriented (SOA) specification for the Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval (Infobutton) Standard. The specification is based on the RESTful (Representational State Transfer) software architecture style and uses the IETF ATOM content syndic... |
Normative |
| HL7 Specification: Clinical Quality Language (CQL), Release 2 | Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a high-level, domain-specific language focused on clinical quality improvement and targeted at measure and decision support artifact authors and implementers. In addition, this specification describes a machine-readable canoni... |
STU |
| HL7 Standard: Clinical Decision Support Knowledge Artifact Specification, Release 1.3 | The Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Knowledge Artifact Specification provides guidance on how to specify and implement shareable CDS knowledge artifacts using XML. The scope of the specification includes event-condition-action rules, order sets, and documentation templa... |
DSTU |
| HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Virtual Medical Record for Clinical Decision Support (vMR-CDS), Release 1 | A Virtual Medical Record (vMR) is a data model for representing the data that are analyzed and/or produced by clinical decision support (CDS) engines. The goal of this project is to define HL7 vMR data models capable of supporting scalable, interoperable CDS. This specification consists of a tech... |
Informative |
| HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval Application (Infobutton), Release 4 | The Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval (Infobutton) specifications provide a standard mechanism for clinical information systems to request context-specific clinical knowledge form online resources. This has become a widely adopted approach to help clinicians and patients answer their ... |
Normative |
| HL7 Version 3 Specification: Ordering Service Interface – Release 1 | The Ordering Service is intended to complement existing SOA services and the SAIF Behavioral Framework (BF) for HL7. It will provide a Service Functional Model (SFM) for ordering pharmacy, laboratory, radiology, consult and nutritional services individually or part of an order ... |
DSTU, Informative |
| HL7 Version 3 Standard: Context Aware Knowledge Retrieval Application (“Infobutton”), Knowledge Request, Release 2 | The Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval (Infobutton) specifications provide a standard mechanism for clinical information systems to request context-specific clinical knowledge form online resources. This has become a widely adopted approach to help clinicians and patients answer their ... |
Normative |
| HL7 Version 3 Standard: GELLO, A Common Expression Language, Release 2 | GELLO, part of the HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, is a standard query and expression language that provides a suitable framework for manipulation of clinical data for decision support in healthcare. The GELLO language can be used to build queries to extract and manipulate data from medica... |
Normative |
| HL7 Version 3 Standard: Order Set Publication, Release 1 | Order sets can organize and structure complex health care plans into useful units of work for clinicians. An order within an order set can request any clinical activity including referrals (requests for encounters), acts, supplies, procedures and observations among others... |
DSTU |
| HL7 Version 3 Standard: Representation of the Health Quality Measure Format (eMeasure) Release 1 | The Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) is a standard for representing a health quality measure as an electronic document. A quality measure is a quantitative tool that provides an indication of an individual or organization’s performance in relation to a specif... |
Normative |
| HL7 Version 3 Standard: Virtual Medical Record for Clinical Decision Support (vMR-CDS) XML Specification, Release 1 | The vMR is a data model for representing the data that are analyzed and/or produced by CDS engines. The term vMR has historically been used in the CDS community to refer to a simplified representation of the clinical record that is suitable and safe for a CDS knowledge engineer to direct... |
DSTU, Informative |
| HL7 Version V3 GELLO Implementation Guide: Clinical Decision Support, Model Definition Language for GELLO, Release 1 | A Model Definition Language for Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is a grammar for representing clinical information inputs and outputs that can be used by CDS engines and local clinical information systems. This model definition language is needed to enable the design and de... |
Normative |