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Orders and Observations

Laboratory (Archived) Anatomic Pathology (Archived) Clinical Statement (Archived)

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Name Description Type
HL7 Cross Paradigm Implementation Guide: UDI Pattern, Release 2

The Unique Device Identifier (UDI) Pattern provides the guidelines for exchanging UDI information associated with medical devices, initially implantable devices in patients.  This document will not give implementation guidance for specific use cases and worfklows, but will s...

Normative
HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Specimen, Release 2

This specification is the second release of a Domain Analysis Model for Specimen, documenting the conceptual information requirements for use cases provided by Clinical Genomics, Anatomic Pathology and Public Health Laboratories, the harmonization with the Biomedical Research Integr...

Informative
HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Nutrition Care, Release 3

Standards for the transmission and exchange of nutrition orders including information on oral diets, enteral nutrition and oral nutritional supplements, along with food allergies/intolerances and food preference information are required to safely provide inpati...

STU
HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Unique Device Identification (UDI), Release 1

The DAM contains the requirements for reporting and utilizing Unique Device Identifiers (UDIs) for the identification of implantable medical devices. Implantable devices are subject to UDI labeling regulations, and because implantables pose heightened safety risk, report...

Informative
HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Cancer Pathology Data Sharing, Edition 2 - US Realm

This project aims to leverage the FHIR standard to support the electronic exchange of cancer pathology information between hospital or facility-based Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and Cancer Registries by developing a single FHIR Implem...

STU
HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM), Edition 1

The Continuous Glucose Monitoring Implementation Guide provides a standardized approach for sharing Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) data between actors. This Implementation Guide (IG) focuses on enabling the exchange of CGM data, including high-level reports and raw glucose observ...

STU
HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Structured Data Capture/electronic Cancer Protocols (sdc/ecc) on FHIR, Release 1- US Realm

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Structured Data Capture (SDC) on FHIR uses a form-driven workflow to capture and transmit encoded data by creating FHIR Observations. This IG is mostly used for converting College of American Pathologist electronic Cancer Protocols (eCPs)...

STU
HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Structured Data Capture/electronic Cancer Protocols on FHIR, Edition 1- US Realm

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Structured Data Capture (SDC) on FHIR uses a form-driven workflow to capture and transmit encoded data by creating FHIR Observations. This IG is mostly used for converting College of American Pathologist electronic Cancer Protocols (eCPs)...

STU
HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Order Catalog, Release 1

An order catalog is a collection of definitional resources describing healthcare items that can be ordered, selected, or used by practitioners to support the course of healthcare delivery. These healthcare items may represent services, products, devices, or knowledge artifa...

STU
HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Vital Signs, Release 1- US Realm

Vital signs are collected on nearly every patient encounter. Oftentimes, the clinician needs to know the patient position, device, body location or method the measures were taken.

Blood pressure as a component of vital signs also plays a key role in national efforts to contr...

STU
HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.5.1

Additional information on the V2 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data Exchange Profile at http://www.hl7.org/permalink/?SOGIGuidance.

Normative
HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.8.2

HL7 Version 2.8.2 represents HL7’s latest development efforts to the line of Version 2 Standards that date back to 1989. HL7 Version 2.8.2 is deemed necessary to support: 

  • The US Federal Government's Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed Labor...
Normative
HL7 Version 2 Implementation Guide: Laboratory Value Set Companion Guide, Release 2 - US Realm

HL7 has developed multiple Implementation Guides (IGs) for the laboratory domain, supporting US Realm requirements.  These IGs cover a broad spectrum of interoperability; in order to harmonize vocabulary requirements across the IGs, HL7 Orders & Observations Work Group created a new ap...

DSTU, STU
HL7 Version 2 to FHIR Edition 1

The HL7 V2 to FHIR Implementation Guide supports the mapping of HL7 Version 2 messages segments, datatypes and vocabulary to HL7 FHIR Release 4.0 Bundles, Resources, Data Types and Coding Systems. It represents a cumulative mapping of the standard, not any HL7 v2 based implem...

STU
HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health, Release 1 (US Realm)

This product page contains the Release 1 Informative Standard of HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health.   If you are seeking the Release 2 Draft Standard for Trial Use of this guide, follow this link to its product page.<...

Informative
HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Laboratory Orders from EHR (LOI) Edition 5 - US Realm

The Laboratory Orders Interface Initiative focuses on identifying the requirements, specifications and standards, and on providing the implementation guidance for electronic ordering of laboratory tests in the US Realm. The scope of the Laboratory Orders Interface Use Case includes requir...

DSTU, STU
HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Laboratory Results Interface (LRI), Edition 5 - US Realm

This guide provides guidance on how to communicate laboratory results in general from a (reference) Laboratory’s LIS to a system interested in lab results, e.g., EHR, Public Health, other Laboratory. It covers general lab results, as well as specifications focused on micro-...

STU
HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: S&I Framework Laboratory Test Compendium Framework (eDOS), Release 2 - US Realm

The content of the Laboratory Test Compendium Framework is a Laboratory’s DOS. The content is owned by the sending laboratory for the purpose of being used by the compendium consumer to be able to order laboratory services and to understand the requirements and components of tho...

STU
HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Diet and Nutrition Orders, Release 2

Standards for the electronic transmission and exchange of nutrition orders including information on oral diets, enteral nutrition (tube feeding and infant formula) and oral nutritional supplements, along with food allergies, food intolerances and food preference information are requir...

Informative, Normative
HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Laboratory Orders, Release 1

This document provides the SAIF artifacts that are relevant for the conceptual modeling, comparable to the Domain Analysis Model according to old methodology. The specification provides the foundation to progress development of a Laboratory Order template capability within Composite Order, as wel...

DSTU
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: Blood, Tissue, Organ; Donation, Release 1

The HL7 Blood Bank v3 Standard – Universal Realm is a messaging specification intended to standardize the electronic transmission of information between system application components in a Blood Bank setting. While this is Universal Realm generally, there are no con...

DSTU
HL7 Version 3 Standard: Clinical Models for Allergies and Intolerances, Release 1

The Allergy and Intolerance Clinical Models unify a number of international models designed to deal with the documentation and interoperability of allergy and intolerance conditions.  The use cases and models were developed with several goals in mind.  The first goal was to provide the re...

DSTU