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Section 1c: FHIR®
Section 3: Implementation Guides

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Public Health Profiles Library, Edition 2 - US Realm

DESCRIPTION

The US Public Health Profiles Library (USPHPL) is a collection of reusable architecture and content profiles representing common public health concepts and patterns. It is intended as a complement to the US Core Implementation Guide (US Core) to ease implementation burden of healthcare organizations, electronic health record companies, public health agencies, and others involved in the US public health endeavor.

 

See the specification at  http://hl7.org/fhir/us/ph-library/STU2

 

 

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Public Health Profiles Library, Edition 2 - US Realm may also go by the following names or acronyms:

"HL7 FHIR® IG: Public Health Profiles Library, R1 - US Realm",USPHPL, USPH Profiles

BENEFITS

  • Encourages consistency around how data is exchanged between healthcare systems in public health
  • Provides a starting point and framework for inclusion in multiple implementation guides focused on the exchange of public health information to support interoperability among public health systems and reduce provider and implementer burden

IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES

  • eCR
  • Cancer Pathology Data Sharing
  • Health Care Surveys 

DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND

After evaluation and harmonization analysis of large multi-condition and multi-use case public health projects including Electronic Case Reporting (eCR), it was determined that there are many common elements shared across implementation guides (IGs).

To avoid defining the same profiles multiple times, we have created the US Public Health Profiles Library for use by Public Health and other FHIR standards development efforts to define appropriate FHIR profiles, value sets, etc., once, and allow them to be referenced by any implementation guide. This USPHPL provides a starting point and framework for inclusion in multiple implementation guides focused on the exchange of Public Health information to support interoperability among public health systems and reduce provider and implementer burden.

RELATED DOCUMENTS

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Public Health Profiles Library, Edition 2 - US Realm

STU DOCUMENTS

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Public Health Profiles Library, Edition 2 - US Realm See the standard at http://hl7.org/fhir/us/ph-library/STU2. (Submit Feedback on STU)
HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: US Public Health Profiles Library, Release 1- US Realm See the standard at http://hl7.org/fhir/us/ph-library/STU1. Expiration Jul 2025

TOPIC

  • Public Health

BALLOT TYPE

  • STU

STATUS DATE

2026-02-17

RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP

Public Health

PRODUCT TYPE

  • Implementation Guide

STAKEHOLDERS

  • EHR, PHR Vendors
  • Health Care IT Vendors
  • Healthcare Institutions
  • Local and State Departments of Health
  • Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)

FAMILY

  • FHIR

CURRENT STATE

  • Active

REALM

  • US Realm