HL7 Guidance: Field Guide to Sharable Clinical Pathways, Edition 3

DESCRIPTION

The Field Guide to Shareable Clinical Pathways focuses on a model-based approach to define the care workflow and decision-making at the level of granularity that reveals information needs. The approach of this Field Guide is to apply standard techniques for business process modeling and decision modeling, which have been proven effective in other industries, adapted to health industry needs.

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

HL7 Guidance: Field Guide to Sharable Clinical Pathways, Edition 3 may also go by the following names or acronyms:

BENEFITS

• Exemplifies uses in 3 industry standard modeling notations, broadly used in business but with limited use in health.
• Documents best practices to enable sharable, computable workflow.

DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND

Current refresh of prior industry work. Edition 1 and 2 were published by the Object Management Group. Edition 3 is the first HL7 publication on this topic.

Health domain uniqueness prompted the creation of this Guide. Health information technology systems are defined in terms of both human tasks (including manual and cognitive tasks) and computational tasks. Workflows and information flows run in parallel and intersect at multiple points in multiple ways.

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HL7 Guidance: Field Guide to Sharable Clinical Pathways, Edition 3

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TOPICS

• Clinical Quality
• Decision Support
• Patient Administration
• Patient Care

BALLOT TYPES

• Informative

STATUS DATE

2026-08-27

RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP

PRODUCT TYPES

• Services
• White Paper

FAMILY

• Cross-paradigm

CURRENT STATE

• Active

REALM

• Universal