Validated Healthcare Directory Implementation Guide

Project Name
Validated Healthcare Directory Implementation Guide

Project Number
1345

Project Type

Product Family

Products
FHIR Profile

Project Intent
Revise Current Standard

Ballot Type

Project Need

Implementers of large scale shared healthcare directories (such as country/jurisdiction scale directory services) need the ability to establish validated provider information and make it available to local workflow environments for utilization in a number of clinical and administrative Healthcare activities. Any exchange must be able to identify the validation status, process, date and source of each significant element so the downstream entity can verify that the validation process meets their local standard.

- This shared directory information should be of high quality to address existing production issues causing significant inefficiencies and redundancies. Specific examples are: the Social Security Administration needs to identify specific providers to satisfy their claim documentation requirements

- emergency response identification of provider’s electronic endpoints.

This standard will go hand in hand with requirements that the source systems ensure the content is current, and will attest to the accuracy of the data.

Objectives and Deliverables
Implementation Guide for Ballot as STU1 - Target: September 2017 Ballot Reconciliation Completed - Target: January 2018 Implementation Guide Published - Target: February 2018 Implementation Guide STU2 - Target: February 2020 Implementation Guide Normative - Target: February 2022

Project Document Repository
http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=FHIR_Validated_Healthcare_Directory

Collaboration Efforts
ONC-FHA Healthcare Task Force

Dependencies
FHIR STU3

Stakeholders

Implementers
1) CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services – central server side) 2) MIHIN (Michigan Health Information Network) 3) The Sequoia Project

External Drivers
ONC (US Office of national Coordinator) and FHA (US Federal Healthcare Architecture) have determined via prior directory efforts and feedback from a workshop held in April 2016 that one of the primary issues affecting the creation and deployment of healthcare directories is the need for validated provider information and that this could be best accomplished at the national level with a resource created, operated and made available by a federal healthcare agency. The 21 Century Cures Act specifically requires HHS to make provider information available for use by appropriate entities. Other healthcare services directories have been implemented before (such as in Australia) and will be used to inform the project.

Common Names
FHIR Healthcare Directory Information Exchange; Healthcare Directory; HcDir

Lineage
N/A

External Vocabularies
Yes

Backwards Compatibility
N/A

Joint Copyright
No