Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems Update and Revision (updated PSS on Confluence)

Development and publication of specifications for ED patient records systems, Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems (DEEDS) (http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/deedspage.htm) in 1997, showed that relevant data standards can be consolidated and distributed in a single document. The DEEDS specifications have been widely used for a variety of purposes, including healthcare claims attachment specifications mandated by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); emergency care terminology additions to the Logical Observations, Identifiers, Names, and Codes (LOINC) clinical vocabulary; and data definitions and terminology for public health surveillance initiatives, such the BioSense program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the emergency department component of the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) and the Frontlines in Medicine Project.

Version 1.0 of the HL7 DEEDS specification was balloted in 2012. The DEEDS data specification provides the data model for the HL7 Emergency Care Domain Analysis Model. This update and revision will harmonize DEEDS with current HL7 specifications and data sets. Based on feed back from the CDC and others additional data elements may be added and some deprecated based on experience and changes to data standards.