Pain Assessment

Project Name
Pain Assessment

Project Number
1585

Project Type

Product Family

Products

Project Intent
Create New Standard

Ballot Type

Project Need

Pain is the most common symptom documented in healthcare. Many questions about the pain (qualifying observations) are also recorded such as pain quality, exacerbating factors, body location etc. This data needs to be standardly structured and encoded in order to gain knowledge about pain.

Objectives and Deliverables
1. Identify needed data elements and value sets used to document pain (completed by Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science Initiative) 2. Curate the needed terminology content with LOINC and SNOMED CT (in progress - target 8/30/2019). 2. Develop the Clinical Element Models (Target 9/31/2019) 3. Develop the FHIR profiles (Target 10/31/2019) 4. QA FHIR profiles within CIMI (Target 11/31/2019) 4. Collaborate with implementers to assit with FHIR enable their applications. 6. Pilot test 7. Ballot in Jan 2020

Project Document Repository
https://github.com/HL7/fhir-pain-assessment-ig

Collaboration Efforts
Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science Initiative

Dependencies
TBD

Stakeholders
Quality Reporting Agencies, Standards Development Organizations (SDOs),Emergency Services; Local and State Departments of Health; Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health),EHR, PHR

Implementers
New York Presbyterian - Sarah Collins-Rossetti, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Epic - Emily Barey, Chief Nursing Officer University of Utah PenRad

External Drivers

Common Names
Pain Assessment

Lineage

External Vocabularies
Yes

Backwards Compatibility

Joint Copyright
No