HL7 Care Coordination Service (CCS)

This Care Coordination Service effort is above all a health care socio-technical standard for enabling live collaboration among care team participants.

There is no standard to support live social collaboration where all participants are updated with changes when they happen. Current standards support exchanging entire documents or specific messages types. Current standards also require polling for synchronizing changes. This standard will support establishing and managing a shared context between care team members as they collaborate on patient care. The standard will support real time contribution by individuals to a shared clinical context.

The standard will specifically address the use cases documented as part of the HL7 PC WG's Care Plan Initiative project.

The web 2.0 social platforms have achieved this for some years by now; but there is currently no standard for health care which is backed by semantically interoperable models and messages.