HL7 Version 3 Domain Information Model; Emergency Medical Services, Release 1

DESCRIPTION

The standard is a Domain Information Model (DIM) specific to emergency medical service in the pre-hospital setting.  The DIM is balloted as an informative document to be used as a reference in subsequent projects to develop or evaluate ANSI approved specifications and standards within the pre-hospital emergency medical services domain.

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

HL7 Version 3 Domain Information Model; Emergency Medical Services, Release 1 may also go by the following names or acronyms:

TARGETS

• Quality Reporting Agencies
• Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)
• EHR, PHR Vendors
• Health Care IT Vendors
• Clinical Decision Support Systems Vendors
• Emergency Services Providers
• Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health)

BENEFITS

• Facilitates activities intended to transform the uniform pre-hospital emergency medical services dataset as defined by the United States Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) into an American National Standard

IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES

• The National Emergency Medical Services Information System Technical Assistance Center sponsored the development of this model, which is designed to support development of implementable specifications for communication of pre-hospital service information

DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND

This constrained model was developed based on the EMS Domain Information Model prior to the decision to develop CDA specifications. The EMS specification now in DSTU, and future anticipated specifications, will conform to the CDA constrained model. We hesitated to publish this model due to the divergence between the design it proposes for representing the DAM requirements in a RIM-based model and the CDA-based implementation guide currently in process, which is founded on the clinical statement, as it could cause confusion. We decided to publish anyway, both as a record of the analysis that was done and as a candidate foundation for potential future development, even though such development would more likely follow the patterns established by the CDA specifications.

RELATED DOCUMENTS

HL7 Version 3 Domain Information Model; Emergency Medical Services, Release 1

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TOPICS

• Decision Support
• Patient Care

BALLOT TYPE

• Informative

STATUS DATE

2013-05-16

RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP

PRODUCT TYPE

• Standard Reference Materials

STAKEHOLDERS

• Clinical Decision Support Systems Vendors
• EHR, PHR Vendors
• Emergency Services Providers
• Health Care IT Vendors
• Healthcare Institutions
• Quality Reporting Agencies
• Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)

FAMILY

• V3

CURRENT STATE

• Stable

REALM

• Universal