Section 1h: Cross-paradigm/Domain Analysis Models
Section 2: Clinical and Administrative Domains
HL7 Version 3 Standard: Event Publish & Subscribe Service Interface, Release 1 – US Realm
DESCRIPTION
The Event Publish and Subscribe Service complements existing HL7 SOA services by providing a Service Functional Model (SFM) for services, components and systems to subscribe to clinical events of interest and receive notice when new data is available.
The service supports two common forms of filtering: topic-based and content-based.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
HL7 Version 3 Standard: Event Publish & Subscribe Service Interface, Release 1 – US Realm may also go by the following names or acronyms:
"HL7 Version 3 Specification: Event Publish & Subscribe Service Interface, R1", Healthcare Event Pub Sub, Event Subscription and Notification Service
TARGETS
- Clinical and Public Health Laboratories
- Immunization Registries
- Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)
- Pharmaceutical Vendors
- EHR, PHR Vendors
- Equipment Vendors
- Health Care IT Vendors
- Clinical Decision Support Systems Vendors
- Lab Vendors
- HIS Vendors
- Local and State Departments of Health
- Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health)
BENEFITS
A generalized Event Publish & Subscribe Service is needed as a foundation for a wide variety of applications, including new result feeds, content syndication, rich presence and clinical workflow systems. In general, Pub/Sub offers:
(a) event subscribers to be easily added, managed, and notified
(b) Consumer empowerment, allowing stakeholders to manage their own data requirement
(c) Efficient resource utilization via forward messages only to interested parties
(d) Enhanced performance and scalability
IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES
- Cognitive Computer Systems
- Veteran's Administration
- Tesltra Health
DEVELOPMENT BACKGROUND
This SFM was developed as part of the Health Services Specification Project (HSSP). As part of that process an implementation of the SFM was developed as an OMG specification and will be available on the OMG Healthcare web site.
RELATED DOCUMENTS
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BALLOT TYPES
- DSTU
- Normative
STATUS DATE
2019-08-23RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUP
PRODUCT TYPES
- Domain Analysis Model
- Services
STAKEHOLDERS
- Clinical and Public Health Laboratories
- Clinical Decision Support Systems Vendors
- EHR, PHR Vendors
- Equipment Vendors
- Health Care IT Vendors
- Healthcare Institutions
- HIS Vendors
- Immunization Registries
- Lab Vendors
- Local and State Departments of Health
- Pharmaceutical Vendors
- Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)
FAMILY
- Cross-paradigm
CURRENT STATE
- Active
REALM
- US Realm