Standards development organization Health Level Seven has published the first Electronic Health Record System Functional Requirements Standard for Clinical Research.
The standard, which has received American National Standards Institute approval, defines high-level requirements for using EHR data for regulated clinical research, according to Ann Arbor, Mich.-based HL7. It provides a roadmap for integrating information to support patient care and clinical research processes.
"This profile is an excellent demonstration of how important functional requirements for secondary data use, such as clinical research, can be integrated into the patient care work flow and documented in EHR systems," says Donald Mon, vice president of practice leadership at the American Health Information Management Association and co-chair of the HL7 EHR Work Group.
The profile also is a resource for the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology as it defines new clinical research certification criteria for EHRs, according to HL7. The profile also will be complemented by the EHR-Clinical Research interoperability specification being developed by the Health Information Technology Standards Panel.
More information is available at hl7.org and ehrcr.org.
--Joseph Goedert
NOV 5, 2009 4:02pm ET
Standard Supports EHRs, Clinical Research
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