1.0 Introduction

1.1 Overview

This Component supports the communication of patient level quality data for quality measurement in a document sharing environment. Patient encounter data are compiled from both the local systems and from longitudinal data available through a Health Information Exchange (HIE) prior to communicating the retrieved data described in this construct for analysis.

1.2 Copyright Permissions

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

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Certain materials contained in this Interoperability Specification are reproduced from HL7 Version 2.5 and 3.0 with permission of Health Level Seven, Inc. No part of the material may be copied or reproduced in any form outside of the Interoperability Specification documents, including an electronic retrieval system, or made available on the Internet without the prior written permission of Health Level Seven, Inc. Copies of standards included in this Interoperability Specification may be purchased from the Health Level Seven, Inc. Material drawn from these standards is credited where used.

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This material includes SNOMED Clinical Terms(r) (SNOMED CT(r)) which is used by permission of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO). All rights reserved. SNOMED CT(r) was originally created by The College of American Pathologists.

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1.3 Reference Documents

This section provides a list of key reference documents and background material. If you are already familiar with this information, proceed to Section 2.0.

A list of key reference document Standards and background material is provided in the table below. These documents can be retrieved from the www.hitsp.org Web Site.

Table 1-1 Reference Documents

Reference Document

Document Description

HITSP Acronyms List

Lists and defines the acronyms used in this document

HITSP Glossary

Provides definitions for relevant terms used by HITSP documents

TN900 - Security and Privacy

TN900 is a reference document that provides the overall context for use of the HITSP Security and Privacy constructs

1.4 Conformance

This section describes the conformance criteria, which are objective statements of requirements that can be used to determine if a specific behavior, function, interface, or code set has been implemented correctly.

1.4.1 Conformance Criteria

In order to claim conformance to this construct specification, an implementation must satisfy all the requirements and mandatory statements listed in this specification, the associated HITSP Interoperability Specification, its associated construct specifications, as well as conformance criteria from the selected base and composite standards. A conformant system must also implement all of the required interfaces within the scope, subset or implementation option that is selected from the associated Interoperability Specification.

Claims of conformance may only be made for the overall HITSP Interoperability Specification or Capability with which this construct is associated.

1.4.2 Conformance Scoping, Subsetting and Options

A HITSP Interoperability Specification must be implemented in its entirety for an implementation to claim conformance to the specification. HITSP may define the permissibility for interface scoping, subsetting or implementation options by which the specification may be implemented in a limited manner. Such scoping, subsetting and options may extend to associated constructs, such as this construct. This construct must implement all requirements within the selected scope, subset or options as defined in the associated Interoperability Specification to claim conformance.