1.0 Introduction

1.1 Overview

The Healthcare Associated Infection Report Component specifies a standard for electronic submission of Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) reports to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). HITSP has adopted the HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: NHSN Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Reports, Release 1 for this construct.

1.2 Copyright Permissions

2009 ANSI. This material may be copied without permission from ANSI only if and to the extent that the text is not altered in any fashion and ANSIs copyright is clearly noted.

Certain materials contained in this Interoperability Specification are reproduced from Health Level Seven (HL7) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Release 2 and Health Level Seven (HL7) Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2: NHSN Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Reports, Release 1, 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.

1.3 Reference Documents

This section provides a list of key reference documents and background material.

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

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

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.

This construct offers four Content Subsets for which referencing HITSP Interoperability Specification(s) will define the conformance criteria:

Blood Stream Infection (BSI)

Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Surgical Site Infection (SSI)

Multi-Drug-Resistant Organism (MDRO)

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