7.0 Change History

The following sections provide the history of changes made to this document.

7.1 May 11, 2007

This document is now Released for Implementation.

7.2 December 5, 2007

The changes in this cycle address the following updates:

7.3 December 13, 2007

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on December 13, 2007, this document is now Released for Implementation.

7.4 March 19, 2008

This document has been updated to include the HITSP Security and Privacy constructs and has been updated to reflect the new template.

This Interoperability Specification has been updated to reflect the following nursing terminology consensus statement:

This Interoperability Specification will use the CHIrecommended SNOMED CT as a reference terminology to communicateinteroperable information among and between systems, with the HITSPInteroperability Specification Precondition that the sending andusing systems must use formal coded nursing terminologies such asthe Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System and the Omaha Systemthat are integrated in SNOMED CT.

7.5 March 27, 2008

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on March 27, 2008, this document is now Released for Implementation.

The following changes have been made to the construct:

Modified the following standard names/descriptions in Table 2.3-1 List of Standards to provide more clarity and specificity for the optionality described in HITSP/TP13:

o Removed high level reference to IHE ITI-TF Revision 4

o Added specific reference to Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) IT Infrastructure Technical Framework (ITI-TF) Revision 4.0, Section 10 Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.a)

o Modified Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) IT Infrastructure Technical Framework (ITI-TF) Volume 2 Supplement 2007 2008 Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing-B (XDS.b) description by moving extraneous content into the narrative of HITSP/TP13

o Modified Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) IT Infrastructure Technical Framework (ITI-TF) Revision 4.0 - Registry Stored Query Transaction for XDS Profile Supplement standard name by adding [ITI-18] for additional clarity

In addition, a table of Guiding Regulations has been added to Section 4.1.

7.6 August 20, 2008

This document has been modified to reflect the updated HITSP approach to categorizing standards as Regulatory Guidance, Selected Standards, and Informative References. Please refer to the underlying constructs for specific changes to standards

References to C37 have been updated to reflect the correct document title: HITSP/C37 - Lab Report Document

7.7 August 27, 2008

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on August 27, 2008, this document is now Released for Implementation.

7.8 December 10, 2008

Updates for inclusion of finalized published version of the OASIS HAVE specification as originally established as an intended for use standard in previous IS02 version. Updates made to the following sections:

Table 6-4 Daily Facility Summary Report Elements: Updated to reflect final OASIS HAVE V1.0 name, SDO Link, SDO Definition, and SDO Datatype

7.9 December 18, 2008

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on December 18, 2008, this document is now Released for Implementation.



[1] Per IHE Metadata source/query codes, R2 refers to Required if Known

[2] This metadata element is optional in the XDS Provide and Register Transaction, but required for use with the Biosurveillance specifications.

[3] HITSP references HL7 2.5.1 messaging for lab results reporting and HL7 2.5 for other messages. Future maintenance work will move toward referencing a single HL7 version across HITSP documents.

[4] HITSP references HL7 2.5.1 messaging for lab results reporting and HL7 2.5 for other messages. Future maintenance work will move toward referencing a single HL7 version across HITSP documents.