HL7 Standards and IHE Profiles in the MeaningfulUse Stage2 Final Rule

The following HL7 Standards and IHE Profiles are required in some way the Final Rule on Standards and Certification criteria.  They are either named directly, or are required via one or more references within the named standards and/or implementation guides:

Summary Records

• HL7 Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2.0, Normative Edition: Referenced by HITSP C32, Cancer Registry Guide, and HL7 IHE/Health Story Consolidation Guides
• HL7 IHE/Health Story Consolidation Guide, version 1.1 Summary Records
• Health Level Seven Implementation Guide: Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Release 2—Continuity of Care Document (CCD) View only for historical content in Stage 2
• HL7 V3 Vocabulary: Referenced by IHE/Health Story Guides (you can find that content in the CDA R2 Normative Edition)

Family History

• HL7 Version 3 Standard: Clinical Genomics; Pedigree, Release 1, Edition 2011

Public Health Reporting

• HL7 Version 2.5.1
• HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health, Release 1
• HL7 v2.5.1 IG: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health (US Realm), Release 1 Errata and Clarifications

Laboratory Reporting

• HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: S&I Framework Lab Results Interface, Release 1 - US Realm

Quality Reporting

• HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA® Release 2: Quality Reporting Document Architecture, DTSU Release 2 (Universal Realm)

Patient Education and Referential Clinical Decision Support Content Access

• HL7 Version 3 Standard: Context-Aware Retrieval Application (Infobutton); Release 1
• HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: URL-Based Implementations of the Context-Aware Information Retrieval (Infobutton) Domain, Release 3
• HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval (Infobutton) Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation Guide, Release 1

Transport
Both of the following can be found in the ITI Technical Framework

• IHE Cross Document Sharing via Reliable Messaging: Referenced by XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging
• IHE Cross Document Sharing via Media: Referenced by XDR and XDM for Direct Messaging

Other Helpful Content

In addition, the following two IHE profiles will be very helpful as I mentioned here:

Patient Education and Referential Clinical Decision Support Content Access

• IHE Retrieve Clinical Knowledge (RCK)

Problem, Medication and Allergy Reconciliation

• IHE Reconciliation of Problems, Medications and Allergies (RECON)

The IHE XDR and XDM profiles, RCK, RECON, and the HL7 IHE/Health Story Guides will be tested at the 2013 North American IHE Connectathon in January, which I suggest you attend.