Procedure Referral Workgroup Mission Statement

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This page describes the mission statement of this WG.

The mission of the WG is to realize a technical profile in HL7 FHIR format that describes a procedure referral. A 'procedure referral' is in general any prescription that is not a prescription for medical content e.g. a prescription for diagnostic imaging or a prescription for kinesitherapy treatment.

As such, this WG considers the following points in scope of its mission:

• The description of high level use cases detailing the usage of this message.
  • These use cases will take the flavours of the identified specific use cases that were already identified i.e. diagnostic imaging and kinesitherapy
• The delivery of a logical datamodel of what is to be send in these transactions:
  • The constituent parts of the referral (e.g. a patient, a practitioner, obervation(s),...)
  • The actual content of these parts (e.g. cardinalities, where and which codesystems shall be used,...)
• The delivery of FHIR artefacts profiling the appropriate resources to make this datamodel possible in FHIR

This WG considers these points explicitly out of scope:

• Architectural decisions how this message will be send (e.g. SOAP message, REST interface,...)
• Decisions around use of as-is or to-be developed solutions to send this message (e.g. use of eHealth box, regional vaults,...)
• Detailed semantic studies to determine subsets of codesystems (e.g. a SNOMED-CT subset to define a list of pathologies,...)