Introduction

This page provides an abstract specification for the Demographic service in openEHR.

openEHR Specification

(To be completed)

Source Specifications

Below are some service definitions used in current openEHR products, from which design concepts have been drawn for the openEHR Demographic service.

openEHR Community

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Relevant Standards

PIDS (from CORBAmed)

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IHE PDQ (Patient demographic query)

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Microsoft CHF

Persons and Identities Component

The Persons and Identities Component stores, maintains and enables access to data regarding a Person, their Health enrollment (as Patient) and their Social Care enrollment (as Social Care Client). Capabilities are provided to input, validate, maintain, store and output personal demographic data such as name and address, personal details, family relationships and care arrangements and limited medical and social care-related data. A linkage is provided via the personal identifier to the different identifiers used in the health and care domains, of which there could be many. Details of patient and client care and treatments are often stored in local doctors, care professionals, hospital and social work department systems in local ePRs (electronic patient records) or eCRs (electronic care records. Linkages are provided to these systems in the form of pointers, or URLs to the appropriate ePR or eCR records.

Indicative Business Services (p111, CHF part 2):

Record new person and their demographics
Registers Patient
Records Person Death
Records Birth of Child (and create Person and Health/Care Record)
Records Person Emigration (deregister)
Searches for Person (or Patient or Client) by Personal/Patient/Client Number or Name/Address/DoB etc.
Provides Personal Demographic Data
Provides Family Links (Father, Mother, Children, etc)
Provides Next of Kin Information
Updates Personal Details and Preferences (by the Person)
Updates Donor/Volunteer Information
Updates Family Information (incl. Next of Kin) (by the Person)
Provide Care Residence information
Provide Carer information
Maintain demographic classifications

Patient and Client Groups Component - Indivcative business services (p115, CHF part 2).

The Patient and Client Groups component provides facilities for the definition, formation, operation, analysis and reporting of patient/client groups and the population of such groups with relevant patients or clients. Screening Groups are formed to perform preventative medicine and clinical surveillance of defined groups of patients. Care Groups are formed to provide help and assistance to persons with similar care needs and might include self help and voluntary care sector activities as well as "official" provisions.

Provides Screening Group Definition capability
Provides Risk Factor Definition and Evaluation capability
Provides Group Membership Qualifying Criteria
Provides Patient or Client Search against Qualifying Criteria
Provides Candidate Membership List
Produces Membership Invitations
Enrolls Patient in Screening Group
Enrolls Social Care Client in Care Group
Schedules Screening Test
Performs Screening Test
Records Screening Test Results
Records Care Group Progress and Outcomes
Performs Individual Screening Test Results Analyses
Evaluates Results
Provides for Communication of Results to Patient or Client
Performs Group Analyses
Reports Conclusions and Trends

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