Continuity of Care Record
Continuity of Care Record (CCR)[1] is a health record standard specification developed jointly by ASTM International, the Massachusetts Medical Society[1] (MMS), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Academy of Pediatrics[2] (AAP), and other health informatics vendors.
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CCR Background and Purpose [edit]
The CCR was generated by health care practitioners based on their views of the data they may want to share in any given situation.[2][not in citation given] The CCR document is used to allow timely and focused transmition of information to other health professionals involved in the patient's care. [2] The CCR aims to increase the role of the patient in managing their health and reduce error while improving continuity of patient care.[3] The CCR's intent is also to create a standard of health information transportability when a patient is transferred or referred, or is seen by another healthcare professional. [4]
The CCR standard [edit]
The CCR standard is a patient health summary standard. It is a way to create flexible documents that contain the most relevant and timely core health information about a patient, and to send these electronically from one caregiver to another. It contains various sections such as patient demographics, insurance information, diagnoses and problem list, medications, allergies and care plan. These represent a "snapshot" of a patient's health data that can be useful or possibly lifesaving, if available at the time of clinical encounter. [2] The ASTM CCR standard's purpose is to permit easy creation by a physician using an electronic health record (EHR) system at the end of an encounter. [2]</ref>
Because it is expressed in the standard data interchange language known as XML, a CCR can potentially be created, read, and interpreted by any EHR or EMR software application. A CCR can also be exported to other formats, such as PDF or Office Open XML (Microsoft Word 2007 format). [4]
The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) is an HL7 CDA implementation of the Continuity of Care Record (CCR). A CCR document can generally be converted into CCD using Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), but it is not always possible to perform the inverse transformation, since some CCD features are not supported in CCR.[5] HITSP provides reference information that demonstrates how CCD and CCR (as HITSP C32) are embedded in CDA.[6]
Although the CCR and CCD standards could continue to coexist, with CCR providing for basic information requests and CCD servicing more detailed requests, the newer CCD standard might eventually completely supplant CCR.[7]
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ ASTM CCR Continuity of Care Record
- ^ a b c d Ferranti, Jeffrey M.; Musser, R. Clayton; Kawamoto, Kensaku; Hammond, W. Ed (May–Jun 2006). "The Clinical Document Architecture and the Continuity of Care Record: A Critical Analysis". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 13 (3): 245–252. doi:10.1197/jamia.M1963. PMC 1513652. PMID 16501180.
- ^ Kibbe, D. C., Phillips, R. L., & Green, L. A. (2004). The Continuity of Care Record. American Family Physician , 70 (7), 1220-1223.
- ^ a b Americal Society for Testing and Materials.(2013). Continuity of Care Record:The Concept Paper of the CCR.
- ^ http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449305024/meaningful_use_interoperability.html
- ^ http://publicaa.ansi.org/sites/apdl/hitspadmin/Matrices/HITSP_09_N_451.pdf
- ^ http://e-caremanagement.com/untangling-the-electronic-health-data-exchange/
External links [edit]
- ASTM CCR Standard E2369-05
- Medical Records Institute - CCR
- Center for Health Information Technology (CHiT)
- CCR Java library
