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Information Exchange for Human Services
The Information Exchange for Human Services (IX4HS) project will evaluate and identify existing and developing standards (such as the Direct Standard®), or create new standards or profiles as needed, for the secure communication of sensitive information between healthcare settings and Human Services organizations as well as between Human Services organizations for the purposes of endpoint discovery, referral, information exchange, information requests, and care coordination.
The work of IX4HS is not meant to replace or supplant the many groups dedicated to addressing secure information exchange related to SDoH, like The Gravity Project, Project Unify, 360x, and HL7’s SDoH-related work. Rather, IX4HS is meant to focus in on how Direct might work in conjunction with these organizations, teams, standards, and workflows to make the largest and most immediate impact through a profile possibly leveraging Direct.
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ANSI PINS Abstract
The proposed “Referrals via FHIR® over Direct” standard specifies how existing HL7® FHIR Referral Resources, as profiled in HL7 IGs for healthcare to/from healthcare and healthcare to/from social care organizations, may be exchanged with referral network partners as attachments to a Direct Secure Message. This specification will include necessary workflow to exchange a referral and to accept, reject, or otherwise “close the loop” for a referral via the Direct Standard® using appropriate FHIR Resource attachments. Metadata will be used to convey information about the referral included in attachments. In addition, this specification will include informative (non-normative) guidelines on human readable content to accompany the standard normative attachments for each transaction.
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DS2021_04: Information Exchange for Human Services Consensus Body
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