The API that is being documented here is designed to securely facilitate the patient authentication and the sharing of patient data via a Continuity of Care Document (CCD). eMDs client's, the Practice/Clinic, will supply vendor systems with the necessary access tokens for checking API accessibility status for the practice, validate patient through credential authentication and retrieve the patient CCD based on patient elections for expiration, CCD category and/or date range.
Prerequsites: The vendor system will need both a Practice token and an API token provided by the Practice. Once you have these two tokens (provided by the Practice/Clinic) you will be able to experiment with the following web methods.
To be able to interact with this API, the following components are required:
The data available from the eMDs Data Gateway is in the following areas of the patient health record. There are capabilities to filter this data by area and by date. As required, this API is enabled to filter the result CCD to a date range established by the patient during the authentication process. Due to clinical best practices, eMDs has decided to include additional category information beyond the selected date range. If filtering by date, there are policies in place to ensure that clinically relevant data for decision making is not excluded. The policies for each area of the patient health record available on the CCD are listed below.
The following list of CCD sections are optionally filtered by date range.
The following list of CCD sections are optionally filtered by date range. Observations with an Active status will also be returned, regardless of the date range specified:
The following list of CCD sections return all available patient health information within the EHR, regardless of the date range specified:
CCD sections that return the most recently documented information on a Visit Note, regardless of the date range specified:
CCD sections that return the most recently documented information on a Care Plan, regardless of the date range specified:
The data available from the eMDs Data Gateway is in the following areas of the patient health record. There are capabilities to filter this data by area and by date. As required, this API is enabled to filter the result CCD to a date range established by the patient during the authentication process. Due to clinical best practices, eMDs has decided to include additional category information beyond the selected date range. If filtering by date, there are policies in place to ensure that clinically relevant data for decision making is not excluded. The policies for each area of the patient health record available on the CCD are listed below.
The following list of CCD sections are optionally filtered by date range.
The following list of CCD sections are optionally filtered by date range. Observations with an Active status will also be returned, regardless of the date range specified:
The following list of CCD sections return all available patient health information within the EHR, regardless of the date range specified:
CCD sections that return all documented information on a Visit Note, regardless of the date range specified:
CCD sections that return all documented information on a Care Plan, regardless of the date range specified:
HL7 CDA Implementation Guide
http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=408
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2015 Edition Certification Companion Guide
https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/2015Ed_CCG_CCDS.pdf