ASTM E2538-06
Historical Standard: ASTM E2538-06 Standard Practice for Defining and Implementing Pharmacotherapy Information Services within the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Environment and Networked Architectures
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ASTM E2538
1. Scope
1.1 This practice applies to the process of defining and documenting the capabilities, logical data sources, and pathways of data exchange regarding pharmacotherapy information services within a given network architecture serving a set of healthcare constituents.
1.2 This practice is not a technical implementation standard but, rather, describes how the implementation methods and techniques can be used to coordinate pharmacotherapy services logically within an electronic health record (EHR) systems environment involving participating organizations and sites connected by a networked communication system.
1.3 This practice covers the content of the nodes and arcs of the resulting logical network involving EHR, pharmacy, and clinical laboratory-capable sites. This practice also considers the various purposes and organizational arrangements for coordinating pharmacotherapy services within the network boundaries and the considerations for connections among external networks.
1.4 This practice refers to other standards for conventions within various data domains, such as pharmacy systems, clinical laboratory information management systems (CLIMS), and EHR systems, and for messaging conventions.
1.5 This practice is intended to outline how integration of pharmacy, CLIMS, and EHR information systems can be undertaken to result in a transparent pharmacotherapy clinical decision support environment, regardless of the underlying implementation architecture, by describing the logical interoperability of information domains as facilitated by information and communications technology (ICT).
1.6 This practice is directed at pharmacists, clinical pharmacologists, clinical laboratorians, information system managers, and information systems vendors for use in planning and implementing coordinated pharmacotherapy services through effective dialog.
This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
ASTM Standards
E1239 Practice for Description of Reservation/Registration-Admission, Discharge, Transfer (R-ADT) Systems for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Systems
E1340 Guide for Rapid Prototyping of Information Systems
E1384 Practice for Content and Structure of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)
E1578 Guide for Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
E1633 Specification for Coded Values Used in the Electronic Health Record
E1714 Guide for Properties of a Universal Healthcare Identifier (UHID)
E1715 Practice for An Object-Oriented Model for Registration, Admitting, Discharge, and Transfer (RADT) Functions in Computer-Based Patient Record Systems
E1744 Practice for View of Emergency Medical Care in the Electronic Health Record
E1762 Guide for Electronic Authentication of Health Care Information
E1869 Guide for Confidentiality, Privacy, Access, and Data Security Principles for Health Information Including Electronic Health Records
E1985 Guide for User Authentication and Authorization
E1986 Guide for Information Access Privileges to Health Information
E1987 Guide for Individual Rights Regarding Health Information
E1988 Guide for Training of Persons who have Access to Health Information
E2017 Guide for Amendments to Health Information
E2066 Guide for Validation of Laboratory Information Management Systems
E2084 Specification for Authentication of Healthcare Information Using Digital Signatures
E2085 Guide on Security Framework for Healthcare Information
E2086 Guide for Internet and Intranet Healthcare Security
E2145 Practice for Information Modeling
E2147 Specification for Audit and Disclosure Logs for Use in Health Information Systems
E2171 Practice for Rating-Scale Measures Relevant to the Electronic Health Record
E2457 Terminology for Healthcare Informatics
E2473 Practice for the Occupational/Environmental Health View of the Electronic Health Record
P110 Proposed Guide to Assist in the Defining, Procuring, Installing, and Implementing of a Computerized Hospital Pharmacy System Withdrawn 1988.
Keywords
EHR; electronic health record; information domain; network architecture; pharmacotherapy information services; Healthcare informatics; Electronic health record (EHR); Healthcare data architecture;
ICS Code
ICS Number Code 35.240.80 (IT applications in health care technology)
DOI: 10.1520/E2538-06
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