HL7 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2.1.1
2.1.1 - Normative

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## Requirements: POP.6.1 Outcome Measures and Analysis (Function)

Official URL: http://hl7.org/ehrs/uv/ehrsfmr2/Requirements/EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1 | Version: 2.1.1
Standards status: Normative Active as of 2025-12-13 | Computable Name: POP_6_1_Outcome_Measures_and_Analysis

Support the capture and subsequent export or retrieval of data necessary for the reporting on patient outcome of care by population, facility, provider or community.

Description I:

Many regions require regular reporting on the healthcare provided to individuals and populations. The system needs to provide the report-generating capability to easily create these reports or provide for the export of data to external report-generating software. The system may also provide the functionality to prompt for the collection of necessary information at the appropriate time in a patient encounter if such collection need can be properly defined in a workflow (e.g., requesting specific information for reporting of emergency services such as drug overdose, suspected abuse, communicable diseases, or for the collection of additional research data for a specific diagnosis).

Criteria N:

POP.6.1#01 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to render data required to evaluate patient outcomes.
POP.6.1#02 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD determine and render data by selection criteria (e.g., physician, facility, facility subsection, clinical research protocol number, or community) to evaluate patient, and/or population outcomes.
POP.6.1#03 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture and maintain outcome measures for a specific patient, and/or groups of patients with a specific diagnosis.
POP.6.1#04 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture and maintain measures to evaluate patient, and/or population outcomes to meet various regional requirements.
POP.6.1#05 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture and render unique patient and/or population outcome data defined to meet regional requirements.
POP.6.1#06 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture, maintain and render report formats for the export of patient, and/or population outcome data.
POP.6.1#07 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture and maintain notification phrases and prompts in the clinical care setting that would request information needed to comply with regional patient, and/or population outcome measurement requirements when specific triggers are met.
POP.6.1#08 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD render patient, and/or population outcome data or query results to appropriate organizations (e.g., Quality Measurement organizations, Accreditation organizations) through a secure data service.
POP.6.1#09 | SHALL | The system SHALL provide the ability to tag patients who have been identified as exempt from being included on certain population-based reports (e.g., reports that would exclude the identity of a very important person (e.g., president of a country).
POP.6.1#10 | SHALL conditional | IF the system provides the ability to tag patients who have been identified as exempt from being included on certain population-based reports, THEN the system SHALL provide the ability to manage-data-visibility for those patients.