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

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## : CP.3.4 Manage Patient-Specific Care and Treatment Plans (Function)

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                CP.3.4#01
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                    <div><p>The system SHALL provide the ability to manage patient-specific plans of care and treatment.</p>
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                CP.3.4#02
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                    <div><p>The system SHALL conform to function <a href="Requirements-EHRSFMR2-CP.7.1.html">CP.7.1</a> (Present Guidelines and Protocols for Planning Care) and provide the ability to render locally or non-locally developed templates, guidelines, and protocols for the creation of patient-specific plans of care and treatment.</p>
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                CP.3.4#03
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture metadata regarding a patient's plan of care or treatment (e.g., authors, creation date, version history, references, local sources and non-local sources) according to scope of practice, organizational policy, and/or jurisdictional law.</p>
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                CP.3.4#04
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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to link order sets with care plans.</p>
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                CP.3.4#05
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to link the care plan with condition(s) in problem lists.</p>
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                CP.3.4#06
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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to determine and render order sets from care plans.</p>
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                    <div><p>The system MAY provide the ability to determine and render care plans from order sets.</p>
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                CP.3.4#08
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to transmit care plans and treatment plans to other care providers.</p>
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                CP.3.4#09
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD conform to function <a href="Requirements-EHRSFMR2-AS.5.1.html">AS.5.1</a> (Clinical Task Creation, Assignment and Routing) to link care plan items into the tasks assigned and routed.</p>
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                CP.3.4#10
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD conform to function <a href="Requirements-EHRSFMR2-AS.5.3.html">AS.5.3</a> (Clinical Task Linking) to link care plan items and tasks.</p>
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                CP.3.4#11
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD conform to function <a href="Requirements-EHRSFMR2-AS.5.4.html">AS.5.4</a> (Clinical Task Status Tracking) to link care plan items with tasks tracked.</p>
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                CP.3.4#12
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD conform to function <a href="Requirements-EHRSFMR2-CPS.4.2.2.html">CPS.4.2.2</a> (Support for Patient-Specific Dosing and Warnings) to determine and render related warnings on drug dosing and interactions.</p>
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                CP.3.4#13
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                MAY

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                    <div><p>The system MAY conform to function <a href="Requirements-EHRSFMR2-CPS.1.7.1.html">CPS.1.7.1</a> (Support for Patient and Family Preferences) to improve the effectiveness of care and treatment plans.</p>
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                CP.3.4#14
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                    <div><p>The system MAY provide the ability to determine and render a care plan review schedule or conference schedule.</p>
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                CP.3.4#15
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                SHALL

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                    <div><p>The system SHALL provide the ability to capture, maintain and render, as discrete data, the reason for variation from rule-based clinical messages (e.g., alerts and reminders).</p>
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                CP.3.4#16
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture that a patient should not be on a generally recommended care plan and the reason why.</p>
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                CP.3.4#17
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                SHALL

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                    <div><p>The system SHALL provide the ability to capture care processes across the continuum of care.</p>
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                CP.3.4#18
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to render care processes from across the continuum of care.</p>
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                <td style="padding-left: 4px;">
                CP.3.4#19
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                <td style="padding-left: 4px;">
                SHALL

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                    <div><p>The system SHALL provide the ability to render internal care plans, guidelines, and protocols according to scope of practice.</p>
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                CP.3.4#20
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                SHOULD

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                    <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to render external care plans, guidelines, and protocols according to scope of practice, and/or organizational policy.</p>
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