# POP.6.1 Outcome Measures and Analysis (Function) - HL7 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2.1.1 v2.1.1

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

 
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. 



## Resource Content

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  "url" : "http://hl7.org/ehrs/uv/ehrsfmr2/Requirements/EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1",
  "version" : "2.1.1",
  "name" : "POP_6_1_Outcome_Measures_and_Analysis",
  "title" : "POP.6.1 Outcome Measures and Analysis (Function)",
  "status" : "active",
  "date" : "2025-12-13T09:06:06+00:00",
  "publisher" : "HL7 International / Electronic Health Records",
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  "description" : "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.",
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          "code" : "001",
          "display" : "World"
        }
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    }
  ],
  "purpose" : "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).",
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      ],
      "key" : "EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1-01",
      "label" : "POP.6.1#01",
      "conformance" : ["SHOULD"],
      "conditionality" : false,
      "requirement" : "The system SHOULD provide the ability to render data required to evaluate patient outcomes.",
      "derivedFrom" : "EHR-S_FM_R1.1 S.2.1.1#1"
    },
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      "key" : "EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1-02",
      "label" : "POP.6.1#02",
      "conformance" : ["SHOULD"],
      "conditionality" : false,
      "requirement" : "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.",
      "derivedFrom" : "EHR-S_FM_R1.1 S.2.1.1#2"
    },
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      "key" : "EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1-03",
      "label" : "POP.6.1#03",
      "conformance" : ["SHOULD"],
      "conditionality" : false,
      "requirement" : "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.",
      "derivedFrom" : "EHR-S_FM_R1.1 S.2.1.1#3"
    },
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      "key" : "EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1-04",
      "label" : "POP.6.1#04",
      "conformance" : ["SHOULD"],
      "conditionality" : false,
      "requirement" : "The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture and maintain measures to evaluate patient, and/or population outcomes to meet various regional requirements.",
      "derivedFrom" : "EHR-S_FM_R1.1 S.2.1.1#4"
    },
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      "key" : "EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1-05",
      "label" : "POP.6.1#05",
      "conformance" : ["SHOULD"],
      "conditionality" : false,
      "requirement" : "The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture and render unique patient and/or population outcome data defined to meet regional requirements.",
      "derivedFrom" : "EHR-S_FM_R1.1 S.2.1.1#5"
    },
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      "key" : "EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1-06",
      "label" : "POP.6.1#06",
      "conformance" : ["SHOULD"],
      "conditionality" : false,
      "requirement" : "The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture, maintain and render report formats for the export of patient, and/or population outcome data.",
      "derivedFrom" : "EHR-S_FM_R1.1 S.2.1.1#6"
    },
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      "key" : "EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1-07",
      "label" : "POP.6.1#07",
      "conformance" : ["SHOULD"],
      "conditionality" : false,
      "requirement" : "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.",
      "derivedFrom" : "EHR-S_FM_R1.1 S.2.1.1#7"
    },
    {
      "extension" : [
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          "valueBoolean" : false
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      "key" : "EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1-08",
      "label" : "POP.6.1#08",
      "conformance" : ["SHOULD"],
      "conditionality" : false,
      "requirement" : "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.",
      "derivedFrom" : "EHR-S_FM_R1.1 S.2.1.1#8"
    },
    {
      "extension" : [
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          "valueBoolean" : false
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      "key" : "EHRSFMR2-POP.6.1-09",
      "label" : "POP.6.1#09",
      "conformance" : ["SHALL"],
      "conditionality" : false,
      "requirement" : "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)."
    },
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      "label" : "POP.6.1#10",
      "conformance" : ["SHALL"],
      "conditionality" : true,
      "requirement" : "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."
    }
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}

```
