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

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## Requirements: CPS.3.3 Support for Standard Care Plans, Guidelines, Protocols (Function)

Official URL: http://hl7.org/ehrs/uv/ehrsfmr2/Requirements/EHRSFMR2-CPS.3.3 | Version: 2.1.1
Standards status: Normative Active as of 2025-12-13 | Computable Name: CPS_3_3_Support_for_Standard_Care_Plans__Guidelines__Protocols

Support the use of appropriate standard care plans, guidelines, protocols, and/or clinical pathways for the management of specific conditions.

Description I:

A core capability of Clinical Decision Support is that of providing guidelines, plans and protocols to clinicians. These templates or forms can be specific for populations, medical conditions or individual patients. Before they can be used in care provision standard care plans, guidelines, protocols, and clinical pathways must be created. These templates or forms may reside within the system or be provided through links to external sources, and can be modified and used on a site specific basis. To facilitate retrospective decision support, variances from standard care plans, guidelines, protocols and clinical pathways can be identified and reported.

Criteria N:

CPS.3.3#01 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture and maintain site-specific care plans, guidelines, protocols, and clinical pathways.
CPS.3.3#02 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to maintain site-specific modifications to standard care plans, guidelines, protocols, and clinical pathways obtained from outside sources.
CPS.3.3#03 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD determine variances from standard care plans, guidelines, protocols, and clinical pathways and provide the ability to capture, maintain and render appropriate alerts, notifications and reports.
CPS.3.3#04 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD determine variances from standard care plans, guidelines and protocols for reportable conditions and provide the ability to capture, maintain and transmit related information to public health.
CPS.3.3#05 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD conform to function POP.4 (Support for Monitoring Response Notifications Regarding a Specific Patient's Health).
CPS.3.3#06 | SHALL | The system SHALL conform to function CPS.3.4 (Support for Context-Sensitive Care Plans, Guidelines, Protocols).
CPS.3.3#07 | SHALL | The system SHALL conform to function CPS.3.1 (Support for Standard Assessments).
CPS.3.3#08 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture, maintain and render condition-specific guidelines (e.g., based on age or weight).
CPS.3.3#09 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture documents using standards-based documentation templates to support data exchanges.
CPS.3.3#10 | MAY | The system MAY provide the ability to maintain standard choices for disposition (e.g., reviewed and filed, recall patient, or future follow-up).
CPS.3.3#11 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to manage patient disposition status configuration parameters.
CPS.3.3#12 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to tag and render an indicator that a patient record is incomplete (e.g., not finalized or authenticated/signed).
CPS.3.3#13 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD provide the ability to render an indicator that a patient record is incomplete (e.g., not finalized or authenticated/signed) when a discharge or transfer order is entered into the system.
CPS.3.3#14 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD tag specific missing elements/sections of incomplete records.
CPS.3.3#15 | SHOULD | The system SHOULD capture research protocol deviation information, including any verbatim text of protocol deviation.