Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RESP-NET) Content Implementation Guide
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Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RESP-NET) Content Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Public Health. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-resp-net-ig/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RESP-NET) Content IG Home

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/resp-net/ImplementationGuide/hl7.fhir.us.resp-net Version: 1.0.0
IG Standards status: Trial-use Maturity Level: 2 Computable Name: RESPNET
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.40.52

Contents:

Introduction

The Respiratory Virus Hospitalization Surveillance Network (RESP-NET) comprises three platforms that conduct population-based public health surveillance for laboratory-confirmed hospitalizations associated with COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) among children and adults. Surveillance is conducted through a network of acute care hospitals in select counties in 13 states. The surveillance platforms for COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV (known as COVID-NET, FluSurv-NET, and RSV-NET, respectively) cover more than 29 million people and include an estimated 8-10% of the U.S. population.

This guide leverages the US Core IG, Subscriptions Backport IG, US Public Health Profiles Library IG, and electronic Case Reporting (eCR) IG along with other relevant existing health data and exchange standards to provide the profiles and necessary extensions required for patient-level data exchange on persons hospitalized with respiratory viruses to public health surveillance partners in RESP-NET. The goal is to improve the availability of EHR data for public health surveillance of hospitalized persons with influenza and other respiratory viruses and reduce the burden of data collection on surveillance officers and healthcare facilities and complement ongoing CDC data modernization initiatives. It also refers to the MedMorph Reference Architecture (RA) IG for organizations who utilize the Health Data Exchange App (HDEA) in their implementations.

Technical Overview

The main sections of this IG are:

  • Use Cases - The use cases provide business context for the IG and information that implementers should familiarize themselves with prior to reading the remainder of the IG.
  • Detailed Specification - The formal specification identifying the requirements for the implementers.
  • Downloads - Allows downloading a copy of this implementation guide and other useful information.