SDOH Clinical Care
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SDOH Clinical Care, published by HL7 International / Patient Care. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.2.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-sdoh-clinicalcare/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

SDOH Clinical Care Background

Page standards status: Informative

Conceptual Framework

Coded SDOH content is captured across core health care activities: screening/assessment, establishing health concerns, goal setting, care planning, interventions, outcomes and reporting. The conceptual framework, illustrated below, shows how these activities form a cycle of care. Over time, a patient’s progress toward care goals can be tracked and measured.

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Figure 1: Conceptual Framework

Scope of this IG

The focus for this version of the IG is to standardize the exchange of SDOH information related to the following activities:

  • assessment of social risk,
  • establishing coded health concerns/problems,
  • creating patient driven goals, and
  • defining a RESTful closed loop referral process to manage interventions.

Out of Scope

The following items are out of scope for this version of the IG.

  • Providing guidance on the frequency of administering assessments (this is left up to the responsible organizations based on their standards of practice).
  • Standards for reporting quality measures to payers or quality organizations (this is left to the Data Exchange for Quality Measures Implementation Guide that was co-authored by NCQA).
  • Addressing Consent beyond the consent to share information between a HIPAA covered entity and entities that are not covered by HIPAA.
  • Administrative activities such as eligibility checking, prior authorization, or billing for SDOH services.

Scope of Interactions

The focus of this IG is interactions between a patient, provider, and CBO, with possible intermediation by a Coordination Platform (CP). Provider EHRs and CPs will act as both clients and servers, accepting data from other systems and allowing it to be queried, while also storing data on and retrieving data from other systems. Patient systems will act only as clients - accessing and sometimes manipulating data on other systems, but not exposing interfaces for other systems to interact with. The IG supports interactions with CBOs that support either a FHIR-enabled application (e.g. phone, tablet, web application) that queries other systems but does not expose its own data for query, or as a FHIR-Server Enabled application that exposes its own data for query and manipulation as well as querying and sometimes updating other systems. In the drawing below, bidirectional solid arrows reflect communication between two endpoints with FHIR servers, whereas unidirectional solid arrows reflect FHIR API calls by a FHIR-enabled application against a FHIR server.

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Figure 2: System Interactions



Data Modeling Framework

The diagram below reflects the primary data structures and relationships associated with each of the major business processes covered by this implementation guide:

In the diagram, blue shapes indicate profiles defined in this IG and yellow shapes indicate profiles defined in IGs on which we have dependencies (US Core or SDC). Only key references between profiles are shown. Most participant resources (Patient, Practitioner, Organization, etc.) are excluded because they are referenced from most profiles.


Figure 3: Data Modeling Framework