HL7 Personal Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2
2.0.1-ballot - Normative Ballot

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: PH.2.5.8 Maintain Family History (Function) - JSON Representation

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    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">\n    <span id=\"description\"><b>Statement <a href=\"https://hl7.org/fhir/versions.html#std-process\" title=\"Normative Content\" class=\"normative-flag\">N</a>:</b> <div><p>Manage the PHR Account Holder's Family Health History.</p>\n</div></span>\n\n    \n    <span id=\"purpose\"><b>Description <a href=\"https://hl7.org/fhir/versions.html#std-process\" title=\"Informative Content\" class=\"informative-flag\">I</a>:</b> <div><p>The family history traditionally imparts the PHR Account Holder with certain risks and probabilities of illnesses that have a familial component. The major illnesses and cause of death of primary family members should be captured and displayed. For some illnesses of the PHR Account Holder a negative family history is also pertinent such as for cancer.</p>\n</div></span>\n    \n\n    \n    \n    \n\n    \n    <span id=\"requirements\"><b>Criteria <a href=\"https://hl7.org/fhir/versions.html#std-process\" title=\"Normative Content\" class=\"normative-flag\">N</a>:</b></span>\n    \n    <table id=\"statements\" class=\"grid dict\">\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.2.5.8#01</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <i>dependent</i>\n                \n                \n                \n                <span>SHALL</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\" class=\"requirement\">\n                \n                <span><div><p>The system SHALL provide the ability to manage family history according to organizational policy and/or jurisdictional law.</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n                Satisfied by:<ol>\n                \n                    <li><a href=\"https://www.hl7.org/fhir/familymemberhistory.html\">https://www.hl7.org/fhir/familymemberhistory.html</a></li>\n                \n                </ol>\n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.2.5.8#02</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                \n                \n                <span>SHOULD</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\" class=\"requirement\">\n                \n                <span><div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to capture, maintain, and transmit a request-for-correction to family history that was captured from an external source. Note: There could be multiple types of errors, both unintentional and intentional; the errors could also reside in multiple storage locations (primary, secondary, and intermediary); the errors could also reside in current records or in archived records; there could also be multiple sources (author, custodian-of-record, transcriptionist).</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.2.5.8#03</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                \n                \n                <span>SHOULD</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\" class=\"requirement\">\n                \n                <span><div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability for the PHR Account Holder to annotate the family history with text comments (e.g., &quot;Great-grandmother Alice was lost at sea” and that &quot;Uncle Robert disagrees with the cause-of-death attributed to great-grandmother Alice&quot;.)</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.2.5.8#04</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                \n                \n                <span>SHALL</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\" class=\"requirement\">\n                \n                <span><div><p>The system SHALL provide the ability to enter missing information regarding the family history.</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.2.5.8#05</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <i>dependent</i>\n                \n                \n                \n                <span>MAY</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\" class=\"requirement\">\n                \n                <span><div><p>The system MAY provide the ability to exchange family history entries with the PHR Accounts of other family members according to user preference and/or consent, user role, organizational policy, and/or jurisdictional law.</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n    </table>\n</div>"
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  "name" : "PH_2_5_8_Maintain_Family_History",
  "title" : "PH.2.5.8 Maintain Family History (Function)",
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  "date" : "2025-08-29T14:03:44+00:00",
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