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

HL7 Personal Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2, published by EHR WG. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.1-ballot built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/phrsfm-ig/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

: PH.3.6.1 Public Health Reporting (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>Provide reporting to authorized public health agencies as required by applicable jurisdictional law.</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>Government authorities with the mandate of preserving the health of the population have a need for early detection of public health threats such as identifying the early stages of an avian flu pandemic. This may require periodic reporting of certain de-identified personal health information (PHI). Other epidemiological studies for public health issues as well as public or private medical research studies may also request de-identified PHI. Certain public health reporting requires identified PHI and contact information for urgent epidemiologic investigations and countermeasures (such as for a resistant Tuberculosis outbreak).</p>\n<p>Note: When transmitting de-identified bio-surveillance data to a Public Health system, the receiver should understand the possibility that a single case may be inadvertently counted twice: once as an identified case from an EHR system, and once as a de-identified case from a PHR system.</p>\n<p>Example(s): The system SHALL conform to function S.3.3.1 (Manage Consents and Authorizations) regarding epidemiological investigations of clinical health within a population.</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.3.6.1#01</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <i>dependent</i>\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 export de-identified and/or anonymized data for bio-surveillance and public health reporting to legally authorized public health agencies with appropriate consent 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/measure.html\">https://www.hl7.org/fhir/measure.html</a></li>\n                \n                </ol>\n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.3.6.1#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 PHR Account Holder the ability to manage a subscription to population health web site information.</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.3.6.1#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 capture alerts or warnings regarding population health threats.</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.3.6.1#04</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                \n                <i>conditional</i>\n                \n                \n                <span>SHALL</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\" class=\"requirement\">\n                \n                <span><div><p>IF providing de-identified data to legally authorized public health agencies, THEN the system SHALL conform to function S.3.3.1 (Manage Consents and Authorizations) regarding “Epidemiological Investigations of Clinical Health Within a Population&quot; when providing de-identified data to legally authorized public health agencies.</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.3.6.1#05</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 render information from population health web sites.</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.3.6.1#06</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 de-identify data requested by public health agencies including appropriate consent.</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n        <tr>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\n                \n                <span>PH.3.6.1#07</span>\n                \n            </td>\n            <td style=\"padding-left: 4px;\">\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 render notification to the PHR Account Holder regarding data requests from Public Health Agencies.</p>\n</div></span>\n                \n                \n            </td>\n        </tr>\n        \n    </table>\n</div>"
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  "title" : "PH.3.6.1 Public Health Reporting (Function)",
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  "date" : "2025-08-29T14:03:44+00:00",
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