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

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 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.2.5.8 Maintain Family History (Function)

Page standards status: Normative

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    <div id="description"><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>
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            PH.2.5.8#01
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            SHALL
            
            
            
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                <div><p>The system SHALL provide the ability to manage family history according to organizational policy and/or jurisdictional law.</p>
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                Satisfied by:<ol>
                <li><a href="https://www.hl7.org/fhir/familymemberhistory.html">https://www.hl7.org/fhir/familymemberhistory.html</a></li>
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            PH.2.5.8#02
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            SHOULD
            
            
            
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            <td style="padding-left: 4px;" class="requirement">
                <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>
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            PH.2.5.8#03
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            SHOULD
            
            
            
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            <td style="padding-left: 4px;" class="requirement">
                <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>
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            <td style="padding-left: 4px;">
            PH.2.5.8#04
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            SHALL
            
            
            
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                <div><p>The system SHALL provide the ability to enter missing information regarding the family history.</p>
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            <td style="padding-left: 4px;">
            PH.2.5.8#05
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            <td style="padding-left: 4px;">
            MAY
            
            
            
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            <td style="padding-left: 4px;" class="requirement">
                <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>
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  <name value="PH_2_5_8_Maintain_Family_History"/>
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  <date value="2025-12-07T09:26:53+00:00"/>
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