HL7 Personal Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2
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: TI.5.4 Interchange Agreements (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>Systems that wish to communicate with each other must agree on certain parameters/criteria that will govern an information exchange process. Interchange agreements enable partnering systems to discover, negotiate, and utilize those parameters/criteria. A PHR-S can use this information to define how data will be exchanged between the sending and the receiving partners. Interchange services and capabilities can be discovered in an automated fashion.</p>
<p>Entity directories can be used to determine the address, profile, and data exchange requirements of known, and/or potential Interchange Agreement partners. Entity registries can be used to determine the security, addressing, and reliability requirements between potential Interchange Agreement partnering systems.</p>
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            TI.5.4#01
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                <div><p>The system SHALL exchange information with Interchange Agreement partners based on interoperability agreement descriptions.</p>
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            TI.5.4#02
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            SHOULD
            
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                <div><p>IF an interchange agreement description specifies the use of a certain standard, THEN the system SHOULD exchange information using the standard specified by the interchange agreement description according to scope of practice, organizational policy, and/or jurisdictional law.</p>
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            TI.5.4#03
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            TI.5.4#04
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            MAY
            
            
            
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                <div><p>The system MAY analyze and present interchange service descriptions and capabilities according to scope of practice, organizational policy, and/or jurisdictional law.</p>
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            TI.5.4#05
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                <div><p>The system SHOULD provide the ability to manage Interchange Agreements that have been established with Interchange Agreement partners.</p>
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