SMART DAK Cervical Cancer Screening, published by Dan Heslinga (independent contributor). This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.0.1 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/dhes/smart-dak-cxca/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

References

This DAK references the following sources, both for clinical content and for the methodology contributions documented at Adapting Guidelines for Country Use.

Clinical sources

• Mongolia Ministry of Health. Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Surveillance Guideline, Ministerial Order A/641, signed 31 December 2020 by Health Minister T. Münkhsaikhan (Cyrillic title: Умайн хүзүүний хорт хавдрын цогц хяналтын заавар). The legally binding national instrument that this DAK encodes.
• WHO 2021. Guideline for screening and treatment of cervical pre-cancer lesions for cervical cancer prevention, second edition. The L1 source for global cervical content.
• WHO Mongolia. Mongolia launches national programme to eliminate cervical cancer, news release, 22 April 2025. The April 2025 programmatic position (HPV at ages 30 and 40), encoded in this DAK as a programmatic-overlay PlanDefinition.
• WHO Mongolia. MOH and WHO concludes pilot on HPV testing for cervical cancer screening in Mongolia, feature story, 16 April 2026. The April 2026 Khan-Uul pilot operational realities (5,382 tested, 371 HPV+, 184 cytology, 187 LTFU); the empirical motivation for the cascade-completion eCQM and the NotDone pattern.
• UNFPA Asia-Pacific Regional Office & Cancer Council NSW. Mongolia: Cervical Cancer Elimination — Country Review & Roadmap for Action, January 2022. Analytical groundwork for the April 2025 launch.

Methodology sources

• Mehl, Haskew, et al. A full-STAC remedy for global digital health transformation. The four-quadrant framework (Open Standards, Open Technologies, Open Architectures, Open Content) used as the framing for this DAK.
• McClure et al. 2020. Igniting Harmonized Digital Clinical Quality Measurement through Terminology, CQL, and FHIR. Appl Clin Inform 11:23–33. The harmonization commitment that drives the shared CXCAElements CQL layer.

WHO guideline development resources

• WHO SMART Guidelines — overview of the SMART Guidelines approach
• WHO Handbook for guideline development — WHO guideline development and publication process

Tutorials and reference materials

• SMART IG starter kit — orientation to the SMART IG authoring stack
• Open Health Information Exchange (OpenHIE) Architecture — candidate Open Architectures pattern (per the Full-STAC framing)

For dependencies and FHIR-stack references, see the Dependencies page.