HL7 Electronic Health Record System Functional Model, Release 2.1.1
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Requirements: CPS.4 Support Orders (Header)

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Statement N:

Support for Orders is required to ensure that appropriate decision support and safety checks are conducted by the system at the time of ordering as well as at the time of dispensing medications or immunizations.

 Description I:

Support for orders includes the management of order set templates, the support for specific types of orders including medication, immunization, non-medication, diagnostic tests as well as blood products and biologicals.

Decision Support for orders includes checking for allergies or adverse interactions, dosing checking and issuing the appropriate warnings. It may also include functions to increase ordering efficiency such as verifying all necessary information to fulfill the order is captured and making recommendations for supporting orders.

A component of ordering medications and immunizations is the dispensing of those orders and, where applicable, this function will include criteria to support dispensing. Note: Administration of Orders is included in CPS.6 (Support for Treatment Administration).