Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Context Bindings to concept domain(s):
  ActClass in Realm: UV as CNE

Description:

A code specifying the major type of Act that this Act-instance represents.

Constraints: The classCode domain is a tightly controlled vocabulary, not an external or user-defined vocabulary.

Every Act-instance must have a classCode. If the act class is not further specified, the most general Act.classCode (ACT) is used.

The Act.classCode must be a generalization of the specific Act concept (e.g., as expressed in Act.code), in other words, the Act concepts conveyed in an Act must be specializations of the Act.classCode. Especially, Act.code is not a "modifier" that can alter the meaning of a class code. (See Act.code for contrast.)

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A unit of work, a grouper of work items as defined by the system performing that work. Typically some laboratory order fulfillers communicate references to accessions in their communications regarding laboratory orders. Often one or more specimens are related to an accession such that in some environments the accession number is taken as an identifier for a specimen (group).

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An accommodation is a service provided for a Person or other LivingSubject in which a place is provided for the subject to reside for a period of time. Commonly used to track the provision of ward, private and semi-private accommodations for a patient.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A financial account established to track the net result of financial acts.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:

An acquisition exposure act describes the proximity (location and time) through which the participating entity was potentially exposed to a physical (including energy), chemical or biological agent from another entity. The acquisition exposure act is used in conjunction with transmission exposure acts as part of an analysis technique for contact tracing. Although an exposure can be decomposed into transmission and acquisition exposures, there is no requirement that all exposures be treated in this fashion.

Constraints: The Acquisition Exposure inherits the participation constraints that apply to Exposure with the following exception. The EXPSRC (exposure source) participation must never be associated with the Transmission Exposure either directly or via context conduction.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Sender asks addressee to do something depending on the focal Act of the payload. An example is "fulfill this order". Addressee has responsibilities to either reject the message or to act on it in an appropriate way (specified by the specific receiver responsibilities for the interaction).

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:A battery specifies a set of observations. These observations typically have a logical or practical grouping for generally accepted clinical or functional purposes, such as observations that are run together because of automation. A battery can define required and optional components and, in some cases, will define complex rules that determine whether or not a particular observation is made.

Examples: "Blood pressure", "Full blood count", "Chemistry panel".

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:A sequence of biomolecule like the DNA, RNA, protein and the like.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:A variation in a sequence as described by BioSequence.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A Region of Interest (ROI) specified for a multidimensional observation, such as an Observation Series (OBSSER). The ROI is specified using a set of observation criteria, each delineating the boundary of the region in one of the dimensions in the multidimensional observation. The relationship between a ROI and its referenced Act is specified through an ActRelationship of type subject (SUBJ), which must always be present. Each of the boundary criteria observations is connected with the ROI using ActRelationships of type "has component" (COMP). In each boundary criterion, the Act.code names the dimension and the Observation.value specifies the range of values inside the region. Typically the bounded dimension is continuous, and so the Observation.value will be an interval (IVL) data type. The Observation.value need not be specified if the respective dimension is only named but not constrained. For example, an ROI for the QT interval of a certain beat in ECG Lead II would contain 2 boundary criteria, one naming the interval in time (constrained), and the other naming the interval in ECG Lead II (only named, but not constrained).

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An Act that of taking on whole or partial responsibility for, or attention to, safety and well-being of a subject of care.

Discussion: A care provision event may exist without any other care actions taking place. For example, when a patient is assigned to the care of a particular health professional.

In request (RQO) mood care provision communicates a referral, which is a request:

• from one party (linked as a participant of type author (AUT)),

• to another party (linked as a participant of type performer (PRF),

• to take responsibility for a scope specified by the code attribute,

• for an entity (linked as a participant of type subject (SBJ)).

The scope of the care for which responsibility is taken is identified by code attribute.

In event (EVN) mood care provision indicates the effective time interval of a specified scope of responsibility by a performer (PRF) or set of performers (PRF) for a subject (SBJ).

Examples:

1. Referral from GP to a specialist.

2. Assignment of a patient or group of patients to the case list of a health professional.

3. Assignment of inpatients to the care of particular nurses for a working shift.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A group of entries within a composition or topic that have a common characteristic - for example, Examination, Diagnosis, Management OR Subjective, Objective, Analysis, Plan.

The distinction from Topic relates to value sets. For Category there is a bounded list of things like "Examination", "Diagnosis" or SOAP categories. For Topic the list is wide open to any clinical condition or reason for a part of an encounter.

A CATEGORY MAY CONTAIN ENTRIES.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A clinical document that conforms to Level One of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A clinical document is a documentation of clinical observations and services, with the following characteristics: (1) Persistence - A clinical document continues to exist in an unaltered state, for a time period defined by local and regulatory requirements; (2) Stewardship - A clinical document is maintained by a person or organization entrusted with its care; (3) Potential for authentication - A clinical document is an assemblage of information that is intended to be legally authenticated; (4) Wholeness - Authentication of a clinical document applies to the whole and does not apply to portions of the document without the full context of the document; (5) Human readability - A clinical document is human readable."

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

The set of actions that define an experiment to assess the effectiveness and/or safety of a biopharmaceutical product (food, drug, device, etc.). In definition mood, this set of actions is often embodied in a clinical trial protocol; in event mood, this designates the aggregate act of applying the actions to one or more subjects.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An identified point during a clinical trial at which one or more actions are scheduled to be performed (definition mood), or are actually performed (event mood). The actions may or may not involve an encounter between the subject and a healthcare professional.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A group of entries within a composition, topic or category that have a logical association with one another.

The representation of a single observation or action might itself be multi-part. The data might need to be represented as a nested set of values, as a table, list, or as a time series. The Cluster class permits such aggregation within an entry for such compound data.

Examples include "Haematology investigations" which might include two or more distinct batteries.

A cluster may contain batteries and/or individual entries

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A context representing a grouped commitment of information to the EHR. It is considered the unit of modification of the record, the unit of transmission in record extracts, and the unit of attestation by authorizing clinicians.

A composition represents part of a patient record originating from a single interaction between an authenticator and the record.

Unless otherwise stated all statements within a composition have the same authenticator, apply to the same patient and were recorded in a single session of use of a single application.

A composition contains organizers and entries.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An observable finding or state that persists over time and tends to require intervention or management, and, therefore, distinguished from an Observation made at a point in time; may exist before an Observation of the Condition is made or after interventions to manage the Condition are undertaken. Examples: equipment repair status, device recall status, a health risk, a financial risk, public health risk, pregnancy, health maintenance, chronic illness

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

The Consent class represents informed consents and all similar medico-legal transactions between the patient (or his legal guardian) and the provider. Examples are informed consent for surgical procedures, informed consent for clinical trials, advanced beneficiary notice, against medical advice decline from service, release of information agreement, etc.

The details of consents vary. Often an institution has a number of different consent forms for various purposes, including reminding the physician about the topics to mention. Such forms also include patient education material. In electronic medical record communication, consents thus are information-generating acts on their own and need to be managed similar to medical activities. Thus, Consent is modeled as a special class of Act.

The "signatures" to the consent document are represented electronically through Participation instances to the consent object. Typically an informed consent has Participation.typeCode of "performer", the healthcare provider informing the patient, and "consenter", the patient or legal guardian. Some consent may associate a witness or a notary public (e.g., living wills, advanced directives). In consents where a healthcare provider is not required (e.g. living will), the performer may be the patient himself or a notary public.

Some consent has a minimum required delay between the consent and the service, so as to allow the patient to rethink his decisions. This minimum delay can be expressed in the act definition by the ActRelationship.pauseQuantity attribute that delays the service until the pause time has elapsed after the consent has been completed.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Used to group a set of acts sharing a common context. Container structures can nest within other context structures - such as where a document is contained within a folder, or a folder is contained within an EHR extract.

Open issue: There is a clear conflict between this act and the use of the more general "component" ActRelationship. The question that must be resolved is what should be the class code of the parent (or containing) Act.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An Act where a container is registered either via an automated sensor, such as a barcode reader, or by manual receipt

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An agreement of obligation between two or more parties that is subject to contractual law and enforcement.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An act representing a system action such as the change of state of another act or the initiation of a query. All control acts represent trigger events in the HL7 context. ControlActs may occur in different moods.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Container for Observation Sequences (Observations whose values are contained in LIST<>'s) having values correlated with each other. Each contained Observation Sequence LIST<> must be the same length. Values in the LIST<>'s are correlated based on index. E.g. the values in position 2 in all the LIST<>'s are correlated. This is analogous to a table where each column is an Observation Sequence with a LIST<> of values, and each row in the table is a correlation between the columns. For example, a 12-lead ECG would contain 13 sequences: one sequence for time, and a sequence for each of the 12 leads.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

When used in the EVN mood, this concept means with respect to a covered party:

1. A health care insurance policy or plan that is contractually binding between two or more parties; or

2. A health care program, usually administered by government entities, that provides coverage to persons determined eligible under the terms of the program.

• When used in the definition (DEF) mood, COV means potential coverage for a patient who may or may not be a covered party.

• The concept's meaning is fully specified by the choice of ActCoverageTypeCode (abstract) ActProgramCode or ActInsurancePolicyCode.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An observation identifying a potential adverse outcome as a result of an Act or combination of Acts.

Examples: Detection of a drug-drug interaction; Identification of a late-submission for an invoice; Requesting discharge for a patient who does not meet hospital-defined discharge criteria.

Discussion: This class is commonly used for identifying 'business rule' or 'process' problems that may result in a refusal to carry out a particular request. In some circumstances it may be possible to 'bypass' a problem by modifying the request to acknowledge the issue and/or by providing some form of mitigation.

Constraints: the Act or Acts that may cause the the adverse outcome are the target of a subject ActRelationship. The subbtypes of this concept indicate the type of problem being detected (e.g. drug-drug interaction) while the Observation.value is used to repesent a specific problem code (e.g. specific drug-drug interaction id).

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:A determinant peptide in a polypeptide as described by polypeptide.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Class for holding attributes unique to diagnostic images.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An action taken with respect to a subject Entity by a regulatory or authoritative body with supervisory capacity over that entity. The action is taken in response to behavior by the subject Entity that body finds to be undesirable.

Suspension, license restrictions, monetary fine, letter of reprimand, mandated training, mandated supervision, etc. Examples:

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Specialization of Act to add the characteristics unique to document management services.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A context that distinguishes the body of a document from the document header. This is seen, for instance, in HTML documents, which have discrete <head> and <body> elements.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A context that subdivides the body of a document. Document sections are typically used for human navigation, to give a reader a clue as to the expected content. Document sections are used to organize and provide consistency to the contents of a document body. Document sections can contain document sections and can contain entries.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A context that comprises all compositions. The EHR is an extract that includes the entire chart.

NOTE: In an exchange scenario, an EHR is a specialization of an extract.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An interaction between a patient and healthcare participant(s) for the purpose of providing patient service(s) or assessing the health status of a patient. For example, outpatient visit to multiple departments, home health support (including physical therapy), inpatient hospital stay, emergency room visit, field visit (e.g., traffic accident), office visit, occupational therapy, telephone call.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Context Bindings to concept domain(s):
  ActClassExposure in Realm: C1 as CNE

Description:

The action of coming into sufficient physical proximity to allow physical or chemical interaction. Examples include: exposure to radiation, inhalation of peanut aerosol or viral particles. This includes intended exposure (e.g. administering a drug product) as well as accidental or environmental exposure. Actual vs. potential exposure can be differentiated using Act.uncertaintyCode.

The agent to which the subject was exposed is conveyed as a Direct participation or specialization there-of.

Constraints: The following Participations should be used with the following Roles and Entities to distinguish the specific entities:

• The exposed entity is the entity of interest that is the recipient of the exposure and potentially affected. This is conveyed through the subject (SBJ) Participation.

• An entity that has carried the agent transmitted in the exposure is the " exposure source " (EXSRC). For example:

  • a person or animal who carried an infectious disease and interacts (EXSRC) with another person or animal (SBJ) transmitting the disease agent; or

  • a place or other environment (EXSRC) and a person or animal (SBJ) who is exposed in the presence of this environment.

• When it is unknown whether a participating entity is the source of the agent (EXSRC) or the target of the transmission (SBJ), also known as " exposure contact ", the "participant" (PART) is used.

• The substance to which the subject is exposed that carries the exposure agent or the chemical substance of interest itself, participates as a "consumable" (CSM). There are at least two configurations: (a) the player of the Role that participates as CSM is the chemical or biological substance mixed or carried by the scoper-entity of the Role (e.g., ingredient role); or (b) the player of the Role that participates as CSM is a mixture known to contain the chemical, radiological or biological substance of interest.

• The device specifically used to administer the substance is associated using the device (DEV) Participation. This may be a device intentionally used (such as applicator device) or it may be a thing that accidentally carried this substance; for instance, an infected needle or knife. The same entity may be related in the act as both EXSRC and DEV.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:An expression level of genes/proteins or other expressed genomic entities.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

This context represents the part of a patient record conveyed in a single communication. It is drawn from a providing system for the purposes of communication to a requesting process (which might be another repository, a client application or a middleware service such as an electronic guideline engine), and supporting the faithful inclusion of the communicated data in the receiving system.

An extract may be the entirety of the patient record as held by the sender or it may be a part of that record (e.g. changes since a specified date).

An extract contains folders or compositions.

An extract cannot contain another extract.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A transformation process where a requested invoice is transformed into an agreed invoice. Represents the adjudication processing of an invoice (claim). Adjudication results can be adjudicated as submitted, with adjustments or refused.

Adjudication results comprise 2 components: the adjudication processing results and a restated (or adjudicated) invoice or claim

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A contract whose value is measured in monetary terms.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A sub-class of Act representing any transaction between two accounts whose value is measured in monetary terms.

In the "intent" mood, communicates a request for a transaction to be initiated, or communicates a transfer of value between two accounts.

In the "event" mood, communicates the posting of a transaction to an account.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Context Bindings to concept domain(s):
  ActClassGenomicObservation in Realm: C1 as CNE

Description:

Description:An observation of genomic phenomena.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An event that occurred outside of the control of one or more of the parties involved. Includes the concept of an accident.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

The act of transmitting information and understanding about a topic to a subject where the participation association must be SBJ.

Discussion: This act may be used to request that a patient or provider be informed about an Act, or to indicate that a person was informed about a particular act.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Sender sends payload to addressee as information. Addressee does not have responsibilities beyond serving addressee's own interest (i.e., read and memorize if you see fit). This is equivalent to an FYI on a memo.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An formalized inquiry into the circumstances surrounding a particular unplanned event or potential event for the purposes of identifying possible causes and contributing factors for the event. This investigation could be conducted at a local institutional level or at the level of a local or national government.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Represents concepts related to invoice processing in health care

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:A mandate, regulation, obligation, requirement, rule, or expectation unilaterally imposed by a jurisdiction on:

• The activity of another party

• The behavior of another party

• The manner in which an act is executed

Examples:A jurisdictional mandate regarding the prescribing and dispensing of a particular medication. A jurisdictional privacy or security regulation dictating the manner in which personal health information is disclosed. A jurisdictional requirement that certain services or health conditions are reported to a monitoring program, e.g., immunizations, methadone treatment, or cancer registries.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:The position of a gene (or other significant sequence) on the genome.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An officially or unofficially instituted program to track acts of a particular type or categorization.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:An act that is intended to result in new information about a subject. The main difference between Observations and other Acts is that Observations have a value attribute. The code attribute of Observation and the value attribute of Observation must be considered in combination to determine the semantics of the observation.

Discussion:

Structurally, many observations are name-value-pairs, where the Observation.code (inherited from Act) is the name and the Observation.value is the value of the property. Such a construct is also known as a variable (a named feature that can assume a value) hence, the Observation class is always used to hold generic name-value-pairs or variables, even though the variable valuation may not be the result of an elaborate observation method. It may be a simple answer to a question or it may be an assertion or setting of a parameter.

As with all Act statements, Observation statements describe what was done, and in the case of Observations, this includes a description of what was actually observed (results or answers); and those results or answers are part of the observation and not split off into other objects.

The method of action is asserted by the Observation classCode or its subclasses at the least granular level, by the Observation.code attribute value at the medium level of granularity, and by the attribute value of observation.methodCode when a finer level of granularity is required. The method in whole or in part may also appear in the attribute value of Observation.value when using coded data types to express the value of the attribute. Relevant aspects of methodology may also be restated in value when the results themselves imply or state a methodology.

An observation may consist of component observations each having their own Observation.code and Observation.value. In this case, the composite observation may not have an Observation.value for itself. For instance, a white blood cell count consists of the sub-observations for the counts of the various granulocytes, lymphocytes and other normal or abnormal blood cells (e.g., blasts). The overall white blood cell count Observation itself may therefore not have a value by itself (even though it could have one, e.g., the sum total of white blood cells). Thus, as long as an Act is essentially an Act of recognizing and noting information about a subject, it is an Observation, regardless of whether it has a simple value by itself or whether it has sub-observations.

Even though observations are professional acts (see Act) and as such are intentional actions, this does not require that every possible outcome of an observation be pondered in advance of it being actually made. For instance, differential white blood cell counts (WBC) rarely show blasts, but if they do, this is part of the WBC observation even though blasts might not be predefined in the structure of a normal WBC.

Clinical documents commonly have Subjective and Objective findings, both of which are kinds of Observations. In addition, clinical documents commonly contain Assessments, which are also kinds of Observations. Thus, the establishment of a diagnosis is an Observation.

Examples:

• Recording the results of a Family History Assessment

• Laboratory test and associated result

• Physical exam test and associated result

• Device temperature

• Soil lead level

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Container for Correlated Observation Sequences sharing a common frame of reference. All Observations of the same cd must be comparable and relative to the common frame of reference. For example, a 3-channel ECG device records a 12-lead ECG in 4 steps (3 leads at a time). Each of the separate 3-channel recordings would be in their own "OBSCOR". And, all 4 OBSCOR would be contained in one OBSSER because all the times are relative to the same origin (beginning of the recording) and all the ECG signals were from a fixed set of electrodes.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:A mandate, obligation, requirement, rule, or expectation unilaterally imposed by an organization on:

• The activity of another party

• The behavior of another party

• The manner in which an act is executed

Examples:A clinical or research protocols imposed by a payer, a malpractice insurer, or an institution to which a provider must adhere. A mandate imposed by a denominational institution for a provider to provide or withhold certain information from the patient about treatment options.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An outbreak represents a series of public health cases. The date on which an outbreak starts is the earliest date of onset among the cases assigned to the outbreak, and its ending date is the last date of onset among the cases assigned to the outbreak.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A Region of Interest (ROI) specified for an image using an overlay shape. Typically used to make reference to specific regions in images, e.g., to specify the location of a radiologic finding in an image or to specify the site of a physical finding by "circling" a region in a schematic picture of a human body. The units of the coordinate values are in pixels. The origin is in the upper left hand corner, with positive X values going to the right and positive Y values going down. The relationship between a ROI and its referenced Act is specified through an ActRelationship of type "subject" (SUBJ), which must always be present.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:A genomic phenomenon that is expressed externally in the organism.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Context Bindings to concept domain(s):
  ActClassPolicy in Realm: C1 as CNE

Description:

Description:A mandate, regulation, obligation, requirement, rule, or expectation unilaterally imposed by one party on:

• The activity of another party

• The behavior of another party

• The manner in which an act is executed

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:A polypeptide resulting from the translation of a gene.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An observation denoting the physical location of a person or thing based on a reference coordinate system.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:An observation representing the degree to which the assignment of the spatial coordinates, based on a matching algorithm by a geocoding engine against a reference spatial database, matches true or accepted values.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:An observation representing one of a set of numerical values used to determine the position of a place. The name of the coordinate value is determined by the reference coordinate system.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Context Bindings to concept domain(s):
  ActClassProcedure in Realm: C1 as CNE

Description:

An Act whose immediate and primary outcome (post-condition) is the alteration of the physical condition of the subject.

Examples: : Procedures may involve the disruption of some body surface (e.g. an incision in a surgical procedure), but they also include conservative procedures such as reduction of a luxated join, chiropractic treatment, massage, balneotherapy, acupuncture, shiatsu, etc. Outside of clinical medicine, procedures may be such things as alteration of environments (e.g. straightening rivers, draining swamps, building dams) or the repair or change of machinery etc.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A public health case is an Observation representing a condition or event that has a specific significance for public health. Typically it involves an instance or instances of a reportable infectious disease or other condition. The public health case can include a health-related event concerning a single individual or it may refer to multiple health-related events that are occurrences of the same disease or condition of interest to public health. An outbreak involving multiple individuals may be considered as a type of public health case. A public health case definition (Act.moodCode = "definition") includes the description of the clinical, laboratory, and epidemiologic indicators associated with a disease or condition of interest to public health. There are case definitions for conditions that are reportable, as well as for those that are not. There are also case definitions for outbreaks. A public health case definition is a construct used by public health for the purpose of counting cases, and should not be used as clinical indications for treatment. Examples include AIDS, toxic-shock syndrome, and salmonellosis and their associated indicators that are used to define a case.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Regions of Interest (ROI) within a subject Act. Primarily used for making secondary observations on a subset of a subject observation. The relationship between a ROI and its referenced Act is specified through an ActRelationship of type "subject" (SUBJ), which must always be present.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Represents the act of maintaining information about the registration of its associated registered subject. The subject can be either an Act or a Role, and includes subjects such as lab exam definitions, drug protocol definitions, prescriptions, persons, patients, practitioners, and equipment.

The registration may have a unique identifier - separate from the unique identification of the subject - as well as a core set of related participations and act relationships that characterize the registration event and aid in the disposition of the subject information by a receiving system. Usage notes:

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

The act of examining and evaluating the subject, usually another act. For example, "This prescription needs to be reviewed in 2 months."

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A record of something that is being done, has been done, can be done, or is intended or requested to be done.

Examples:The kinds of acts that are common in health care are (1) a clinical observation, (2) an assessment of health condition (such as problems and diagnoses), (3) healthcare goals, (4) treatment services (such as medication, surgery, physical and psychological therapy), (5) assisting, monitoring or attending, (6) training and education services to patients and their next of kin, (7) and notary services (such as advanced directives or living will), (8) editing and maintaining documents, and many others.

Discussion and Rationale: Acts are the pivot of the RIM; all domain information and processes are represented primarily in Acts. Any profession or business, including healthcare, is primarily constituted of intentional and occasionally non-intentional actions, performed and recorded by responsible actors. An Act-instance is a record of such an action.

Acts connect to Entities in their Roles through Participations and connect to other Acts through ActRelationships. Participations are the authors, performers and other responsible parties as well as subjects and beneficiaries (which includes tools and material used in the performance of the act, which are also subjects). The moodCode distinguishes between Acts that are meant as factual records, vs. records of intended or ordered services, and the other modalities in which act can appear.

One of the Participations that all acts have (at least implicitly) is a primary author, who is responsible of the Act and who "owns" the act. Responsibility for the act means responsibility for what is being stated in the Act and as what it is stated. Ownership of the act is assumed in the sense of who may operationally modify the same act. Ownership and responsibility of the Act is not the same as ownership or responsibility of what the Act-object refers to in the real world. The same real world activity can be described by two people, each being the author of their Act, describing the same real world activity. Yet one can be a witness while the other can be a principal performer. The performer has responsibilities for the physical actions; the witness only has responsibility for making a true statement to the best of his or her ability. The two Act-instances may even disagree, but because each is properly attributed to its author, such disagreements can exist side by side and left to arbitration by a recipient of these Act-instances.

In this sense, an Act-instance represents a "statement" according to Rector and Nowlan (1991) [Foundations for an electronic medical record. Methods Inf Med. 30.] Rector and Nowlan have emphasized the importance of understanding the medical record not as a collection of facts, but "a faithful record of what clinicians have heard, seen, thought, and done." Rector and Nowlan go on saying that "the other requirements for a medical record, e.g., that it be attributable and permanent, follow naturally from this view." Indeed the Act class is this attributable statement, and the rules of updating acts (discussed in the state-transition model, see Act.statusCode) versus generating new Act-instances are designed according to this principle of permanent attributable statements.

Rector and Nolan focus on the electronic medical record as a collection of statements, while attributed statements, these are still mostly factual statements. However, the Act class goes beyond this limitation to attributed factual statements, representing what is known as "speech-acts" in linguistics and philosophy. The notion of speech-act includes that there is pragmatic meaning in language utterances, aside from just factual statements; and that these utterances interact with the real world to change the state of affairs, even directly cause physical activities to happen. For example, an order is a speech act that (provided it is issued adequately) will cause the ordered action to be physically performed. The speech act theory has culminated in the seminal work by Austin (1962) [How to do things with words. Oxford University Press].

An activity in the real world may progress from defined, through planned and ordered to executed, which is represented as the mood of the Act. Even though one might think of a single activity as progressing from planned to executed, this progression is reflected by multiple Act-instances, each having one and only one mood that will not change along the Act-instance life cycle. This is because the attribution and content of speech acts along this progression of an activity may be different, and it is often critical that a permanent and faithful record be maintained of this progression. The specification of orders or promises or plans must not be overwritten by the specification of what was actually done, so as to allow comparing actions with their earlier specifications. Act-instances that describe this progression of the same real world activity are linked through the ActRelationships (of the relationship category "sequel").

Act as statements or speech-acts are the only representation of real world facts or processes in the HL7 RIM. The truth about the real world is constructed through a combination (and arbitration) of such attributed statements only, and there is no class in the RIM whose objects represent "objective state of affairs" or "real processes" independent from attributed statements. As such, there is no distinction between an activity and its documentation. Every Act includes both to varying degrees. For example, a factual statement made about recent (but past) activities, authored (and signed) by the performer of such activities, is commonly known as a procedure report or original documentation (e.g., surgical procedure report, clinic note etc.). Conversely, a status update on an activity that is presently in progress, authored by the performer (or a close observer) is considered to capture that activity (and is later superceded by a full procedure report). However, both status update and procedure report are acts of the same kind, only distinguished by mood and state (see statusCode) and completeness of the information.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:An ethical or clinical obligation, requirement, rule, or expectation imposed or strongly encouraged by organizations that oversee particular clinical domains or provider certification which define the boundaries within which a provider may practice and which may have legal basis or ramifications on:

• The activity of another party

• The behavior of another party

• The manner in which an act is executed

Examples:An ethical obligation for a provider to fully inform a patient about all treatment options. An ethical obligation for a provider not to disclose personal health information that meets certain criteria, e.g., where disclosure might result in harm to the patient or another person. The set of health care services which a provider is credentialed or privileged to provide.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A procedure for obtaining a specimen from a source entity.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An observation on a specimen in a laboratory environment that may affect processing, analysis or result interpretation

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A procedure or treatment performed on a specimen to prepare it for analysis

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:A requirement, rule, or expectation typically documented as guidelines, protocols, or formularies imposed or strongly encouraged by an organization that oversees or has authority over the practices within a domain, and which may have legal basis or ramifications on:

• The activity of another party

• The behavior of another party

• The manner in which an act is executed

Examples:A payer may require a prescribing provider to adhere to formulary guidelines. An institution may adopt clinical guidelines and protocols and implement these within its electronic health record and decision support systems.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Sender transmits a status change pertaining to the focal act of the payload. This status of the focal act is the final state of the state transition. This can be either a request or a command, according to the mood of the control act.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Context Bindings to concept domain(s):
  ActClassStorage in Realm: C1 as CNE

Description:

The act of putting something away for safe keeping. The "something" may be physical object such as a specimen, or information, such as observations regarding a specimen.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

The spatial relationship of a subject whether human, other animal, or plant, to a frame of reference such as gravity or a collection device.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

The act of introducing or otherwise applying a substance to the subject.

Discussion: The effect of the substance is typically established on a biochemical basis, however, that is not a requirement. For example, radiotherapy can largely be described in the same way, especially if it is a systemic therapy such as radio-iodine. This class also includes the application of chemical treatments to an area.

Examples: Chemotherapy protocol; Drug prescription; Vaccination record

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Definition: Indicates that the subject Act has undergone or should undergo substitution of a type indicated by Act.code.

Rationale: Used to specify "allowed" substitution when creating orders, "actual" susbstitution when sending events, as well as the reason for the substitution and who was responsible for it.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Supply orders and deliveries are simple Acts that focus on the delivered product. The product is associated with the Supply Act via Participation.typeCode="product". With general Supply Acts, the precise identification of the Material (manufacturer, serial numbers, etc.) is important. Most of the detailed information about the Supply should be represented using the Material class. If delivery needs to be scheduled, tracked, and billed separately, one can associate a Transportation Act with the Supply Act. Pharmacy dispense services are represented as Supply Acts, associated with a SubstanceAdministration Act. The SubstanceAdministration class represents the administration of medication, while dispensing is supply.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

A group of entries within a composition that are related to a common clinical theme - such as a specific disorder or problem, prevention, screening and provision of contraceptive services.

A topic may contain categories and entries.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Definition: The act of transferring information without the intent of imparting understanding about a topic to the subject that is the recipient or holder of the transferred information where the participation association must be RCV or HLD.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Description:

A transmission exposure act describes the proximity (time and location) over which the participating source entity was capable of transmitting a physical (including energy), chemical or biological substance agent to another entity. The transmission exposure act is used in conjunction with acquisition exposure acts as part of an analysis technique for contact tracing. Although an exposure can be decomposed into transmission and acquisition exposures, there is no requirement that all exposures be treated in this fashion.

Constraints: The Transmission Exposure inherits the participation constraints that apply to Exposure with the following exception. The EXPTRGT (exposure target) participation must never be associated with the Transmission Exposure either directly or via context conduction.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Transportation is the moving of a payload (people or material) from a location of origin to a destination location. Thus, any transport service has the three target instances of type payload, origin, and destination, besides the targets that are generally used for any service (i.e., performer, device, etc.)

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

An act which describes the process whereby a 'verifying party' validates either the existence of the Role attested to by some Credential or the actual Vetting act and its details.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Working list collects a dynamic list of individual instances of Act via ActRelationship which reflects the need of an individual worker, team of workers, or an organization to manage lists of acts for many different clinical and administrative reasons. Examples of working lists include problem lists, goal lists, allergy lists, and to-do lists.

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Description:

Definition: When identifying the "request" that resulted in an encounter, there is a need to distinguish whether the "request" was a general referral (CareProvisionRequest) or a more specific ordered or scheduled encounter (PatientEncounter).

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Has Associated Concept Properties:
  Name:Class: DocumentEntry

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Has Associated Concept Properties:
  Name:Class: DocumentOrganizer

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Content from code system(s):
1  ActClass [2.16.840.1.113883.5.6]

Has Associated Concept Properties:
  Name:Class: LabProcess