Personal Health Record (PHR) Standards

There are many standards, open specifications, and efforts toward standardization of PHR information, and services.

HealthFrame Supported Standards

HealthFrame leverages a wide variety of these standards to increase security, and bring to consumers the benefits of data interoperability.

Some Important Healthcare-related Standards

• Continuity of Care Record (CCR)

  The ASTM Continuity of Care Record enables the exchange of information about a patient's health care that is accessible to clinicians and patients, supporting continuity of care.

• Continuity of Care Document (CCD)

  The HL7 Continuity of Care Document represents the patient health summary record. CCD is the result of the harmonization between HL7's Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and the ASTM's Continuity of Care Record (CCR).

• HealthFrame OpenHealth Services

  HealthFrame's OpenHealth Services specification is designed to leverage the many existing standards for health record representations (e.g. CCR) and report representations (e.g. PDF, HTML), and provide a simple standardized infrastructure for web-based and local services.

• HealthFrame Open PHR Schema(s)

  Records For Living has made publicly and freely available the XML Schemas used for the HealthFrame Personal Health Record software.

• Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

  The U.S. government's National Library of Medicine's (NLM - http://www.nlm.nih.gov) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) facilitates the development of computer systems that behave as if they "understand" the meaning of the language of biomedicine and health.