Submitted By: Riki Merrick / Association of Public Health Laboratories | |
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Data Element Information | |
Use Case Description(s) | |
Use Case Description | Often LIS are not patient centric, like EHR-s, but specimen centric, so this identifier is used as the primary key to locate all data that belongs to this specimen. To support communication between provider and lab and between lab and public health agency this identifier is very important. It must be stressed, that this identifier should be unique within the assigning authority and not reused over time (though that may still be a practice in some labs). |
Estimate the breadth of applicability of the use case(s) for this data element | This element should be associated with EVERY lab test and its related data elements, so will be in EHR-s, LIS, PHR, Surveillance system and disease registries. |
Link to use case project page | http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=98 LRI: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=279 FHIR observation in US Core lab observation profile: https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/US-Core/Struct |
Use Case Description | This also applies to lab data exchanges between lab and providers LRI: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=279 FHIR observation in US Core lab observation profile: https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/US-Core/StructureDefinition-us-core-observation-lab.html references the specimen, but it is not a must support element at this time; the FHIR specimen resource refers to this element as specimen.accessionIdentifier |
Estimate the breadth of applicability of the use case(s) for this data element | This element should be associated with EVERY lab test and its related data elements, so will be in EHR-s, LIS, PHR, Surveillance system and disease registries. |
Healthcare Aims |
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Maturity of Use and Technical Specifications for Data Element | |
Applicable Standard(s) | N/A |
Additional Specifications | N/A |
Current Use | This data element has been used at scale between multiple different production environments to support the majority of anticipated stakeholders |
Extent of exchange | 5 or more. This data element has been tested at scale between multiple different production environments to support the majority of anticipated stakeholders. |
Potential Challenges | |
Restrictions on Standardization (e.g. proprietary code) | none |
Restrictions on Use (e.g. licensing, user fees) | none |
Privacy and Security Concerns | none |
Estimate of Overall Burden | should already be widely used - what may still need to be expanded is the persistence of the assigning authority with the identifier. |
Analysis of clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient.
Data Element |
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Accession number
Description
The unique identifier for a single instance of a specimen received by a laboratory and its analysis. |
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Submitted by Riki Merrick on 2022-09-30
APHL Comments on ISA 2022
APHL still supports inclusion of this data element in the Laboratory class of USCDI V4.