Health+Domain+Teams

The goal of the Health Domain Workgroup is to: Develop specifications to address information exchanges required for workflows associated with specific healthcare domains, such as clinical care, public health, pharmacy and others.

This workgroup will have the following domains:
**Continuity of care between providers**, which includes meaningful use provisions associated with:
 * Summary of care for each transition of care and referral
 * Capability to exchange key clinical information (coordination)
 * Retrieval of lab results

**Consumer Empowerment**, which includes meaningful use provisions associated with:
 * Provide patients a copy of their electronic health information
 * Timely electronic access/ clinical summaries for each visit

**Pharmacy information exchanges**, which includes meaningful use provisions associated with:
 * E-prescribing
 * Medication history

**Public Health**, which includes meaningful use provisions associated with:
 * Submit data to immunization registries
 * Submit reportable lab results to public health agencies
 * Provide electronic syndrome surveillance

**Quality Reporting**, which includes meaningful use provisions associated with:
 * Submit quality reports

Healthcare Claims and Administration, which would focus on CMS requirements to implement X12-based administrative transactions over the Nationwide Health Information Network