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The main objective of the Healthcare project,
Community Services and Provider Directory (HCSPD) is to specify a set of
standard services that allows socio-clinical and health operators, through a
set of parameters, to seek health services offered by health care facilities
or by other actors in the sector, so as to ensure continuous assistance in
patient care. A sort of yellow pages, in health care, to refer to the
identification of the provider of a socio-clinical and health service
necessary for patient care, and in what place / organization that service
provision is provided.
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To date, there are no specific standards for the
achievement of a genuine own directory of Healthcare service and their
Providers. In fact, every project in the field of HSD, realized until today
(except for the HCSPD project), started from scratch and has developed its own
model (both information and behavioral) in socio-clinical and health domain to
which the project was aimed. So, currently, the only normative reference on the
subject, is the functional model of the HSD service that has been defined and
standardized as part of HL7 V3 Standard Regulations, Edition 2010.
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It should be noted, moreover, that there is a
reference implementation of the Human Services Directory at the state of
Victoria in Australia, in fact, the Department of Health (DHS) of that state
has undertaken an HSD initiative to provide a single Information source,
reliable, relevant and current, on social and clinical-health provided in
the territory of Victoria.Currently, this directory is used extensively by
a large number of initiatives, and is an aid to a number of functions such
as: Nurse on Call (24x7 Telephone Triage Service); the
Better Health Channel (Consumer & Practitioner Web Site of Health
information), HealthSMART (The Victorian Health Services eHealth Program) e
Disability Online, as well as to daily activities like eReferral
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Such a system contains more than 14,000
organizations covering more than 15,000 sites, and has more than 23,000
socio-clinical and health professionals, including 5,800 general practitioners
in the state of Victoria. The number of services offered through these sites is
greater than 30,000.
The required compliance profiles under the
Service are:
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ServD Locator
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Component that provides indexing addresses
instances of ServD Core belonging to a network and Coverage Areas and
consists of the Locator functions (localization), Maintenance Locator (useful for integration / change / delete activities) and
Search;
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ServD Core
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Component that exposes the search interface to
enable searching for information on health-related services.
ServD Core is the minimum
required implementation because a service can be certified as ServD
compliant. All instances of ServD Core must exhibit both the interface of
Search that the interface of Retrieve Details (useful to allow the
utilization of the detail data obtained with the search function);
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Maintainable ServD
Core
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Component that exposes the management interface
for the service data maintenance;
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ServD Verifier
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Component that exposes the Verify Details interface
to allow secure verification of attributes declared by an organization,
healthcare provider (doctor) or physical structure that provides the service;
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Searching
Application
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Application used to search for informations
related to health services through the invocation of the ServD Locator and
ServD Core components;
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Maintenance Application
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A component that calls the interface of Maintenance to update the service information.
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Within the HealthSoaf project it was considered
to circumscribe the activities realization at the level of compliance as
provided for ServD Core component, which will be added also the design and
development of Locator functionality scheduled for ServD Locator component.
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