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Long-Term Care-Nursing Homes EHR-Systems Functional Profile: Release 1

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This is Release 1 of the Long Term Care-Nursing Home (LTC-NH) Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S) Functional Profile. Based on, and conformant with, the HL7 EHR-S Functional Model (FM) Release 1, February 2007, this document represents the culmination of one year of extensive work by private and public industry representatives and other stakeholders to identify functional requirements for EHR systems in nursing home settings. This document has been balloted by the LTC-NH EHR-S Functional Profile Workgroup and represents industry consensus on system requirements. [186 PDF pages]