References and Related Implementation Guides

Supporting standards and reusable implementation guidance

Use these references to understand the standards, information models, and reusable exchange capabilities applied by Care Coordination for Maternal Health – Birth. Apply this guide’s common requirements and the applicable Transaction Definition together with the requirements of the relevant source standard or implementation guide.

Guide or Standard	Read It for Information About	Relationship to Implementation
Metadata and Payloads Framework for Direct	Common exchange concepts, metadata, packaging, actors, correlation, and Provenance.	Common framework concepts and requirements underpin the transaction, metadata, packaging, and Provenance rules in this guide.
AMIA Patient Naming Framework	Consistent representation and interpretation of patient names.	Supports consistent patient-name interpretation in identification and matching workflows.
Workflow Status via Direct	Reporting acceptance or rejection of a structured payload into its intended workflow.	Provides reusable guidance for the TX8 acceptance and rejection reporting pattern described in Chapter 3.
Event Notifications Via Direct	Exchange of event notifications and their supporting metadata.	Provides event-notification guidance used with the applicable event-notification Transaction Definitions.
Update Patient Matching Information Via Direct	Communicating changes to patient-matching information.	Provides reusable guidance for communicating patient-matching information updates under the applicable Transaction Definition.
Send Documents Via Direct	Document exchange and its common packaging and workflow requirements.	Provides reusable guidance for document exchange, applied with this guide’s maternal-health content requirements.
HL7 V2 version 2.5.1	Message structures and event semantics.	Provides the source message model for applicable event-notification workflows.
HL7 CDA R2	Clinical document structure, header, narrative, and entries.	Provides the clinical document architecture for exchanged CDA information objects.
HL7 FHIR R4	Resources and serialization used for metadata, Task, Provenance, and packaging.	Provides the resource model for FHIR metadata, Task, Provenance, and structured payload packaging.
HL7 CDA R2 Consolidated CDA	Reusable clinical document and section templates.	Provides applicable clinical document and section template constraints.
HL7 CDA R2 C-CDA Companion Guide	Companion implementation guidance for C-CDA.	Supports consistent application of applicable C-CDA implementation requirements.
HL7 CDA R2 C-CDA Supplemental Guidance for Pregnancy	Pregnancy-specific clinical document and content guidance.	Provides pregnancy-specific content guidance relevant to the clinical documents exchanged in this use case.
IHE Perinatal Workflow	Perinatal information exchange and workflow guidance.	Provides perinatal exchange and workflow guidance relevant to the maternal-health scenarios.