Email UpdatesThe Veterans Health Administration seeks to standardize eye care data output from routine clinical documentation in support of quality clinical care delivery, performance improvement, interoperability across health care platforms, and clinical research activities. Prototype work has been done in both the DoD/VA Vision Center of Excellence (Optimal Vision Care Prototype) and the VA (Eye Care SmartForm) to define eye care documentation requirements and to promote standardized data output. While not yet implemented in the VA, this draft documentation template content goes a step farther than earlier projects by conforming to HL7 standards for clinical decision support, furthering the aim of an easily shareable tool with shareable data output from routine clinical documentation.
Artifact Creation and Usage
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Structured code that is interpretable by a computer (includes data elements, value sets, logic)
- Target User
- Provider in an Ophthalmology or Optometry clinic
- Patient Age Group
- Adult patients
- Workflow Setting
- Eye Care
- Clinical Venue
- Outpatient
THE CLINICAL CONTENT IN THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT DIRECTLY SUITABLE FOR CLINICAL USE AS PRESENTED SINCE IT HAS NOT BEEN TESTED IN A CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT. IT HAS NEVER BEEN PILOTED, NEVER 100% REPRESENTS THE INTENT OF THE CLINICAL SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS, AND MAY CAUSE HARM IF APPLIED AS-IS. THIS WORK IS MADE AVAILABLE WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER, AND WITHOUT CLAIMS, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- Derived From
- Eye Care Clinical Content White Paper
- Associated Resource
- Eye Care Documentation Template Conceptual Structure Document
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- Eye Care Documentation Template KNART Validation Report
- Associated Resource
- Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) AMD Category definitions in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Preferred Practice Patterns
- Associated Resource
- ICD-10 Glaucoma Staging Definitions
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- American Academy of Ophthalmology EyeWiki Gonioscopy Classification
See attached resource files for additional details. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Informatics and Information Governance, Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Content and Health Level 7 (HL7)-Compliant Knowledge Artifacts (KNARTs) Eye Care Clinical Content White Paper, VA118-16-D-1008, Task Order VA-118-16-F-1008-0007, June, 2018.
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- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Optimal Vision Care Prototype (OVCP) Functional Requirements. Updated April 2015.