| Submitted By: Grace Cordovano / Enlightening Results | |
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| Data Element Information | |
| Use Case Description(s) | |
| Use Case Description | Religious and spiritual preferences can help to guide holistic care, especially in the in-patient, palliative care, and end-of-life care settings. Religious and spiritual preferences can provide insights on how to best support patients and their families in regards to health literacy and understanding disease progression, understanding medication adherence, and best-supporting patients with additional tools, technology, and information they need in a culturally respectful manner to make informed decisions about care. |
| Estimated number of stakeholders capturing, accessing using or exchanging | Unknown |
| Healthcare Aims |
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| Maturity of Use and Technical Specifications for Data Element | |
| Applicable Standard(s) | N/A |
| Additional Specifications | N/A |
| Current Use | Not currently captured or accessed with an organization |
| Number of organizations/individuals with which this data element has been electronically exchanged | N/A |
| Potential Challenges | |
| Restrictions on Standardization (e.g. proprietary code) | Unknown |
| Restrictions on Use (e.g. licensing, user fees) | Unknown |
| Privacy and Security Concerns | Unknown |
| Estimate of Overall Burden | Unknown |
| ONC Evaluation Details Each submitted Data Element has been evaluated based on the following 4 criteria. The overall Level classification is a composite of the maturity based on these individual criteria. This information can be used to identify areas that require additional work to raise the overall classification level and consideration for inclusion in future versions of USCDI |
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| Maturity – Standards/Technical Specifications | Comment Level - May be represented by a vocabulary standard or an element of a published technical specification. |
| Maturity - Current Use | Comment Level - Used in limited test environments or pilots |
| Maturity - Current Exchange | Comment Level - Demonstrates limited exchange with external organizations, on same or different EHR/HIT systems |
| Breadth of Applicability - # Stakeholders Impacted | Level 1 - Used by many, but not most, patients, providers or events requiring its use |
| Evaluation Comment | Assessed as a comment due to limited support for use case at this time. |
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