| Submitted By: Asha G Immanuelle
/ Center For Black Women's Wellness
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| Data Element Information |
| Rationale for Separate Consideration |
Existing clinical notes do not specify maternal specific SDOH data that need to be exchanged to support safe and effective clinical care. Maternal specific SDOH data include
Access to care;
Education
Income
Food stability
Housing
Neighborhood characteristics
Safety
Transportation security
Violence/abuse preventions
ETOH
Smoking
Substance use disorder assessment and treatment
Drug abuse prevention and treatment
Living arrangement
Social support involvement
Baby father involvement
Maternal specific social service referrals and interventions
Work information
Maternal related social risk factors
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| Use Case Description(s) |
| Use Case Description |
According to the 2021 Aspen Health Strategy Group report on “Reversing the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis”, 700 women die each year as the result of pregnancy or delivery complications, and 50,000 more face short-term or long-term health consequences because of pregnancy or labor. The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world (17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) according to The Commonwealth Fund. While rates of maternal mortality have been decreasing in other countries, they have been rising in the United States since 1987. Maternal health data is not uniformly standardized, and data exchange is not consistent across many settings, which impedes care and research on maternal morbidity, longitudinal maternal care, and associated impacts to infant and infant health.
The United States Congress S.796 - Protecting Moms Who Served Act of 2021 includes support by the Department of Veterans Affairs for Maternity Care Coordination by carrying out the maternity care coordination program described in the Veterans Health Administration Directive 1330.03. The Veterans Health Administration Directive includes required coordination of maternity care which include provision of care across settings.
Maternal health data is captured in systems at the point of care. However, the data and the methods of exchange across systems is inconsistent. For example, data such as the social history and social interventions, planned services information, etc. are captured in the Maternal Social Determinant of Health note. Providing the ability to share the Maternal Social Determinant of Health note with all levels of care for use during maternal care provision, will assist in assuring that the mother receives safe, effective and supportive care. Therefore,
including the Maternal Social Determinant of Health note as a data element in USCDI V3 will promote support for improved care delivery.
The Maternal Social Determinant of Health note contains the necessary data elements required to be exchanged in support of care coordination.
The following use cases demonstrate the exchange of information needed to support maternal care coordination and care provision.
Personal access and control over perinatal information
Frequency: Maintained and used Constantly by the person
Personal Health data owned by the person and shared with perinatal providers that interact with the pregnant person throughout their pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and newborn care.
The Person has the ability to share the following perinatal information as part their longitudinal record with providers with consent:
encounter data, labs, vital signs, birth directives and birth plans
SDOH assessments or screenings and associated interventions
Self Reported biometrics
Activities of daily living
This concept has been described by the 2006 Independent Health Record Bank Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/5559?s=1&r=5
Outpatient Care
Frequency: Each Outpatient encounter
The first prenatal visit taking place in the first trimester is vitally important
Initial assessments, lab and documentation take place at this event
The person’s preferences, cultural, social and family support are considered
Referral for routine or high-risk prenatal care
Performance of Preventative Care encounters whenever there is confirmation of pregnancy.
Completion of up to date relevant screenings including social screenings.
Psychosocial-risk assessment to identify the presence of a broad range of social, economic, psychological, and emotional problems. Screening includes but is not limited to: an assessment of barriers to care, unstable housing, communication barriers, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, depression or other psychiatric illness, employment or financial status, safety, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, and stress.
Performance of appropriate referrals based on screening results.
Ensuring effective coordination of care between varying care settings and care providers and specialists such as endocrinology, cardiology, rheumatology, neurology, gynecology, mental health, social services, etc.
The maternal patient is an active participant and is included as a key component of care provision use cases.
Inpatient Care
Frequency: Each Inpatient encounter
Required inpatient medical, surgical, psychiatric, or residential care services. Care must be coordinated with the patient’s care providers and specialists (such as endocrinology, cardiology, rheumatology, neurology, gynecology, mental health, social services, etc.).
Maternal patients need to be evaluated and referred or transferred from one inpatient setting to another based on consideration of the following factors: the stage of pregnancy, the patient’s health status, and the local resources available and needed to meet all of the patient’s medical and social needs.
The maternal patient is an active participant and is included as a key component of care provision use cases.
Birthing Care
Frequency: Each birthing encounter
Maternal patients need to be evaluated and referred for birthing care. Birthing settings can include birthing centers, home settings or hospital settings. The following need to be considered: the stage of pregnancy, the patient’s health status, and the local resources available and needed to meet all of the patient’s medical and social needs.
The maternal patient is an active participant and is included as a key component of care provision use cases.
Obstetrical Emergencies
Frequency: Each emergency and/or urgent care encounter
The management of patients with obstetrical emergencies is normally directed toward the rapid evaluation, stabilization, and transfer to the nearest qualified facility. Mechanisms or processes need to be in place to initially triage obstetrics emergencies in the event this is necessary. It is imperative that the patient health information is available when the following occur:
Performance of timely (i.e., stat or point of care) testing to diagnose pregnancy is needed when necessary.
Timely access to diagnostic services, especially if this impacts the triaging of the patient’s care.
Pregnancy information must be provided when seeking emergency care at the closest Emergency Department, Urgent Care Center or at the hospital the patient will be using for delivery.
When a patient presents with a spontaneous abortion, the specialty provider may deem it medically necessary to provide care in the form of a procedure (i.e., dilation and curettage) or through medical management consistent with standard of care.
Pregnancy information must be provided when seeking medically necessary procedures for the management of spontaneous abortion.
Patients with complications such as preeclampsia or severe hypertension may be seen outside of routine visits. Information from these visits should be made available if a referral to a specialist is needed. The information should also be available when the patient returns to their primary care provider or any other provider caring for existing chronic conditions.
The maternal patient is an active participant and is included as a key component of care provision use cases.
Pregnancy Care Provision
Frequency: Each care provision encounter
Regular encounters with the patient’s care team is required. The maternal patient care team is inclusive of team members or organizations that provide social services.
The maternal patient is an active participant and is included as a key component of care provision use cases.
Postpartum Care Follow-up
Frequency: Each postpartum encounter
Postpartum visit with the patient’s maternity care provider at approximately 6-8 weeks following delivery (or earlier if recommended by that provider).
Follow-up with the patient’s routine care provider (e.g., PCP and other routine care providers including social services providers and organizations) after postpartum visit within 3 months (or earlier if comorbid conditions, e.g.,cardiovascular disease, Human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, mental health condition, etc.).
The maternal patient is an active participant and is included as a key component of care provision use cases.
Travel Use Case
Frequency: Each travel incidence that includes encounters with the health care system.
It is not uncommon for expecting mothers to travel. If acute clinical conditions arise, the mother may seek treatment at a care setting remote from her normal place of care. A summary of information such as the Maternal Social Determinant of Health Note should be available to the new care team for the provision of safe and effective care. Additionally, A summary of the care provided by the remote provider should be available to the mother’s primary obstetrical provider for continuation and follow up care.
Community Care Services Use Case
Frequency: Each incidence where the barriers to care are identified and mitigated.
Community Clinical Integration (CCI) involves creating an infrastructure for community collaboration to improve perinatal outcomes. The infrastructure is used to address barriers to care such as antepartum or postpartum care by working collaboratively with community partners (doulas, community-based organizations, community health workers, home visitation programs, etc.). The majority of preventable maternal morbidity/mortality occurs in community settings. Medical care, dental care, behavioral health care, substance use disorder care, material support, social support are all key components of whole-person care. High-value care activities should be coordinated across multiple sectors to ensure smooth transitions and handoffs among care team partners in order to share resources and accountability. The Maternal Social Determinant of Health Note can be used to share information in support of the maternal-person CCI needs. |
| Estimate the breadth of applicability of the use case(s) for this data element
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Maternal health data pertains to all maternal health patients, all providers providing care for maternal health patients and all requesters utilizing maternal health data to support applicable use cases such as research, public health and/or quality reporting.
Anticipated stakeholder examples are:
Patients
Newborns
Mothers
Providers
OB GYN
Birthing Centers
Doulas
Midwives
Community Health centers
Community Health workers
Fertility Clinics
Public Health
Insurance Providers
Military Health System
Veterans Administration
Home Visitation Programs
Dentists
This list is not exclusive to the stakeholders that will capture, access or use this data element.
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| Use Case Description |
Maternal Research Use Case
Supports mapping maternal data across health records from specialty care and linking mother and child data harmonized across a broad set of use cases. This supports researchers in identifying root causes of maternal mortality and pediatric developmental problems, including SDOH such as limited income, poor nutrition, lack of medical coverage, etc. The goal is to provide standardization of data capture for comparative analysis over time to improve health outcomes and to define a framework for studying additional research populations in the future.
Quality Improvement Use Case
The Quality Improvement Ecosystem begins with information such as maternal care provision needs, information to support maternal care coordination, etc. Such information indicates existing status and knowledge about a given clinical topic. Stakeholders, such as professional societies, public health agencies, and governmental bodies, publish such information to assure awareness among consumers, healthcare practitioners, and healthcare organizations about what is known and suggested methods for managing the clinical topic as clinical guidelines. These clinical guidelines are translated into clinical decision support (CDS) artifacts to incorporate relevant, evidence based, and patient-specific clinical recommendations and actions directly within clinical workflow. To close the loop and enable continuous improvement, the results of such measurement analytics must be reported for aggregate review. “Reporting” serves the purpose of evaluating clinical performance and outcomes, whether it be internally for health care organizations, or for third parties such as public health or for payers.
Public Health Reporting
An expectant mother’s pregnancy attributes are crucial for providing the best possible prenatal care. As well, after delivery, Public Health needs to capture this data as part of birth certification, fetal death reporting and birth defect reporting. In particular, birth certification forms the basis of the patient census required by a large number of other Public Health programs including newborn screening, birth defect reporting and immunization registries making it critical that birth certification is as automated, timely and accurate as possible.
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| Estimate the breadth of applicability of the use case(s) for this data element
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Maternal health data pertains to all maternal health patients, all providers providing care for maternal health patients and all requesters utilizing maternal health data to support applicable use cases such as public health and/or quality reporting.
Anticipated stakeholder examples are:
Patients
Newborns
Mothers
Providers
OB GYN
Birthing Centers
Doulas
Midwives
Community Health centers
Community Health workers
Fertility Clinics
Public Health
Insurance Providers
Military Health System
Veterans Administration
Home Visitation Programs
Dentists
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| Healthcare Aims |
- Improving patient experience of care (quality and/or satisfaction)
- Improving the health of populations
- Reducing the cost of care
- Improving provider experience of care
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| Maturity of Use and Technical Specifications for Data Element |
| Applicable Standard(s) |
SNOMED CT
183425000 Social care
61072005 Social factor
315042007 Social support
161152002 Social problem
310134006 Social services
406551008 Social assessment
405076007 Social support status
108329005 Social context finding
LOINC
52234-2 Medical social services treatment plan, Assessment information Set
52218-5 Medical social services treatment plan, Referral information Set
29762-2 Social history Narrative
91642-9 Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey panel
91663-5 Social support index
ICD10
Z60.9 Problem related to social environment, unspecified
Z60.8 Other problems related to social environment
ICD9 CM
Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium
ICD10CM, SNOMEDCT
Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium
Pregnancy
SNOMED CT: https://www.snomed.org/ LOINC: https://loinc.org/ ICD10: https://www.icd10data.com/
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| Additional Specifications |
SDOH Clinical Care IG - https://hl7.org/fhir/us/sdoh-clinicalcare/
Longitudinal Maternal & Infant Health Information for Research IG - https://hl7.org/fhir/us/mihr/2022may/index.html
WHO Antenatal Care Guideline Implementation Guide - https://build.fhir.org/ig/WorldHealthOrganization/smart-anc/guidance.html
Antepartum Summary (APS) - https://www.ihe.net/Technical_Framework/upload/IHE_PCC_Suppl_AntepartumProfiles_Rev1-2_TI_2011-09-09.pdf
Family Planning Version 2 (FPv2) - https://www.ihe.net/uploadedFiles/Documents/QRPH/IHE_QRPH_Suppl_FPv2.pdf
Healthy Weight (HW) - https://www.ihe.net/uploadedFiles/Documents/QRPH/IHE_QRPH_Suppl_HW.pdf
C-CDA R2.1 Supplemental Templates for Pregnancy Status - HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: C-CDA R2.1 Supplemental Templates for Pregnancy Status, Release 1 - US Realm
Pregnancy Outcome List - https://nhsconnect.github.io/FHIR-Maternity-Record/explore_pregnancy_outcome.html
NIH - https://www.nationalacademies.org/documents/embed/link/LF2255DA3DD1C41C0A42D3BEF0989ACAECE3053A6A9B/file/DD9D34E3DC420E58DE0011417F4073B95E45E1C3F1FC
HL7 CHOICE Project - Pregnancy History Model
https://confluence.hl7.org/x/ptM7Bg |
| Current Use |
This data element has been used at scale between multiple different production environments to support the majority of anticipated stakeholders |
| Supporting Artifacts |
Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA)-
Representing Patient Pregnancy Status
Social, Psychological, and Behavioral Data
Tobacco Use
Work Information
Blue Cross BLue Shield Pregnancy Risk assessment form - https://about.bcbstx.com/provider/pdf/3rd_trimester.pdf
UnitedHealthcare Pregnancy Risk assessment form - https://www.uhcprovider.com/content/dam/provider/docs/public/commplan/multi/UHC-UHCCP-Obstetrics-Pregnancy-Risk-Assessment-Form.pdf
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| Extent of exchange
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5 or more. This data element has been tested at scale between multiple different production environments to support the majority of anticipated stakeholders. |
| Supporting Artifacts |
The information defined in a Maternal Social Determinants of Health Note is routinely collected at scale.
Supporting Link
Racial and ethnic disparities in obstetric and gynecologic care and role of implicit biases
The patient’s culture and effective communication
Society guideline links: Diversity, inclusivity, and racism in medicine
Overview of maternal mortality
Approaches to reduction of maternal mortality in resource-limited settings
A National Collaborative to Advance Interoperable Social Determinants of Health Data
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| Potential Challenges |
| Restrictions on Standardization (e.g. proprietary code) |
None |
| Restrictions on Use (e.g. licensing, user fees) |
None |
| Privacy and Security Concerns |
Pregnancy-related data, particularly pregnancy outcome, is sensitive and private information. It will be important to safeguard identifying information of individuals using current HIPAA policies and other relevant standards. Privacy and security should include statutes, regulations, and guiding principles to protect patient specific maternal health data because it is sensitive and private information. Privacy and security considerations associated with any health-related data should take appropriate action to mitigate the risk of compromise. The use of the following is highly encouraged: Security and Implementation Guidance; Security/Privacy Related Technologies Including Explicit Consent and Security Labels; Exchange Security; Additionally Protected Information.
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| Estimate of Overall Burden |
These data elements are straightforward in nature and should not present a large burden to implement provided the EHR system is capturing the data as a component of care provision.
This Maternal Social Determinants of Health Note pertains to maternal information. It is essential to capture this information across care settings when a person is in any maternal related stage. It should not be a considerable burden to implement this data element because it has minimal implementation lift and will have an enormous benefit for care provision and improving health outcomes for maternal patients.
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| Other Implementation Challenges |
n/a |
ONC Evaluation Details
Each submitted Data Element has been evaluated based on the following 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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Criterion #1
Maturity - Current Standards |
Level 2
- Data element is represented by a terminology standard or SDO-balloted technical specification or implementation guide.
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Criterion #2
Maturity - Current Use
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Level 2
- Data element is captured, stored, or accessed in multiple production EHRs or other HIT modules from more than one developer.
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Criterion #3
Maturity - Current Exchange |
Level 2
- Data element is electronically exchanged between more than two production EHRs or other HIT modules of different developers using available interoperability standards.
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Criterion #4
Use Case(s) - Breadth of Applicability |
Level 0
- Use cases apply to a limited number of care settings or specialties, or data element represents a specialization of other, more general data elements.
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| Evaluation Comment |
This data element represents a component of an existing USCDI data element History and Physical in the Clinical Notes data class. |
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