health concern

health record extract that includes all health record components associated with a health thread for a specific concern

Note 1 to entry: A concern is gathered information to support continuity of care for a subject of care A health thread can include care activities, health conditions, care activity planning, activity management, evaluations and assessments. Thereby, all information needed for continuity of care for an individual subject of care can be covered by a health concern

Note 2 to entry: Health concerns can be constructed to support continuity of care for care processes, clinical processes and accumulations/associations of clinical processes. This means that concerns can relate to episodes of care contacts, chronic disease management, multiple chronic disease management, etc.

Note 3 to entry: Health concerns can be represented and labelled in EHR as extracts or components.

Note 4 to entry: Health concern is closely related to the “concern tracking” based on HL7 standards.