CH CRL (R4)
0.9.0 - Draft

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Introduction

The purpose of this implementation guide is to specify the exchange format for cancer registration based on the FHIR® standard from HL7®.

On January 1st 2020 the new National Law on Cancer Registration (NLCR) and the according Ordinance on Cancer Registration (OCR) enters into force. In order to achieve data completeness on a national level, institutions involved in diagnosing or treating cancer are required to report cases of cancer to a cancer registry. For further information on the legal framework, please consult the website of the National Agency for Cancer Registration (NACR) or the website of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH, keyword “Krebsregistrierung”, “Enregistrement du cancer”, “Registrazione delle malattie tumorali”).

About this Implementation Guide

Scope

  • Use Case - is used to illustrate the processes related to cancer registration.
  • Cancer Report - represented as a logical model to show the used data set and graphically represented as FHIR document.
  • Profiles - are useful constraints of core FHIR resources and datatypes for cancer registration use.
  • Extensions - are FHIR extensions that are added for cancer registration use.
  • Terminologies - are defined or referenced code systems and value sets for cancer registration.

Download

You can download this implementation guide in NPM format from here.

Change Log

Significant changes to this specification since its initial version.

Case-opening Criteria and MustSupport

In order to be able to report a case to the cancer registry, so-called case-opening criteria are required. These criteria are represented in the FHIR implementation guide with the mustSupport flag set to true. The case-opening criteria include the following personal data on the patient and the date of the cancer report:

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