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Concepts

Concepts

Key concepts used in the WHO Clinical Care in Crisis for CHE is described here. Additional terms are defined in the Glossary and List of Abbrevations in the WHO Digital Adaptation Kit: SMART Guidelines for CHE.

Term	Description
Implementation Guide	A set of rules of how a particular interoperability or standards problem is solved though the use of FHIR resources. This implementation guide is based on the WHO guidance, as represented in the Digital Adaptation Kit (DAK): SMART Guidelines for Critical Care in Crisis, to support the adaptation of open standards for interoperability.
Digital Adaptation Kit	Digital adaptation kits are part of the SMART guidelines initiative in include data and health content consistent with the WHO recommendations, generally applicable to digital systems. They are software neutral, operational and structured documentation based on WHO clinica, helath system and data use recommendations to systematically and transparently inform the design of digital systems.
Functional Requirements	Functional requirements defines functions of a system or its components, where a function is described as a summery of behaviour between inputs and outputs.
Non functional requirements	Non-functional requirements are requirements that specifies criteria that can be used to judge the operation of a system, rather than specific behaviours in contrast to the functional requirements.
Clinical Quality Language	Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a high-level domain-specific language focused on clinical quality and targeted at measures and decision support artifact authors.
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources	Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. It provides the syntactic interoperability in health information exchange.
Data Dictionary	A centralized repository of information about data elements that contain their definitions, relationships, origins, usage and type of data. The data dictionary is provided as a spreadsheet in the digital adaptation kit (DAK).
Data Element	A unit of data that has a specific and precise meaning.
Indicator	Summary measures that capture relevant information on different attributes and dimensions of health status and performance of a health system.
Clinical Practice Guidelines	Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) provides a means of creating a computable representation of narrative clinical guideline that is faithful to guideline intent and supports the derivation of downstream capabilities such as cognitive and decsion support, quality measures, case reporting and documentation templates that direct clinical documentation in support determining guideline compliance.

Abbrevations

The following table describes the abbrivations used throughout this implementation guide.

Term	Description
CDS	Clinical Decision Support
CQL	Clinical Quality Language
FHIR	Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
DAK	Digital Adaptation Kit
IG	Implementation Guide
SMART	Standard-based, Machine readable,
HL7	Health Level Seven International
MOH	Ministry of Health
WHO	World Health Organization