Continuity of Care Record
Continuity of Care Record (CCR) is a health record standard specification developed jointly by ASTM International, the Massachusetts Medical Society[1] (MMS), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Academy of Pediatrics[2] (AAP), and other health informatics vendors.
The CCR was generated by health care practitioners based on their views of the data they may want to share in any given situation. The CCR document is used to allow timely and focused transmission of information to other health professionals involved in the patient's care. The CCR aims to increase the role of the patient in managing their health and reduce error while improving continuity of patient care. The CCR standard is a patient health summary standard. It is a way to create flexible documents that contain the most relevant and timely core health information about a patient, and to send these electronically from one caregiver to another. The CCR's intent is also to create a standard of health information transportability when a patient is transferred or referred, or is seen by another healthcare professional.
The CCR is a unique development effort via a syndicate of the following sponsors:
The CCR data set contains a summary of the patient’s health status including problems, medications, allergies, and basic information about health insurance, care documentation, and the patient’s care plan. These represent a "snapshot" of a patient's health data that can be useful or possibly lifesaving, if available at the time of clinical encounter. The ASTM CCR standard's purpose is to permit easy creation by a physician using an electronic health record (EHR) system at the end of an encounter. More specifically within the CCR, there are mandated core elements in 6 sections.
These 6 sections are:
Because it is expressed in the standard data interchange language known as XML, a CCR can potentially be created, read, and interpreted by any EHR or EMR software application. A CCR can also be exported to other formats, such as PDF or Office Open XML (Microsoft Word 2007 format).
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