IHE Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Framework Supplement – Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI)

This document describes the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Profile, which sets out the content needed to create a hearing plan of care (HPoC) for a newborn.

The EHDI Profile specifies a HPoC document that supports communication and care planning with providers who are a part of the newborn’s care team. Information shared in the HPoC document helps to standardise care coordination for infants with suspected hearing loss.

Main sections:

· EHDI actors, transactions and content modules

· Actor options and required actor groupings

· Overview

· Use case #1: Share HPoC

· Use case #2: Collect screening results then share HPoC

· Use case #3: RFD for newborn and hearing screening result data capture and HPoC report

· Use case #4: Automated hearing screening result data capture and RFD for newborn and HPoC export

· QRPH transactions

· Content modules

· National extensions