Health data standards

Health Data Standards is a Ruby library designed to generate and consume various healthcare-related data formats, including HITSP C32, QRDA Category I, and QRDA Category III. It plays a crucial role in enabling interoperability and standardized reporting within healthcare systems, particularly for quality measurement and electronic health record (EHR) data exchange.

Key Features

• HITSP C32 Support — Generates and consumes Continuity of Care Documents (CCD) for patient summary exchange.
• QRDA Category I/III Export — Produces Quality Reporting Document Architecture reports for individual patient data and aggregate performance.
• HQMF Document Parsing — Parses Health Quality Measure Format documents to define clinical quality measures.
• NLM ValueSet Handling — Manages standardized medical code sets from the National Library of Medicine.
• Bulk Record Import — Imports QRDA Cat I, Consolidated CDA, and HITSP C32 documents in bulk with error handling.
• MongoDB-Backed Measure Engine — Executes clinical quality measure calculations using MongoDB for data storage and querying.

Philosophy

The project emphasizes robust, standards-compliant data handling for healthcare interoperability, with a focus on supporting real-world quality measurement and reporting workflows through modular, reusable libraries.