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Remote Anamnesis

Official URL: http://remote-anamnesis.na.icar.cnr/ImplementationGuide/remoteanamnesis				Version: 0.1.0
Active as of 2025-08-08				Computable Name: RemoteAnamnesis

Scope

This Implementation Guide aims to define, according to the specifications of the HL7 FHIR R4 standard, a structured set of profiles, extensions, and terminology artifacts intended to support the remote management of patient anamnesis. The Implementation Guide serves as a technical-operational reference for the adoption of interoperable solutions in the collection, representation, and transmission of anamnesis data, ensuring compliance with national and international standards, and in particular with the FSE 2.0 model.

Contesto

The growing use of telemedicine and the development of digital health care platforms have created the need for solutions that ensure the structured, secure, and interoperable collection of patients’ clinical information.

In this context, anamnesis (medical history) is essential for effective clinical evaluation, particularly when direct interaction between patients and physicians is limited, as in tele-visits, teleconsultations, and remote monitoring. The ability to conduct remote consultations makes adopting digital tools that can collect, represent, and transmit clinical data in a structured way that complies with national and international interoperability standards essential.

This guide focuses on the breast cancer care scenario specifically, where accurate anamnesis collection plays a critical role in diagnosis, treatment planning, and ongoing monitoring. Because breast cancer patients often require multidisciplinary management and frequent follow-ups, remote anamnesis collection is not only convenient, it is also necessary to maintain continuity of care and patient safety.

This work describes the adoption of a standards-based methodological approach to designing an interoperable system for remote anamnesis collection. The system is designed to integrate seamlessly with tele-visit platforms, aligning with the technical specifications of the Electronic Health Record (Fascicolo Sanitario Elettronico, FSE) and HL7 guidelines. This facilitates interoperability and data consistency across healthcare systems.

Dependence

Package hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.3.0-ballot-tc1 This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Sun, Aug 3, 2025 06:28+1000+10:00)

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Cross-Version Analysis

This is an R4 IG. None of the features it uses are changed in R4B, so it can be used as is with R4B} systems. Packages for both R4 (remoteanamnesis.r4) and R4B (remoteanamnesis.r4b) are available.

Implementation Guide

This is a Beta Implementation Guide for collecting patient medical history data.

Authors and contributors

Role	Name	Organization	e-mail
Author	Teresa Conte	ICAR-CNR	teresa.conte@icar.cnr.it
	Mario Sicuranza	ICAR-CNR	mario.sicuranza@icar.cnr.it
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  • LOINC: Consent_Patient
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  • SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®): AllergyIntolerance/allergyintolerance-penicillin, Condition/Condition-Patient-001... Show 17 more, Condition/Condition-Patient-002, Consent_Patient, DOSA, DOSDIR, DiagnosticReport/DiagnosticReport-Patient-001, FamilyMemberHistory/FamilyMemberHistory-Patient-001, LesionSideVS, Medication/Medication-Patient-001, Medication/Medication-Patient-002, MedicationStatement/Medication-Statement-Patient-001, MedicationStatement/Medication-Statement-patient-002, Medication_Patient, Medication_Statement_Patient, Observation/Observation-Patient-Fever-001, Observation/Observation-Patient-HighBloodPressure-001, Observation/Observation-Patient-Pain-001 and Observation_Axis
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  • AllergyIntolerance Clinical Status Codes: AllergyIntolerance/allergyintolerance-penicillin
  • Condition Clinical Status Codes: Condition/Condition-Patient-001 and Condition/Condition-Patient-002
  • Consent Category Codes: Consent_Patient
  • Consent Scope Codes: Consent_Patient
  • Observation Category Codes: OBSVS, Observation/Observation-Patient-Fever-001... Show 7 more, Observation/Observation-Patient-HighBloodPressure-001, Observation/Observation-Patient-Pain-001, Observation_Axis, Observation_Circularity, Observation_OrientationAngle, Observation_Patient and Observation_PerimeterRegularity
  • Practitioner role: Consent_Patient
  • ActReason: Consent_Patient
  • RoleCode: FamilyMemberHistory/FamilyMemberHistory-Patient-001
  • TimingEvent: Medication_Statement_Patient
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  • RxNorm: AllergyIntolerance/allergyintolerance-penicillin