Published Nutrition Standards

Standards published to support the nutrition care process:

• HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Nutrition Care, Release 3: STU (standard for trial use) published in December 2022: Provides the business use case for nutrition and shows workflow activity diagrams, information models with the flow of data, and other details of nutrition care. While previous version focused only on diet orders of inpatients, this version includes the entire nutrition care process and includes outpatient examples as well.
• HL7 EHR-System Electronic Nutrition Care Process Record System (ENCPRS) Functional Profile, Release 2: Details the functions that should be contained in an electronic health records (EHR) to support the nutrition care process (NCP) and the terms from the nutrition care process terminology (NCPT) promoting information interoperability between nutrition, food systems, and other areas of healthcare.
• United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI): nationwide Standardized data set for interoperable health information exchange. It consists of nutrition related elements such as Nutrition Order and Nutrition Status.