Occupational Data for Health (ODH)

ODH is an informatics framework for health IT systems to support individual patient care, population health, and public health.

• The ODH information model describes the ODH data elements, how the elements are related to one another as “topics,” and how the topics are related to a person. HCOs select the topics and data that are important to them.
• Value sets are available for most ODH data elements; for downloadable files, see the ODH Hot Topics tab. Occupation and industry concepts are supported by large value sets that enable keyword searches using common terms.
• A Guide to Collection of Occupational Data for Health (ODH): Tips for Health IT Developers (“The ODH Collection Guide”) provides valuable suggestions for collecting the ODH data elements, particularly occupation and industry values.
• The HL7®  Work and Health Functional Profile (WHFP) provides recommendations for functionality to manage ODH data in EHRs.
• ODH interoperability templates enable adding ODH topics into broader implementation guides (HL7 CDA, IHE CDA, FHIR, V2). The Past or Present Job and Usual Work templates are included in the CDA eICR R3.1 standard.

For additional information, see our Challenge FAQs and the ODH homepage.