name: Temple Health Vocabulary
description: >-
  Operational and capability vocabulary for the Temple University Health
  System enterprise: the academic hospital system (Temple Health) and its
  affiliates (Temple University Hospital campuses, Fox Chase Cancer Center,
  Temple Health Chestnut Hill Hospital, Temple Women & Families Hospital)
  with the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. Anchored on HL7 FHIR R4, US Core,
  SMART App Launch, and the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final
  Rule.
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'

domains:
- name: Organizations
  terms:
  - term: Temple Health
    description: Common brand name for the Temple University Health System.
  - term: Temple University Health System
    description: Philadelphia-based academic health system anchored at Temple University Hospital.
  - term: Temple University Hospital (TUH)
    description: Flagship academic medical center; FHIR endpoint host.
  - term: Temple University Hospital — Jeanes Campus
    description: Northeast Philadelphia community hospital campus.
  - term: Temple University Hospital — Episcopal Campus
    description: Kensington-area campus focused on behavioral health and emergency services.
  - term: Temple University Hospital — Northeastern Campus
    description: Outpatient and inpatient services in Northeast Philadelphia.
  - term: Temple Women & Families Hospital
    description: Women, maternity, and family-care hospital in the system.
  - term: Temple Health — Chestnut Hill Hospital
    description: Community hospital in northwest Philadelphia.
  - term: Fox Chase Cancer Center
    description: NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center within Temple Health.
  - term: Temple Faculty Physicians
    description: Multispecialty group practice of Lewis Katz School of Medicine faculty.
  - term: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
    description: Academic medical school affiliated with Temple Health.
  - term: Temple University
    description: Parent university of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.
  - term: myTempleHealth
    description: Patient-facing Epic MyChart deployment for Temple Health.

- name: Standards and Implementation Guides
  terms:
  - term: HL7 FHIR R4 (4.0.1)
    description: Healthcare data interoperability standard used at epicaccess.templehealth.org.
  - term: HL7 FHIR DSTU2 (1.0.2)
    description: Legacy FHIR baseline still exposed at the Temple Health DSTU2 endpoint.
  - term: US Core 6.1.0
    description: HL7 US Core Implementation Guide for USCDI data classes.
  - term: USCDI
    description: ONC's United States Core Data for Interoperability dataset.
  - term: SMART App Launch
    description: OAuth 2.0-based launch framework for FHIR apps.
  - term: HL7 FHIR Bulk Data Access
    description: Asynchronous group-level export protocol (ndjson).

- name: Regulations
  terms:
  - term: CMS-9115-F
    description: CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule (Patient Access API).
  - term: 21st Century Cures Act
    description: ONC information-blocking rule that mandates patient access to electronic health information via FHIR.
  - term: HIPAA
    description: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy and security rules governing PHI.
  - term: CMS Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule (45 CFR 180)
    description: Requires hospitals to publish machine-readable standard-charges files.

- name: FHIR Resources (R4)
  terms:
  - term: Patient
  - term: Observation
  - term: Condition
  - term: Encounter
  - term: MedicationRequest
  - term: AllergyIntolerance
  - term: DocumentReference
  - term: Procedure
  - term: DiagnosticReport
  - term: Immunization
  - term: CarePlan
  - term: Goal

- name: FHIR Resources (DSTU2)
  terms:
  - term: AllergyIntolerance
  - term: Binary
  - term: CarePlan
  - term: Condition
  - term: Device
  - term: DiagnosticReport
  - term: DocumentReference
  - term: FamilyMemberHistory
  - term: Goal
  - term: Immunization
  - term: Medication
  - term: MedicationOrder
  - term: MedicationStatement
  - term: Observation
  - term: Patient
  - term: Practitioner
  - term: Procedure

- name: Authentication and Endpoints
  terms:
  - term: Temple Health FHIR R4 Base
    value: https://epicaccess.templehealth.org/FhirProxyPrd/api/FHIR/R4
  - term: Temple Health FHIR DSTU2 Base
    value: https://epicaccess.templehealth.org/FhirProxyPrd/api/FHIR/DSTU2/
  - term: Temple Health OAuth 2.0 Authorize
    value: https://epicaccess.templehealth.org/FhirProxyPrd/oauth2/authorize
  - term: Temple Health OAuth 2.0 Token
    value: https://epicaccess.templehealth.org/FhirProxyPrd/oauth2/token
  - term: Temple Health SMART Configuration
    value: https://epicaccess.templehealth.org/FhirProxyPrd/api/FHIR/R4/.well-known/smart-configuration
  - term: myTempleHealth Portal
    value: https://my.templehealth.org/MyChartPRD/Authentication/Login
  - term: Epic Endpoint Directory (R4)
    value: https://open.epic.com/Endpoints/R4
  - term: Epic Endpoint Directory (DSTU2)
    value: https://open.epic.com/Endpoints/DSTU2
  - term: Epic App Registration
    value: https://fhir.epic.com/Developer/Apps

- name: Tags
  terms:
  - term: Academic Medical Center
  - term: Patient Access
  - term: Hospital System
  - term: Healthcare
  - term: Interoperability
  - term: Epic
  - term: MyChart
  - term: Price Transparency
  - term: NCI-Designated Cancer Center