The EHDI Profile describes the content needed to create a hearing plan of care for a newborn. The HPoC document supports communication and care planning with providers who are a part of the newborn’s care team. It helps to standardize care coordination for infants with suspected hearing loss. It also provides interoperability between clinical EMR systems and EHDI systems for increased efficiency and better data quality.

The EHDI Profile also specifies the message content needed to constrain a message for transmitting device observations from hearing screening devices. The message is used to automate population of hearing screening results in the HPoC document.

The EHDI Profile also specifies the data element mapping needed to populate a form designed to capture structured data for hearing screening results and risk indicators. The form is used to manually capture hearing screening results and risk indicators when that data in not available for automated population.