Sibiya, Mhlupheki GSibiya, Mhlupheki GTolmay, James PBotha, AdeleHerselman, Martha ERousseau, P2025-07-212025-07-212024-11978-0-7988-5670-60-7988-5670-Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/14297The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise advocates for integrating distributed and heterogeneous health information systems. This is achieved by developing standards specifying protocols for the integrated systems to communicate as profiles. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) through its Information Technology Infrastructure Technical Framework Volume 2b Transaction B provides a Patient Identification Segment, which allows a patient's demographic details to be exchanged among the information systems within a Health Information Exchange ecosystem. In South Africa, however, healthcare services are extended to communities through Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) who visit households. Therefore, there is a need to manage households similarly to patients in a Health Information Exchange (HIE) system. The IHE profiles currently do not have explicit profiles in their profiles catalogue that can be utilised to manage households in HIE systems. As opposed to patients being treated as subjects of care, community healthcare workers treat households as subjects of care. The COVID-19 pandemic and other epidemics highlighted the importance of associating information inside health systems with corresponding household information. This would assist health workers to efficiently conduct contact tracing to minimise the spread of contractable diseases. In this chapter, we present a format that can be used to represent household information in a standard that follows the Health Level Seven (HL7) standard. We also present an implementation of an Enterprise Master Household Index equivalent to an Enterprise Master Patient Index that utilises our proposed profile. In this chapter, a further evaluation of the management of household of care following a FHIR standard will be provided.FulltextenCOVID-19Health Information SystemsIntegrating the Healthcare EnterpriseHealth Information ExchangeHIEBook Chaptern/a