HL7 Standards - Section 4: Rules and References
Technical specifications, programming structures and guidelines for software and standards development.Click a Standard to link to more detail.
Name | Description | Type |
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| Arden Syntax V2.7ARDEN | The HL7 International Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Modules (MLMs) is an ANSI-approved American National Standard language for encoding medical knowledge and representing and sharing that knowledge among personnel, information syste... |
Normative |
| Arden Syntax v2.8 (Health Level Seven Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems, Version 2.8)Arden Syntax V2.8,ARDEN | The HL7 International Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems is an ANSI-approved American National Standard language for encoding procedural medical knowledge and representing and sharing that knowledge among personnel, information syste... |
Normative |
| Arden Syntax v2.9 (Health Level Seven Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems, Version 2.9)Arden Syntax V2.9,ARDEN | The Arden Syntax is a formalism for representing procedural clinical knowledge in order to facilitate the sharing of computerized health knowledge bases among personnel, information systems and institutions. Knowledge bases... |
Normative |
| HL7 Business Architecture Model (BAM), Release 1HL7 Business Architecture Model (BAM) Phase 1: Product Planning,BAM,Business Architecture Model, | The purpose of the HL7 Business Architecture Model document (BAM) and associated diagrams is to collectively describe a 'goal state' business architecture model (BAM) for HL7 with an init... |
Informative |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Patient-Friendly Language for Consumer User Interfaces, Release 1"HL7 CDA® R2 IG: Patient-Friendly Consent Directives, Release 1",Patient Friendly Language for Security and Privacy, PFL, | The Patient Friendly Language for Consumer User Interfaces IG is sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and is a result of a focused effort to provide a plain language healthcare vocabulary for patient comprehension. This ... |
Informative |
| HL7 Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework (cMHAFF), Release 1"HL7 MHaFF: Consumer Mobile Health App Functional Framework, R1",cMHAFF | The Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework is an HL7 Standard for Trial Use (STU). The primary goals of the Consumer Mobile Health Functional Framework ( cMHAFF ) are to provide a standard against which a mobile app&r... |
STU |
| HL7 Context Management Specification (CCOW), Version 1.6Reaffirmation of CCOW 1.6,Clinical Context Management Specification (CCOW) Version 1.6,CCOW | This specification has been retired, and is being replaced by HL7 FHIRCast
Aimed at facilitating the integration of applications at the point of use, CCOW Context Management Specification is a sta... |
Normative |
| HL7 Cross Paradigm Specification: Allergy and Intolerance Substance Value Set(s) Definition, Release 1"HL7 Allergy and Intolerance Substance Value Set(s) Definition, Release 1",Common Allergy & Intolerance Substance Value Set | This document describes a value set for use in identifying substances of concern for patients with allergies and intolerances. The list was generated by surveying existing records from large syst... |
Informative |
| HL7 Cross Paradigm Specification: Health Services Reference Architecture (HL7-HSRA), Edition 1"HL7 Specification: Health Service Reference Architecture (HL7-HSRA), R1",,HL7-HIRA | The Health Services Reference Architecture (HSRA) aims to support the design of medium/large scale eHealth architectures based on HL7 services and standards. The HSRA supports the architectural desi... |
STU |
| HL7 Cross-Paradigm Specification: Clinical Quality Language (CQL), Release 1"HL7 V3 Standard: Clinical Quality Expression Lanaguage, R1","Clinical Quality Language",CQL | Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a high-level, domain-specific language focused on clinical quality improvement and targeted at measure and decision support artifact authors and implementers. ... |
Normative |
| HL7 Cross-Paradigm Specification: FHIRPath, Release 1"HL7 Neutral Mapping Notation, Release 1",FHIRPath, FluentPath,FluentPath/CQL | FHIRPath is a path based navigation and extraction language, somewhat like XPath. Operations are expressed in terms of the logical content of hierarchical data models, and support traversal, selection and filtering of data. Its desig... |
Normative |
| HL7 Cross-Paradigm Specification: Representing Negatives, Release 1"HL7 Cross-Paradigm Specification: Clinical Negation Requirements, Release 1",Negation | This document surveys requirements and extant patterns for representing pertinent negatives and other negative semantics, and it analyzes the relative strengths and challenges for these patterns in different use cases. This analy... |
Informative |
| HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Clinical Sequencing, Release 1"HL7 Domain Information Model: Clinical Genomics, Release 1",CG DAM,CG DIM | This document develops a domain analysis model for various use cases in clinical genomics with an emphasis on clinical sequencing. The model describes and outlines a multitude of use cases and scenarios in which clinical sequencing testing is cu... |
Informative |
| HL7 Healthcare Privacy and Security Classification System (HCS), Release 1"HL7 Healthcare Privacy and Security Classification System, R1", HCS | International standard document describing the use of a Healthcare Privacy and Security Classification System (HCS) suitable for automated labeling and segmentation of protected health care info... |
Normative |
| HL7 Implementation Guide: LOINC Document Ontology, Release 1"HL7 IG: LOINC Clinical Document Ontology, R1",LOINC Doc Ontology, LOINC Document Ontology, LOINC Clinical Document Ontology | The purpose for this implementation guide is to define how the LOINC Document Ontology can be implemented within systems as a foundation for powerful archiving, data mining, and information exch... |
DSTU |
| HL7 Informative Document: AI/ML Data Lifecycle, Edition 1 - US Realm"HL7 Guidance: AI Data Lifecycle, Edition 1",AI Data Lifecycle (Phase I: Data Used for Machine Learning Models),,AI Project 11 | The AI Data Lifecycle (Phase I: Data Used for Machine Learning Models), Edition 1, provides an Informative Document to developers to promote the use of standards to improve the trust and quality of interoperable data used in AI models. Stand... |
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| HL7 Informative Document: C-CDA Rubric Criteria, Release 1 - US Realm"HL7 Informative Document: C-CDA Scorecard Rubric, Release 1",C-CDA Scoring Rubric,C-CDA Rubric | This informative implementation guide contains rubric criteria created through an ongoing project in the HL7 Structured Documents Work Group (SDWG), originating in 2016. Throughout 2018 a group of HL7 members created a new set of rubri... |
Informative |
| HL7 Messaging Standard Version 2.9V2.9 | HL7’s Version 2.x (V2) messaging standard is the workhorse of electronic data exchange in the clinical domain and arguably the most widely implemented standard for healthcare in the world. This messaging standard allows the excha... |
Normative |
| HL7 Policy for Introducing New Processes, Release 1"Introducing New Processes to HL7, R1", | This document defines the approval and adoption methodology for non-standards process artifacts; it was developed by Project Services but commissioned by the Technical Steering Committee (TSC). HL7 has a well-defined metho... |
Informative |
| HL7 Service-Aware Interoperability Framework (SAIF): Canonical Definition Specification, Release 2"HL7 Service-Aware Interoperability Framework: Canonical Definition, Release 1","HL7 Service-Aware Interoperability Framework: Canonical Definition Specification, R2",SAIF, SAEAF, SAIF-CD | The Service-Aware Interoperability Framework (SAIF) provides consistency between all artifacts, enables a standardized approach to Enterprise Architecture development and implementation, and a way ... |
Informative, Normative |
| HL7 Specification: Characteristics of a Value Set Definition, Release 1"Reaffirmation of HL7 Specification: Characteristics of a Value Set Definition, R1","HL7 Specification: Characteristics of a Value Set Definition, Release 1",VSD,Value Set Definition | This document describes the data elements that formally define and characterize (describe) how to create an HL7 conformant value set. These include: the metadata used to identify and define a va... |
Normative |
| HL7 Specification: Clinical Quality Common Metadata Conceptual Model, Release 1"HL7 Specification: Clinical Quality Common Metadata, Release 1",Clinical Quality Common Metadata Conceptual Model | The purpose of this specification is to identify a common model that shall be used to derive and implement metadata information in D-MIMs and Logical Models in a consistent manner for any HL7 specification impacting initi... |
Informative |
| HL7 V2 Implementation Guide Quality Criteria, Release 1"V2 Quality Criteria, R1", | This publication defines clear quality criteria for HL7 Version 2 implementation guides. These criteria are applied by the implementation guide authors and the appropriate HL7 committees as HL7 v2 implementation guides move through the stand... |
Informative |
| HL7 Version 2 Conformance Methodology Release 1"V2: Conformance, R1",v2 conformance, message profile | HL7 Version 2 Conformance Methodology explains the procedures and processes for constraining HL7 v2 message specifications, encompassing both message profiles and implementation guides that contain message profi... |
Normative |
| HL7 Version 2 Implementation Guide: Laboratory Value Set Companion Guide, Release 2 - US RealmLOI, LRI | HL7 has developed multiple Implementation Guides (IGs) for the laboratory domain, supporting US Realm requirements. These IGs cover a broad spectrum of interoperability; in order to harmonize vocabulary requirements across the IGs, HL7 O... |
DSTU, STU |