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Capabilitystatement-base2.json

Example CapabilityStatement/base2 (JSON)

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Responsible Owner: FHIR Infrastructure Work Group Standards Status : Informative

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Base Capability Statement

{
  "resourceType" : "CapabilityStatement",
  "id" : "base2",
  "text" : {
    "status" : "generated",
    "div" : "<div>!-- Snipped for Brevity --></div>"

    "status" : "extensions",
    "div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p class=\"res-header-id\"><b>Generated Narrative: CapabilityStatement base2</b></p><a name=\"base2\"> </a><a name=\"hcbase2\"> </a><h2 id=\"title\"/><ul><li>Implementation Guide Version: 6.0.0-ballot3 </li><li>FHIR Version: 6.0.0-ballot3 </li><li>Supported Formats: <code>xml</code>, <code>json</code></li><li>Published on: 2025-11-17T19:23:40Z </li><li>Published by: HL7 International / FHIR Infrastructure </li></ul><blockquote class=\"impl-note\"><p><strong>Note to Implementers: FHIR Capabilities</strong></p><p>Any FHIR capability may be 'allowed' by the system unless explicitly marked as 'SHALL NOT'. A few items are marked as MAY in the Implementation Guide to highlight their potential relevance to the use case.</p></blockquote><h2 id=\"rest\">FHIR RESTful Capabilities</h2><div class=\"panel panel-default\"><div class=\"panel-heading\"><h3 id=\"mode1\" class=\"panel-title\">Mode: <code>server</code></h3></div><div class=\"panel-body\"><div><p>An empty Capability Statement</p>\n</div><div class=\"lead\"><em>Security</em></div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-lg-6\">Enable CORS: yes</div><div class=\"col-lg-6\">Security services supported: <code>SMART-on-FHIR</code></div></div><blockquote><div><p>This is the Capability Statement to declare that the server supports SMART-on-FHIR. See the SMART-on-FHIR docs for the extension that would go with such a server</p>\n</div></blockquote></div></div></div>"

  },
  "extension" : [{
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg",
    "valueCode" : "fhir"
  }],

  "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/CapabilityStatement/base2",
  "version" : "4.0.1",

  "version" : "6.0.0-ballot3",

  "name" : "Base FHIR Capability Statement (Empty)",
  "status" : "draft",
  "experimental" : true,
  "date" : "2019-11-01T09:29:23+11:00",
  "publisher" : "FHIR Project Team",

  "experimental" : false,
  "date" : "2025-11-17T19:23:40+00:00",
  "publisher" : "HL7 International / FHIR Infrastructure",

  "contact" : [{
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "http://hl7.org/fhir"

      "value" : "http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/fiwg"

    }]
  }],
  "description" : "This is the base Capability Statement for FHIR. It represents a server that provides the none of the functionality defined by FHIR. It is provided to use as a template for system designers to build their own Capability Statements from. A capability statement has to contain something, so this contains a read of a Capability Statement",
  "kind" : "capability",
  "software" : {
    "name" : "Insert your software name here..."
  },
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",

  "fhirVersion" : "6.0.0-ballot3",

  "format" : ["xml",
  "json"],
  "rest" : [{
    "mode" : "server",
    "documentation" : "An empty Capability Statement",
    "security" : {
      "cors" : true,
      "service" : [{
        "coding" : [{
          "system" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/restful-security-service",
          "code" : "SMART-on-FHIR",
          "display" : "SMART-on-FHIR"
        }],
        "text" : "See http://docs.smarthealthit.org/"
      }],
      "description" : "This is the Capability Statement to declare that the server supports SMART-on-FHIR. See the SMART-on-FHIR docs for the extension that would go with such a server"
    },
    "resource" : [{
      "type" : "CapabilityStatement",
      "interaction" : [{
        "code" : "read",
        "documentation" : "Read CapabilityStatement Resource"
      }]
    }]

    }

  }]
}

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.