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| Responsible Owner: Infrastructure And Messaging Work Group | Standards Status : Informative |
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Definition for Code SystemMessageSignificanceCategory
{
"resourceType" : "CodeSystem",
"id" : "message-significance-category",
"meta" : {
"lastUpdated" : "2023-03-26T15:21:02.749+11:00",
"profile" : ["http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/shareablecodesystem"]
"lastUpdated" : "2025-11-20T23:56:49.898+00:00"
},
"text" : {
"status" : "generated",
"div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p>This code system <code>http://hl7.org/fhir/message-significance-category</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class=\"codes\"><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">consequence<a name=\"message-significance-category-consequence\"> </a></td><td>Consequence</td><td>The message represents/requests a change that should not be processed more than once; e.g., making a booking for an appointment.</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">currency<a name=\"message-significance-category-currency\"> </a></td><td>Currency</td><td>The message represents a response to query for current information. Retrospective processing is wrong and/or wasteful.</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">notification<a name=\"message-significance-category-notification\"> </a></td><td>Notification</td><td>The content is not necessarily intended to be current, and it can be reprocessed, though there may be version issues created by processing old notifications.</td></tr></table></div>"
"div" : "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p class=\"res-header-id\"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem message-significance-category</b></p><a name=\"message-significance-category\"> </a><a name=\"hcmessage-significance-category\"> </a><p>This case-sensitive code system <code>http://hl7.org/fhir/message-significance-category</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class=\"codes\"><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">consequence<a name=\"message-significance-category-consequence\"> </a></td><td>Consequence</td><td>The message represents/requests a change that should not be processed more than once; e.g., making a booking for an appointment.</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">currency<a name=\"message-significance-category-currency\"> </a></td><td>Currency</td><td>The message represents a response to query for current information. Retrospective processing is wrong and/or wasteful.</td></tr><tr><td style=\"white-space:nowrap\">notification<a name=\"message-significance-category-notification\"> </a></td><td>Notification</td><td>The content is not necessarily intended to be current, and it can be reprocessed, though there may be version issues created by processing old notifications.</td></tr></table></div>"
},
"extension" : [{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg",
"valueCode" : "inm"
},
{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
"valueCode" : "trial-use"
"valueCode" : "normative"
},
{
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm",
"valueInteger" : 1
}],
"url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/message-significance-category",
"identifier" : [{
"system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
"value" : "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.189"
},
{
"use" : "old",
"system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
"value" : "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.179"
},
{
"use" : "old",
"system" : "urn:ietf:rfc:3986",
"value" : "urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.2.88"
}],
"version" : "5.0.0",
"version" : "6.0.0-ballot3",
"name" : "MessageSignificanceCategory",
"title" : "Message Significance Category",
"status" : "active",
"experimental" : false,
"date" : "2021-01-05T10:01:24+11:00",
"publisher" : "HL7 (FHIR Project)",
"contact" : [{
"telecom" : [{
"system" : "url",
"value" : "http://hl7.org/fhir"
},
{
"system" : "email",
"value" : "fhir@lists.hl7.org"
}]
}],
"description" : "The impact of the content of a message.",
"jurisdiction" : [{
"coding" : [{
"system" : "http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm",
"code" : "001",
"display" : "World"
}]
}],
"caseSensitive" : true,
"valueSet" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/message-significance-category",
"content" : "complete",
"concept" : [{
"code" : "consequence",
"display" : "Consequence",
"definition" : "The message represents/requests a change that should not be processed more than once; e.g., making a booking for an appointment."
},
{
"code" : "currency",
"display" : "Currency",
"definition" : "The message represents a response to query for current information. Retrospective processing is wrong and/or wasteful."
},
{
"code" : "notification",
"display" : "Notification",
"definition" : "The content is not necessarily intended to be current, and it can be reprocessed, though there may be version issues created by processing old notifications."
}]
}
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.
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