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Vocabulary
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The Terminology Module provides an overview and guide to the FHIR resources, operations, coded datatypes and externally-defined standard and FHIR-defined terminologies that are used for representing and communicating coded, structured data in the FHIR core specification and profiles. Collectively, these capabilities are used to provide the terminology service functionality required for supporting the use of coded data in FHIR resources throughout the specification as described in the other modules.
The primary terminology-related structures and their relationships are shown below:
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Example: Condition profile with Condition.code slice bound to "SNOMED CT fracture codes" value set
[Note: The ElementDefinition type (shown with a dotted box) is described elsewhere in the specification in the Foundation and Conformance modules.]
The Terminology Module covers the following:
Resources
Raw
JSON
Terminology
Service
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Operations
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Coded Datatypes
Definition
for
Documentation
For security considerations for terminology services, see the Terminology Service page Security section . For more general considerations, see the Security and Privacy module .
Usage
note:
every
effort
has
been
made
on
subsumption
relationships
The
following
terminology
resources
have
been
tested
and
are
correct
being
used
in
production
tooling
and
useful,
but
they
now
are
not
a
normative
part
or
are
expected
soon
to
progress
to
normative.
Other
terminology
resources
are
still
in
earlier
stages
of
development.
We
intend
to
continue
to
develop
and
test
these
resources
and
advance
them
through
the
specification.
Maturity
Levels
at
Connectathons
and
elsewhere.