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1.10.0 1.11 HL7, ANSI and the FHIR Standard

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FHIR Release 5 will not be submitted to ANSI Accredited Standards Development Organization. As such, ANSI reviews HL7 processes both in general, and also specifically with regard to each standard. ANSI has certified that portions of this release of FHIR (Release 4) met its requirements for development of a formal standard. Given that many areas of the FHIR specification are still undergoing Trial Use by the HL7 Community, and hence are not ready for balloting consideration as a formal ANSI standard, and in order to manage the processes around the ballot process, four different portions of this specification were balloted as ANSI Normative Specifications: Infrastructure The core framework on which FHIR solutions depend (Abstract base types, data types, formats, standard. None of the RESTful API, and new content and typing rules) Conformance The terminology infrastructure and the base resources that define FHIR implementations and that represent how the specification, and conformance to it, in R5 is defined Patient The Patient resource and related content Observation The Observation resource considered Normative, and related content For will be subject for futher review during the purposes of American National Standards, each of these is an independent standard, review and the other parts of the specification do not contain requirements necessary ballot process for conformance to the formal standard. Given Release 6. Note that the Normative parts of the standard are still a subset of what implementers need to use, implementers are generally focusing on conforming to FHIR R4 as a whole rather than the formal standards. Future versions of this specification content that was normative for Release 4 remains in effect normative, and will extend be treated accordingly during the coverage of format standards. R6 process.