AU Base Implementation Guide
4.2.2-ballot - Ballot
This page is part of the Australian Base IG (v4.2.2-ballot: AU Base R4.2 Ballot 5) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. The current version which supersedes this version is 4.1.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions
Official URL: http://hl7.org.au/fhir/ImplementationGuide/hl7.fhir.au.base | Version: 4.2.2-ballot | |||
IG Standards status: Trial-use | Computable Name: AUBaseImplementationGuide | |||
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This ballot is opened during this cycle to solicit feedback and approval from the wider community. AU Base is balloting this cycle to enable completion of a milestone version that supports the publication of dependent FHIR implementation guides. Feedback provided during the balloting process will be reconciled by the AU FHIR Work Group.
The ballot period is 12 August 2024 to 8 September 2024.
Information on how to provide feedback for balloters is available on this Confluence page: Guidance: Ballot Voting.
This implementation guide is provided to support the use of HL7® FHIR®© in an Australian context.
AU Base defines Australian realm concepts (e.g. Medicare card number) as an additional set of options to what is available in the core FHIR standard, including extensions, terminology and identifiers. It provides base profiles to inform a reader of which added concepts are considered relevant to a particular resource type, and these base profiles may be further constrained in a separate implementation guide for a particular usage. For this reason, AU Base does not apply cardinality constraints or required binding strengths to added concepts (except in rare circumstances), and does not utilise must support flags or recommend or mandate any particular resource, element or interactions.
This guide alone does not constrain profiles sufficiently to ensure implementation use cases can be met.
AU Core defines a set of conformance requirements that enforce a set of ‘minimum requirements’ on the Australian localised concepts from AU Base through cardinality constraints, Must Support flags, required/extensible binding strengths, and capability statements. AU Core is for use by Australian stakeholders when implementing FHIR to provide a common implementation and should be built on top of when creating additional Australian profiles and implementation guides. Conformance to AU Core may become tied to regulatory and/or contractual agreements in order to necessitate adoption to this more prescriptive specification.
IG | Package | FHIR | Comment |
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AU Base Implementation Guide | hl7.fhir.au.base#4.2.2-ballot | R4 | |
HL7 Terminology (THO) | hl7.terminology.r4#6.0.2 | R4 | Automatically added as a dependency - all IGs depend on HL7 Terminology |
FHIR Extensions Pack | hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.1.0 | R4 | Automatically added as a dependency - all IGs depend on the HL7 Extension Pack |
Package hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.1.0 This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Sat, Apr 27, 2024 18:39+1000+10:00) |
This guide is divided into several pages which are listed at the top of each page in the menu bar.
This guide is the product of collaborative work undertaken with participants from:
Primary Editors: Brett Esler, Danielle Tavares-Rixon.