AU Patient Summary Implementation Guide
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Future of AU Patient Summary

Page standards status: Informative

AU Patient Summary Target Release Time frames

Patient Summary R1 (& AU Core R2) Target Release Timeline:

  • Intermediate draft snapshots from December 2024 and for each HL7 AU Connectathon
  • R1 Ballot for Comment in the August/September 2025 cycle
  • R1 Ballot for Working Standard in the February/March 2026 cycle, published by June 2026
  • Continued updates on a yearly / 15-monthly cycle from then on
AU Patient Summary R1 Target Release Time Frame

Figure 1: AU Patient Summary R1 Target Release Time Frame

Future updates of AU Patient Summary updates would reflect changes to:

  • AUCDI
  • AU Core
  • International Patient Summary
  • requests from the AU FHIR community

AU Patient Summary R1 Development process

The first release of AU Patient Summary is an 18 month process from HL7 AU proposal to publication of the first release, outlined in the figure below:

AU Patient Summary R1 Development process

Figure 2: AU Patient Summary R1 Development process

Maturing the Baseline

The approach to develop and mature AU Patient Summary is outlined below making reference to the FHIR Maturity Level (FMM) levels is shown in the figure below.

Maturing the AU Patient Summary baseline

Figure 3: Maturing the AU Patient Summary baseline

Future Candidate Requirements Under Consideration

The following items are under consideration to add to AU Patient Summary.

TBD.