eHealth Pathology Report - Release Note v2.1

This specification supports structured pathology test results in addition to test results described as narrative.

Release rationale

This is an incremental release of the Structured Pathology specification bundle updates a following product components: 

• Conformance Test Specification Structured Pathology Report
  This document consists of a series of test cases, each of which is a discrete test and a statement of expected behaviour. Vendors can use the documented test cases to assess the conformance of their pathology eHealth software.
• My Health Record Conformance Profile
  The conformance profile has been revised to incorporate a new requirement, 027732, suggesting that vendor software should incorporate a data element for optional information when the data is available.
• Template Package Library 
  The schematrons and template packages are updated to include more values for Individual Pathology Test Result. 
  Removed HPI-I relaxed template packages from Template Package Library bundle to align with mandatory requirement of usage of HPI-Is in MHR. National Healthcare Interoperability plan 2023-2028 promotes the usage of national healthcare identifiers as a priority action. 
  Specifications utilises work performed by the Agency’s predecessor organisation NEHTA (National e-Health Transition Authority). The NEHTA specifications were developed and fully quality-controlled in 2016, however never officially released. The Agency now publishes these specifications unchanged, with only an additional Agency cover page applied to them.