HL7 Version 3 Normative Edition, 2017, 10th Edition

The HL7 Version 3 (V3) Normative Edition is a suite of specifications based on HL7's Reference Information Model (RIM). It provides a single source that allows implementers of V3 specifications to work with the full set of messages, data types and terminologies needed to build a complete implementation. The 2017 Normative Edition represents the complete suite of V3 specifications. Each of these specifications has been balloted to formal approval as either a Normative Standard, Informative Document or a Standard for Trial Use. It includes standards for communications that document and manage the care and treatment of patients in a wide variety of healthcare settings. Hence, it is a foundational part of the technologies needed to meet the global challenge of integrating healthcare information in areas such as patient care and public health.



Main sections:

- Normative content

- Artifact identifiers

- Artifact dependency

- Quality assessment reports

- Known issues

- Top level directory structure of both CDs

- Domain subdirectories (Disc 1 only)

- Infrastructure subdirectories (Disc 1 only)

- Processable content subdirectory (Disc 1)

- Processable content subdirectory (Disc 2)

- Source subdirectory (Disc 2 only)

- Tool files subdirectory (Disc 2 only)