4.0 Document Updates

The following sections provide the history of all changes made to this document.

4.1 May 11, 2007

This document is now Released for Implementation.

4.2 March 19, 2008

This document has been updated to include the HITSP Security and Privacy constructs and has been updated to reflect the new template.

The following change has been made to the construct:

Removed UCUM from Table 2-7 due to the new HITSP standards referencing approach.

4.3 March 27, 2008

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on March 27, 2008, this document is now Released for Implementation.

4.4 August 20, 2008

This document has been modified to reflect the updated HITSP approach to categorizing standards as Regulatory Guidance, Selected Standards, and Informative References.

The following standards were designated as Informative References:

International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS)

International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Related Health Problems (ICD-10-CM)

Added Selected Standard:

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) IT Infrastructure Technical Framework (ITI-TF) Revision 3.0

4.5 August 27, 2008

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on August 27, 2008, this document is now Released for Implementation.

4.6 June 17, 2009

Revised the document based on HITSP TN903 Data Architecture

Section 2.2.1:

Section 2.2.1.1:

4.7 June 30, 2009

Minor editorial changes were made to this construct. Removed boilerplate text for simplification. The term actor was replaced with the term interface.

4.8 July 8, 2009

Upon approval by the HITSP Panel on July 8, 2009, this document is now Released for Implementation.



1 HITSP references HL7 2.5.1 messaging for lab results reporting, and HL7 2.5 for other messages. Future maintenance work will move toward referencing a single HL7 version across HITSP documents.