7.0 Document Updates

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

7.1 June 30, 2009

No changes. This is the first published version of the document.

7.2 July 8, 2009

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



[1] HITSP anticipates that HITSP Data Elements will eventually become a separate HITSP publication maintained jointly by the respective HITSP Domain Technical Committees.

[2] Note that the spelling of OrganisationName in this example is based upon exactly what is written in the standard.

[3] As of the date of this publication HL7 is presently engaged in the development of a set of business requirements for a template registry, which members of HITSP have also been participating in. There is a great deal of cross-fertilization going on in this project, but as of today, there are no template registries currently in use. AHRQ-USHIK has captured some of the template metadata in its data element registry, and will be working with HITSP and other member SDOs to develop a template registry. PHIN-VADS has indicated that they will be developing a template registry for CDA templates describing population health and biosurveillance.

[4] If a template uses value set 10 in one definition, and then uses value set 11 in a new definition, this is a change in value set identity.

[5] For example, C48 and C84 describe constraints for two different document subtypes within the component.

[6] The OIDs for these templates will start with 2.16.840.1.113883.3.88.11, and will be followed with the IS number, and the subset sequence number in the IS where it was defined.