Unified Conformance Guidance
Unified Conformance Guidance (across product lines)
Project Scope
This project is intended to consolidate the HL7 guidance regarding conformance across product lines into a single specification that addresses conformance in a consistent way across all the HL7 standard specification:
- Analysis Models (Domain Analysis Models, Detailed Clinical Models)
- HL7 Version 2.x
- HL7 Version 3.0
- HL7 CDA
- HL7 Functional Model
- HL7 Service Functional Models
- HL7 FHIR Resource profiling
This specification may reference existing conformance guidance on specific product lines but it will identify generic concepts applicable across product lines (e.g. usability constraints on HL7 V2 messages structures, CDA documents, FHIR resource Definitions).This specification will document how constraint, templates, and profiles are used generically and then illustrate how each product line may add a specific type of conformance statement or product-specific extensibility rules. Additionally, this project will specify or reference best practices, analysis patterns, and other high-level requirements analysis approaches to ensure that HL7 analysis models and A third objective is to address constraints applied to functional and behavioral specification (e.g. service functional models) in order to create functional or service profiles and provide testable conformance statements.
