FHIR Ballot Prep

This page lists the tasks to be completed by work groups in preparation for the R4 release of the FHIR core specification. The timelines for implementation guide publication and balloting may differ. Implementation Guides may choose to either publish in sync with the core specification (and actively manage dependencies as underlying resources and profiles are updated) or may choose to ballot later, once the FHIR specification is finalized. (The disadvantage of the latter approach is that changes to the core specification identified as part of implementation guide revision won't be able to be applied until a subsequent release)

The current schedule for the next connectathon/ballot base (Sept 2017)

• June 7th - connectathon proposal deadline
• July 30th - freeze deadline for connectathon/ballot

The current schedule for this release is as follows (dates will become more specific as we get closer):

• Nov. 2017
  • All resources that are candidates for STU in R4 are included in spec in sufficient form to allow draft review
  • All artifacts & pages that are candidates for normative are identified to FMG
• Dec. 2017
  • For Comment ballot on FHIR core spec
• Mar. 2018
  • Final freeze for all R4 content.
• Apr. 2018 STU/Normative ballot
• Aug 2018
  • Potential limited ballot on substantive changes to normative artifacts and/or revision of normative scope
• Nov 2018
  • Publication freeze
• Dec 2018
  • R4 published