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What is an HL7 Product?
A product is something that is created by collaboration within HL7, and has achieved consensus agreement (where applicable).
Categories
Products currently fall into the following categories, based on types of specifications.
- Health Information Exchange Standards
- Health Information Knowledge Representation Standards
- Modeling Standards
- Application Functional Specifications
- Clinical Context Management Standards
- Implementation Guides (of one of the other category types)
- Education Services
Exchange Standards - Subcategories
Within the Exchange Standards encompassing both V2 and V3, with subcategories based loosely on the V3 publishing structure, V3 subcategories include:
- Foundation
- Common Domains
- Administrative Management
- Specification Infrastructure/Messaging
- Health and Clinical Management
Health and Clinical Management subcategory - product granularity
Within the Health and Clinical Management subcategory, products can be
- A domain,
- Individual topics, if they have been balloted separately,
- Standards within a domain (e.g. Foundation) not fitting description of "topic"
- Implementation Guides
