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4.4.1.455 ValueSet http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/elementdefinition-types

Terminology Infrastructure icon Work Group  Maturity Level: N Normative (from v4.0.0) Use Context: Country: World
Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/elementdefinition-types Version: 6.0.0-ballot3
active as of 2025-10-13 Computable Name: ElementDefinitionTypes
Flags: OID: 2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.3298

This value set is used in the following places:

Allowed types for FHIR elements in ElementDefinition.type.code


Generated Narrative: ValueSet elementdefinition-types

Last updated: 2025-10-13T17:52:05.807Z

Profile: Shareable ValueSet

This value set includes codes based on the following rules:

 

This expansion generated 13 Oct 2025


ValueSet

This value set contains 233 concepts

SystemCodeDisplayDefinition
http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/fhirpath-types   http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.String String
http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/fhirpath-types   http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.Boolean Boolean
http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/fhirpath-types   http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.Date Date
http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/fhirpath-types   http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.DateTime DateTime
http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/fhirpath-types   http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.Decimal Decimal
http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/fhirpath-types   http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.Integer Integer
http://hl7.org/fhir/CodeSystem/fhirpath-types   http://hl7.org/fhirpath/System.Time Time
http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Base Base

Base Type: Base definition for all types defined in FHIR type system.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Element Element

Element Type: Base definition for all elements in a resource.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   BackboneElement BackboneElement

BackboneElement Type: Base definition for all elements that are defined inside a resource - but not those in a data type.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DataType DataType

DataType Type: The base class for all re-useable types defined as part of the FHIR Specification.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Address Address

Address Type: An address expressed using postal conventions (as opposed to GPS or other location definition formats). This data type may be used to convey addresses for use in delivering mail as well as for visiting locations which might not be valid for mail delivery. There are a variety of postal address formats defined around the world. The ISO21090-codedString may be used to provide a coded representation of the contents of strings in an Address.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Annotation Annotation

Annotation Type: A text note which also contains information about who made the statement and when.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Attachment Attachment

Attachment Type: For referring to data content defined in other formats.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Availability Availability

Availability Type: Availability data for an {item}, declaring what days/times are available, and any exceptions. The exceptions could be textual only, e.g. Public holidays, or could be time period specific and indicate a specific years dates.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   BackboneType BackboneType

BackboneType Type: Base definition for the few data types that are allowed to carry modifier extensions.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Dosage Dosage

Dosage Type: Indicates how the medication is/was taken or should be taken by the patient.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ElementDefinition ElementDefinition

ElementDefinition Type: Captures constraints on each element within the resource, profile, or extension.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MarketingStatus MarketingStatus

MarketingStatus Type: The marketing status describes the date when an item is actually put on the market or the date as of which it is no longer available.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ProductShelfLife ProductShelfLife

ProductShelfLife Type: The shelf-life and storage information for a medicinal product item or container can be described using this class.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   RelativeTime RelativeTime

RelativeTime Type: RelativeTime is used to express a point in time or an interval of time relative to an event defined in data types other than dateTime.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Timing Timing

Timing Type: Specifies an event that may occur multiple times. Timing schedules are used to record when things are planned, expected or requested to occur. The most common usage is in dosage instructions for medications. They are also used when planning care of various kinds, and may be used for reporting the schedule to which past regular activities were carried out.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CodeableConcept CodeableConcept

CodeableConcept Type: A concept that may be defined by a formal reference to a terminology or ontology or may be provided by text.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CodeableReference CodeableReference

CodeableReference Type: A reference to a resource (by instance), or instead, a reference to a concept defined in a terminology or ontology (by class).

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Coding Coding

Coding Type: A reference to a code defined by a terminology system.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ContactDetail ContactDetail

ContactDetail Type: Specifies contact information for a person or organization.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ContactPoint ContactPoint

ContactPoint Type: Details for all kinds of technology mediated contact points for a person or organization, including telephone, email, etc.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Contributor Contributor

Contributor Type: A contributor to the content of a knowledge asset, including authors, editors, reviewers, and endorsers.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DataRequirement DataRequirement

DataRequirement Type: Describes a required data item for evaluation in terms of the type of data, and optional code or date-based filters of the data.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Expression Expression

Expression Type: A expression that is evaluated in a specified context and returns a value. The context of use of the expression must specify the context in which the expression is evaluated, and how the result of the expression is used.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ExtendedContactDetail ExtendedContactDetail

ExtendedContactDetail Type: Specifies contact information for a specific purpose over a period of time, might be handled/monitored by a specific named person or organization.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Extension Extension

Extension Type: Optional Extension Element - found in all resources.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   HumanName HumanName

HumanName Type: A name, normally of a human, that can be used for other living entities (e.g. animals but not organizations) that have been assigned names by a human and may need the use of name parts or the need for usage information.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Identifier Identifier

Identifier Type: An identifier - identifies some entity uniquely and unambiguously. Typically this is used for business identifiers.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Meta Meta

Meta Type: The metadata about a resource. This is content in the resource that is maintained by the infrastructure. Changes to the content might not always be associated with version changes to the resource.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MonetaryComponent MonetaryComponent

MonetaryComponent Type: Financial line items use this datatype to commonly categorize the value, and other factors that may effect how the value should be interpreted.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Money Money

Money Type: An amount of economic utility in some recognized currency.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Narrative Narrative

Narrative Type: A human-readable summary of the resource conveying the essential clinical and business information for the resource.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ParameterDefinition ParameterDefinition

ParameterDefinition Type: The parameters to the module. This collection specifies both the input and output parameters. Input parameters are provided by the caller as part of the $evaluate operation. Output parameters are included in the GuidanceResponse.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Period Period

Period Type: A time period defined by a start and end date and optionally time.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   PrimitiveType PrimitiveType

PrimitiveType Type: The base type for all re-useable types defined that have a simple property.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   base64Binary base64Binary

base64Binary Type: A stream of bytes

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   boolean boolean

boolean Type: Value of "true" or "false"

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   date date

date Type: A date or partial date (e.g. just year or year + month). There is no UTC offset. The format is a union of the schema types gYear, gYearMonth and date. Dates SHALL be valid dates.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   dateTime dateTime

dateTime Type: A date, date-time or partial date (e.g. just year or year + month). If hours and minutes are specified, a UTC offset SHALL be populated. The format is a union of the schema types gYear, gYearMonth, date and dateTime. Seconds must be provided due to schema type constraints but may be zero-filled and may be ignored. Dates SHALL be valid dates.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   decimal decimal

decimal Type: A rational number with implicit precision

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   instant instant

instant Type: An instant in time - known at least to the second

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   integer integer

integer Type: A whole number

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   positiveInt positiveInt

positiveInt type: An integer with a value that is positive (e.g. >0)

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   unsignedInt unsignedInt

unsignedInt type: An integer with a value that is not negative (e.g. >= 0)

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   integer64 integer64

integer64 Type: A very large whole number

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   string string

string Type: A sequence of Unicode characters

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   code code

code type: A string which has at least one character and no leading or trailing whitespace and where there is no whitespace other than single spaces in the contents

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   id id

id type: Any combination of letters, numerals, "-" and ".", with a length limit of 64 characters. (This might be an integer, an unprefixed OID, UUID or any other identifier pattern that meets these constraints.) Ids are case-insensitive.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   markdown markdown

markdown type: A string that may contain Github Flavored Markdown syntax for optional processing by a mark down presentation engine

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   time time

time Type: A time during the day, with no date specified

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   uri uri

uri Type: String of characters used to identify a name or a resource

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   canonical canonical

canonical type: A URI that is a reference to a canonical URL on a FHIR resource

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   oid oid

oid type: An OID represented as a URI

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   url url

url type: A URI that is a literal reference

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   uuid uuid

uuid type: A UUID, represented as a URI

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Quantity Quantity

Quantity Type: A measured amount (or an amount that can potentially be measured). Note that measured amounts include amounts that are not precisely quantified, including amounts involving arbitrary units and floating currencies.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Age Age

Age Type: A duration of time during which an organism (or a process) has existed.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Count Count

Count Type: A measured amount (or an amount that can potentially be measured). Note that measured amounts include amounts that are not precisely quantified, including amounts involving arbitrary units and floating currencies.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Distance Distance

Distance Type: A length - a value with a unit that is a physical distance.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Duration Duration

Duration Type: A length of time.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Range Range

Range Type: A set of ordered Quantities defined by a low and high limit.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Ratio Ratio

Ratio Type: A relationship of two Quantity values - expressed as a numerator and a denominator.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   RatioRange RatioRange

RatioRange Type: A range of ratios expressed as a low and high numerator and a denominator.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Reference Reference

Reference Type: A reference from one resource to another.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   RelatedArtifact RelatedArtifact

RelatedArtifact Type: Related artifacts such as additional documentation, justification, or bibliographic references.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   SampledData SampledData

SampledData Type: A series of measurements taken by a device, with upper and lower limits. There may be more than one dimension in the data.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Signature Signature

Signature Type: A signature along with supporting context. The signature may be a digital signature that is cryptographic in nature, or some other signature acceptable to the domain. This other signature may be as simple as a graphical image representing a hand-written signature, or a signature ceremony Different signature approaches have different utilities.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   TriggerDefinition TriggerDefinition

TriggerDefinition Type: A description of a triggering event. Triggering events can be named events, data events, or periodic, as determined by the type element.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   UsageContext UsageContext

UsageContext Type: Specifies clinical/business/etc. metadata that can be used to retrieve, index and/or categorize an artifact. This metadata can either be specific to the applicable population (e.g., age category, DRG) or the specific context of care (e.g., venue, care setting, provider of care).

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   VirtualServiceDetail VirtualServiceDetail

VirtualServiceDetail Type: The set of values required to describe a virtual service's connection details, including some limitations of the service.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   xhtml xhtml

xhtml Type definition

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Resource Resource

This is the base resource type for everything.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Binary Binary

A resource that represents the data of a single raw artifact as digital content accessible in its native format. A Binary resource can contain any content, whether text, image, pdf, zip archive, etc.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Bundle Bundle

A container for a collection of resources.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DomainResource DomainResource

A resource that includes narrative, extensions, and contained resources.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Account Account

A financial tool for tracking value accrued for a particular purpose. In the healthcare field, used to track charges for a patient, cost centers, etc.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ActivityDefinition ActivityDefinition

This resource allows for the definition of some activity to be performed, independent of a particular patient, practitioner, or other performance context.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ActorDefinition ActorDefinition

The ActorDefinition resource is used to describe an actor - a human or an application that plays a role in data exchange, and that may have obligations associated with the role the actor plays.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   AdministrableProductDefinition AdministrableProductDefinition

A medicinal product in the final form which is suitable for administering to a patient (after any mixing of multiple components, dissolution etc. has been performed).

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   AdverseEvent AdverseEvent

An event (i.e. any change to current patient status) that may be related to unintended effects on a patient or research participant. The unintended effects may require additional monitoring, treatment, hospitalization, or may result in death. The AdverseEvent resource also extends to potential or avoided events that could have had such effects. There are two major domains where the AdverseEvent resource is expected to be used. One is in clinical care reported adverse events and the other is in reporting adverse events in clinical research trial management. Adverse events can be reported by healthcare providers, patients, caregivers or by medical products manufacturers. Given the differences between these two concepts, we recommend consulting the domain specific implementation guides when implementing the AdverseEvent Resource. The implementation guides include specific extensions, value sets and constraints.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   AllergyIntolerance AllergyIntolerance

Risk of harmful or undesirable, physiological response which is unique to an individual and associated with exposure to a substance.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Appointment Appointment

A booking of a healthcare event among patient(s), practitioner(s), related person(s) and/or device(s) for a specific date/time. This may result in one or more Encounter(s).

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   AppointmentResponse AppointmentResponse

A reply to an appointment request for a patient and/or practitioner(s), such as a confirmation or rejection.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ArtifactAssessment ArtifactAssessment

This Resource provides one or more comments, classifiers or ratings about a Resource and supports attribution and rights management metadata for the added content.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   AuditEvent AuditEvent

A record of an event relevant for purposes such as operations, privacy, security, maintenance, and performance analysis.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Basic Basic

Basic is used for handling concepts not yet defined in FHIR, narrative-only resources that don't map to an existing resource, and custom resources not appropriate for inclusion in the FHIR specification.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   BiologicallyDerivedProduct BiologicallyDerivedProduct

A biological material originating from a biological entity intended to be transplanted or infused into another (possibly the same) biological entity.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   BiologicallyDerivedProductDispense BiologicallyDerivedProductDispense

A record of dispensation of a biologically derived product.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   BodyStructure BodyStructure

Record details about an anatomical structure. This resource may be used when a coded concept does not provide the necessary detail needed for the use case.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CanonicalResource CanonicalResource

Common Interface declaration for conformance and knowledge artifact resources.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CapabilityStatement CapabilityStatement

A Capability Statement documents a set of capabilities (behaviors) of a FHIR Server or Client for a particular version of FHIR that may be used as a statement of actual server functionality or a statement of required or desired server implementation.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CarePlan CarePlan

Describes the intention of how one or more practitioners intend to deliver care for a particular patient, group or community for a period of time, possibly limited to care for a specific condition or set of conditions.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CareTeam CareTeam

The Care Team includes all the people, organizations, and care teams who participate or plan to participate in the coordination and delivery of care.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ChargeItem ChargeItem

The resource ChargeItem describes the provision of healthcare provider products for a certain patient, therefore referring not only to the product, but containing in addition details of the provision, like date, time, amounts and participating organizations and persons. Main Usage of the ChargeItem is to enable the billing process and internal cost allocation.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ChargeItemDefinition ChargeItemDefinition

The ChargeItemDefinition resource provides the properties that apply to the (billing) codes necessary to calculate costs and prices. The properties may differ largely depending on type and realm, therefore this resource gives only a rough structure and requires profiling for each type of billing code system.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Citation Citation

The Citation Resource enables reference to any knowledge artifact for purposes of identification and attribution. The Citation Resource supports existing reference structures and developing publication practices such as versioning, expressing complex contributorship roles, and referencing computable resources.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Claim Claim

A provider issued list of professional services and products which have been provided, or are to be provided, to a patient which is sent to an insurer for reimbursement.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ClaimResponse ClaimResponse

This resource provides the adjudication details from the processing of a Claim resource.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ClinicalAssessment ClinicalAssessment

A record of a clinical assessment performed to determine what problem(s) may affect the patient and before planning the treatments or management strategies that are best to manage a patient's condition. Assessments are often 1:1 with a clinical consultation / encounter, but this varies greatly depending on the clinical workflow.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ClinicalUseDefinition ClinicalUseDefinition

A single issue - either an indication, contraindication, interaction, undesirable effect or warning for a medicinal product, medication, device or procedure.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CodeSystem CodeSystem

The CodeSystem resource is used to declare the existence of and describe a code system or code system supplement and its key properties, and optionally define a part or all of its content.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Communication Communication

A clinical or business level record of information being transmitted or shared; e.g. an alert that was sent to a responsible provider, a public health agency communication to a provider/reporter in response to a case report for a reportable condition.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CommunicationRequest CommunicationRequest

A request to convey information from a sender to a recipient.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CompartmentDefinition CompartmentDefinition

A compartment definition that defines how resources are accessed on a server.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Composition Composition

A set of healthcare-related information that is assembled together into a single logical package that provides a single coherent statement of meaning, establishes its own context and that has clinical attestation with regard to who is making the statement. A Composition defines the structure and narrative content necessary for a document. However, a Composition alone does not constitute a document. Rather, the Composition must be the first entry in a Bundle where Bundle.type=document, and any other resources referenced from Composition must be included as subsequent entries in the Bundle (for example Patient, Practitioner, Encounter, etc.).

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ConceptMap ConceptMap

A statement of relationships from one set of concepts to one or more other concepts - either concepts in code systems, or data element/data element concepts, or classes in class models.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Condition Condition

A clinical condition, problem, diagnosis, or other event, situation, issue, or clinical concept that has risen to a level of concern.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ConditionDefinition ConditionDefinition

A definition of a condition and information relevant to managing it.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Consent Consent

A record of a healthcare consumer’s choices or choices made on their behalf by a third party, which permits or denies identified recipient(s) or recipient role(s) to perform one or more actions within a given policy context, for specific purposes and periods of time.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Contract Contract

Legally enforceable, formally recorded unilateral or bilateral directive i.e., a policy or agreement.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Coverage Coverage

Financial instrument which may be used to reimburse or pay for health care products and services. Includes both insurance and self-payment.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CoverageEligibilityRequest CoverageEligibilityRequest

The CoverageEligibilityRequest provides patient and insurance coverage information to an insurer for them to respond, in the form of an CoverageEligibilityResponse, with information regarding whether the stated coverage is valid and in-force and optionally to provide the insurance details of the policy.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   CoverageEligibilityResponse CoverageEligibilityResponse

This resource provides eligibility and plan details from the processing of an CoverageEligibilityRequest resource.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DetectedIssue DetectedIssue

Indicates an actual or potential clinical issue with or between one or more active or proposed clinical actions for a patient; e.g. Drug-drug interaction, Ineffective treatment frequency, Procedure-condition conflict, gaps in care, etc.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Device Device

This resource describes the properties (regulated, has real time clock, etc.), administrative (manufacturer name, model number, serial number, firmware, etc.), and type (knee replacement, blood pressure cuff, MRI, etc.) of a physical unit (these values do not change much within a given module, for example the serial number, manufacturer name, and model number). An actual unit may consist of several modules in a distinct hierarchy and these are represented by multiple Device resources and bound through the 'parent' element.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DeviceAlert DeviceAlert

Describes a physiological or technical alert condition report originated by a device. The DeviceAlert resource is derived from the ISO/IEEE 11073-10201 Domain Information Model standard, but is more widely applicable.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DeviceAssociation DeviceAssociation

A record of association of a device.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DeviceDefinition DeviceDefinition

This is a specialized resource that defines the characteristics and capabilities of a device.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DeviceDispense DeviceDispense

Indicates that a device is to be or has been dispensed for a named person/patient. This includes a description of the product (supply) provided and the instructions for using the device.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DeviceMetric DeviceMetric

Describes a measurement, calculation or setting capability of a device. The DeviceMetric resource is derived from the ISO/IEEE 11073-10201 Domain Information Model standard, but is more widely applicable.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DeviceRequest DeviceRequest

Represents a request a device to be provided to a specific patient. The device may be an implantable device to be subsequently implanted, or an external assistive device, such as a walker, to be delivered and subsequently be used.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DeviceUsage DeviceUsage

A record of a device being used by a patient where the record is the result of a report from the patient or a clinician.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DiagnosticReport DiagnosticReport

The findings and interpretation of diagnostic tests performed on patients, groups of patients, products, substances, devices, and locations, and/or specimens derived from these. The report includes clinical context such as requesting provider information, and some mix of atomic results, images, textual and coded interpretations, and formatted representation of diagnostic reports. The report also includes non-clinical context such as batch analysis and stability reporting of products and substances.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   DocumentReference DocumentReference

A reference to a document of any kind for any purpose. While the term “document” implies a more narrow focus, for this resource this “document” encompasses any serialized object with a mime-type, it includes formal patient-centric documents (CDA), clinical notes, scanned paper, non-patient specific documents like policy text, as well as a photo, video, or audio recording acquired or used in healthcare. The DocumentReference resource provides metadata about the document so that the document can be discovered and managed. The actual content may be inline base64 encoded data or provided by direct reference.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Encounter Encounter

An interaction between healthcare provider(s), and/or patient(s) for the purpose of providing healthcare service(s) or assessing the health status of patient(s).

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   EncounterHistory EncounterHistory

A record of significant events/milestones key data throughout the history of an Encounter

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Endpoint Endpoint

The technical details of an endpoint that can be used for electronic services, such as for web services providing XDS.b, a REST endpoint for another FHIR server, or a s/Mime email address. This may include any security context information.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   EnrollmentRequest EnrollmentRequest

This resource provides the insurance enrollment details to the insurer regarding a specified coverage.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   EnrollmentResponse EnrollmentResponse

This resource provides enrollment and plan details from the processing of an EnrollmentRequest resource.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   EpisodeOfCare EpisodeOfCare

An association between a patient and an organization / healthcare provider(s) during which time encounters may occur. The managing organization assumes a level of responsibility for the patient during this time.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   EventDefinition EventDefinition

The EventDefinition resource provides a reusable description of when a particular event can occur.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Evidence Evidence

The Evidence Resource provides a machine-interpretable expression of an evidence concept including the evidence variables (e.g., population, exposures/interventions, comparators, outcomes, measured variables, confounding variables), the statistics, and the certainty of this evidence.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   EvidenceVariable EvidenceVariable

The EvidenceVariable resource describes an element that knowledge (Evidence) is about.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ExampleScenario ExampleScenario

A walkthrough of a workflow showing the interaction between systems and the instances shared, possibly including the evolution of instances over time.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ExplanationOfBenefit ExplanationOfBenefit

This resource provides: the claim details; adjudication details from the processing of a Claim; and optionally account balance information, for informing the subscriber of the benefits provided.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   FamilyMemberHistory FamilyMemberHistory

Significant health conditions for a person related to the patient relevant in the context of care for the patient.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Flag Flag

Prospective warnings of potential issues when providing care to the patient.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   FormularyItem FormularyItem

This resource describes a product or service that is available through a program and includes the conditions and constraints of availability. All of the information in this resource is specific to the inclusion of the item in the formulary and is not inherent to the item itself.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   GenomicStudy GenomicStudy

A set of analyses performed to analyze and generate genomic data.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Goal Goal

Describes the intended objective(s) for a patient, group, or organizational care. Examples include a patient's weight loss, restoration of an activity of daily living for a patient, obtaining herd immunity via immunization for a group, meeting a process improvement objective for an organization, etc.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   GraphDefinition GraphDefinition

A formal computable definition of a graph of resources - that is, a coherent set of resources that form a graph by following references. The Graph Definition resource defines a set and makes rules about the set.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Group Group

Represents a defined collection of entities that may be discussed or acted upon collectively but which are not typically expected to act collectively. These collections are also not typically formally or legally recognized.

NOTE: Group may be used to define families or households, which in some circumstances may act collectively or have a degree of legal or formal recognition. This should be considered an exception. When Group is used for types of entities other than Patient or RelatedPerson, the expectation remains that the Group will not act collectively or have formal recognition - use Organization if these behaviors are needed.

For example, it is possible for a 'family' Group to be a performer of an Observation or owner of a Task. However, this is not permitted for a Group made up of Practitioners, PractitionerRoles or Organizations. Organization or CareTeam would need to be used instead. A Group of Practitioners could, however, be a subject of an Observation.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   GuidanceResponse GuidanceResponse

A guidance response is the formal response to a guidance request, including any output parameters returned by the evaluation, as well as the description of any proposed actions to be taken.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   HealthcareService HealthcareService

The details of a healthcare service available at a location or in a catalog. In the case where there is a hierarchy of services (for example, Lab -> Pathology -> Wound Cultures), this can be represented using a set of linked HealthcareServices.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ImagingSelection ImagingSelection

A selection of DICOM SOP instances and/or frames within a single Study and Series. This might include additional specifics such as an image region, an Observation from a DICOM SR Content Item or a Segment Number from a DICOM Segmentation SOP Instance.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ImagingStudy ImagingStudy

Representation of the content produced in a DICOM imaging study. A study comprises a set of series, each of which includes a set of images or other data objects (called Service-Object Pair Instances or SOP Instances) acquired or produced in a common context.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Immunization Immunization

Describes the event of a patient being administered a vaccine or a record of an immunization as reported by a patient, a clinician or another party.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ImmunizationEvaluation ImmunizationEvaluation

Describes a comparison of an immunization event against published recommendations to determine if the administration is "valid" in relation to those recommendations.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ImmunizationRecommendation ImmunizationRecommendation

A patient's point-in-time set of recommendations (i.e. forecasting) according to a published schedule with optional supporting justification.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ImplementationGuide ImplementationGuide

A set of rules of how a particular interoperability or standards problem is solved - typically through the use of FHIR resources. This resource is used to gather all the parts of an implementation guide into a logical whole and to publish a computable definition of all the parts.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Ingredient Ingredient

An ingredient of a manufactured item or pharmaceutical product.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   InsurancePlan InsurancePlan

Details of a Health Insurance plan provided by an organization under an InsuranceProduct.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   InsuranceProduct InsuranceProduct

Details of a Health Insurance product provided by an organization.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   InventoryItem InventoryItem

functional description of an inventory item used in inventory and supply-related workflows.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   InventoryReport InventoryReport

A report of inventory or stock items.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Invoice Invoice

Invoice containing collected ChargeItems from an Account with calculated individual and total price for Billing purpose.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Library Library

The Library resource is a general-purpose container for knowledge asset definitions. It can be used to describe and expose existing knowledge assets such as logic libraries and information model descriptions, as well as to describe a collection of knowledge assets.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Linkage Linkage

Identifies two or more records (resource instances) that refer to the same real-world "occurrence".

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   List List

A List is a curated collection of resources, for things such as problem lists, allergy lists, facility list, organization list, etc.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Location Location

Details and position information for a place where services are provided and resources and participants may be stored, found, contained, or accommodated.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ManufacturedItemDefinition ManufacturedItemDefinition

The definition and characteristics of a medicinal manufactured item, such as a tablet or capsule, as contained in a packaged medicinal product.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Measure Measure

The Measure resource provides the definition of a quality measure.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MeasureReport MeasureReport

The MeasureReport resource contains the results of the calculation of a measure; and optionally a reference to the resources involved in that calculation.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Medication Medication

This resource is primarily used for the identification and definition of a medication, including ingredients, for the purposes of prescribing, dispensing, and administering a medication as well as for making statements about medication use.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MedicationAdministration MedicationAdministration

Describes the event of a patient consuming or otherwise being administered a medication. This may be as simple as swallowing a tablet or it may be a long running infusion. Related resources tie this event to the authorizing prescription, and the specific encounter between patient and health care practitioner. This event can also be used to record waste using a status of not-done and the appropriate statusReason.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MedicationDispense MedicationDispense

Indicates that a medication product is to be or has been dispensed for a named person/patient. This includes a description of the medication product (supply) provided and the instructions for administering the medication. The medication dispense is the result of a pharmacy system responding to a medication order.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MedicationKnowledge MedicationKnowledge

Information about a medication that is used to support knowledge.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MedicationRequest MedicationRequest

An order or request for both supply of the medication and the instructions for administration of the medication to a patient. The resource is called "MedicationRequest" rather than "MedicationPrescription" or "MedicationOrder" to generalize the use across inpatient and outpatient settings, including care plans, etc., and to harmonize with workflow patterns.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MedicationStatement MedicationStatement

A record of a medication that is being consumed by a patient. A MedicationStatement may indicate that the patient may be taking the medication now or has taken the medication in the past or will be taking the medication in the future. The source of this information can be the patient, significant other (such as a family member or spouse), or a clinician. A common scenario where this information is captured is during the history taking process during a patient visit or stay. The medication information may come from sources such as the patient's memory, from a prescription bottle, or from a list of medications the patient, clinician or other party maintains.

The primary difference between a medicationstatement and a medicationadministration is that the medication administration has complete administration information and is based on actual administration information from the person who administered the medication. A medicationstatement is often, if not always, less specific. There is no required date/time when the medication was administered, in fact we only know that a source has reported the patient is taking this medication, where details such as time, quantity, or rate or even medication product may be incomplete or missing or less precise. As stated earlier, the Medication Statement information may come from the patient's memory, from a prescription bottle or from a list of medications the patient, clinician or other party maintains. Medication administration is more formal and is not missing detailed information.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MedicinalProductDefinition MedicinalProductDefinition

Detailed definition of a medicinal product, typically for uses other than direct patient care (e.g. regulatory use, drug catalogs, to support prescribing, adverse events management etc.).

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MessageDefinition MessageDefinition

Defines the characteristics of a message that can be shared between systems, including the type of event that initiates the message, the content to be transmitted and what response(s), if any, are permitted.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MessageHeader MessageHeader

The header for a message exchange that is either requesting or responding to an action. The reference(s) that are the subject of the action as well as other information related to the action are typically transmitted in a bundle in which the MessageHeader resource instance is the first resource in the bundle.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MetadataResource MetadataResource

Common Interface declaration for conformance and knowledge artifact resources.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   MolecularDefinition MolecularDefinition

Definitional content for a molecular entity, such as a nucleotide or protein sequence.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   NamingSystem NamingSystem

A curated namespace that issues unique symbols within that namespace for the identification of concepts, people, devices, etc. Represents a "System" used within the Identifier and Coding data types.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   NutritionIntake NutritionIntake

A record of intake by a patient. A NutritionIntake may indicate that the patient may be consuming the food (i.e., solid and/or liquid), breastmilk, infant formula, supplements, enteral formula now or has consumed it in the past. The source of this information can be the patient, significant other (such as a family member or spouse), or a clinician. A common scenario where this information is captured is during the history taking process during a patient visit or stay or through an app that tracks food (i.e., solid and/or liquid), breastmilk, infant formula, supplements, enteral formula consumed. The consumption information may come from sources such as the patient's memory, from a nutrition label, or from a clinician documenting observed intake.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   NutritionOrder NutritionOrder

A request to supply a diet, formula feeding (enteral) or oral nutritional supplement to an individual or group.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   NutritionProduct NutritionProduct

A food or supplement that is consumed by patients.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Observation Observation

Measurements and simple assertions made about a patient, device or other subject.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ObservationDefinition ObservationDefinition

Set of definitional characteristics for a kind of observation or measurement produced or consumed by an orderable health care service.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   OperationDefinition OperationDefinition

A formal computable definition of an operation (on the RESTful interface) or a named query (using the search interaction).

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   OperationOutcome OperationOutcome

A collection of error, warning, or information messages that result from a system action.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Organization Organization

A formally or informally recognized grouping of people or organizations formed for the purpose of achieving some form of collective action.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   OrganizationAffiliation OrganizationAffiliation

Defines an affiliation/assotiation/relationship between 2 distinct organizations, that is not a part-of relationship/sub-division relationship.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   PackagedProductDefinition PackagedProductDefinition

A medically related item or items, in a container or package.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Patient Patient

Demographics and other administrative information about an individual or animal that is the subject of potential, past, current, or future health-related care, services, or processes.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   PaymentNotice PaymentNotice

This resource provides the status of the payment for goods and services rendered, and the request and response resource references.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   PaymentReconciliation PaymentReconciliation

This resource provides the details including amount of a payment and allocates the payment items being paid.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Permission Permission

Permission resource holds access rules for a given data and access request context.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Person Person

Demographics and administrative information about a person independent of a specific health-related context.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   PersonalRelationship PersonalRelationship

Details about the relationship between 2 individuals.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   PlanDefinition PlanDefinition

This resource allows for the definition of various types of plans as a sharable, consumable, and executable artifact. The resource is general enough to support the description of a broad range of clinical and non-clinical artifacts such as clinical decision support rules, order sets, protocols, and drug quality specifications.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Practitioner Practitioner

A person who is directly or indirectly involved in the provisioning of healthcare or related services.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   PractitionerRole PractitionerRole

A specific set of Roles/Locations/specialties/services that a practitioner may perform, or has performed at an organization during a period of time.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Procedure Procedure

An action that is or was performed on or for a patient, practitioner, device, organization, or location. For example, this can be a physical intervention on a patient like an operation, or less invasive like long term services, counseling, or hypnotherapy. This can be a quality or safety inspection for a location, organization, or device. This can be an accreditation procedure on a practitioner for licensing.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Provenance Provenance

Provenance of a resource is a record that describes entities and processes involved in producing and delivering or otherwise influencing that resource. Provenance provides a critical foundation for assessing authenticity, enabling trust, and allowing reproducibility. Provenance assertions are a form of contextual metadata and can themselves become important records with their own provenance. Provenance statement indicates clinical significance in terms of confidence in authenticity, reliability, and trustworthiness, integrity, and stage in lifecycle (e.g. Document Completion - has the artifact been legally authenticated), all of which may impact security, privacy, and trust policies.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Questionnaire Questionnaire

A structured set of questions intended to guide the collection of answers from end-users. Questionnaires provide detailed control over order, presentation, phraseology and grouping to allow coherent, consistent data collection.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   QuestionnaireResponse QuestionnaireResponse

A structured set of questions and their answers. The questions are ordered and grouped into coherent subsets, corresponding to the structure of the grouping of the questionnaire being responded to.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   RegulatedAuthorization RegulatedAuthorization

Regulatory approval, clearance or licensing related to a regulated product, treatment, facility or activity that is cited in a guidance, regulation, rule or legislative act. An example is Market Authorization relating to a Medicinal Product.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   RelatedPerson RelatedPerson

Information about a person that is involved in a patient's health or the care for a patient, but who is not the primary target of healthcare.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   RequestOrchestration RequestOrchestration

A set of related requests that can be used to capture intended activities that have inter-dependencies such as "give this medication after that one".

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Requirements Requirements

The Requirements resource is used to describe an actor - a human or an application that plays a role in data exchange, and that may have obligations associated with the role the actor plays.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ResearchStudy ResearchStudy

A scientific study intended to increase health-related knowledge. For example, clinical trials are research studies that involve people. These studies may be related to new ways to screen, prevent, diagnose, and treat disease. They may also study certain outcomes and certain groups of people by looking at data collected in the past or future.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ResearchSubject ResearchSubject

A ResearchSubject is a participant or object which is the recipient of investigative activities in a research study.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   RiskAssessment RiskAssessment

An assessment of the likely outcome(s) for a patient or other subject as well as the likelihood of each outcome.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Schedule Schedule

A container for slots of time that may be available for booking appointments.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   SearchParameter SearchParameter

A search parameter that defines a named search item that can be used to search/filter on a resource.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ServiceRequest ServiceRequest

A record of a request for service such as diagnostic investigations, treatments, or operations to be performed.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Slot Slot

A slot of time on a schedule that may be available for booking appointments.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Specimen Specimen

A sample to be used for analysis.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   SpecimenDefinition SpecimenDefinition

A kind of specimen with associated set of requirements.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   StructureDefinition StructureDefinition

A definition of a FHIR structure. This resource is used to describe the underlying resources, data types defined in FHIR, and also for describing extensions and constraints on resources and data types.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   StructureMap StructureMap

A Map of relationships between 2 structures that can be used to transform data.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Subscription Subscription

The subscription resource describes a particular client's request to be notified about a SubscriptionTopic.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   SubscriptionStatus SubscriptionStatus

The SubscriptionStatus resource describes the state of a Subscription during notifications. It is not persisted.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   SubscriptionTopic SubscriptionTopic

Describes a stream of resource state changes identified by trigger criteria and annotated with labels useful to filter projections from this topic.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Substance Substance

A homogeneous material with a definite composition.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   SubstanceDefinition SubstanceDefinition

The detailed description of a substance, typically at a level beyond what is used for prescribing.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   SupplyDelivery SupplyDelivery

Record of delivery of what is supplied.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   SupplyRequest SupplyRequest

A record of a non-patient specific request for a medication, substance, device, certain types of biologically derived product, and nutrition product used in the healthcare setting.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Task Task

A task to be performed as a part of a workflow and the related information like inputs, outputs and execution progress.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   TerminologyCapabilities TerminologyCapabilities

A TerminologyCapabilities resource documents a set of capabilities (behaviors) of a FHIR Terminology Server that may be used as a statement of actual server functionality or a statement of required or desired server implementation.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Transport Transport

Record of transport.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   ValueSet ValueSet

A ValueSet resource instance specifies a set of codes drawn from one or more code systems, intended for use in a particular context. Value sets link between CodeSystem definitions and their use in coded elements.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   VerificationResult VerificationResult

Describes validation requirements, source(s), status and dates for one or more elements.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   VisionPrescription VisionPrescription

An authorization for the provision of glasses and/or contact lenses to a patient.

http://hl7.org/fhir/fhir-types   Parameters Parameters

This resource is used to pass information into and back from an operation (whether invoked directly from REST or within a messaging environment). It is not persisted or allowed to be referenced by other resources except as described in the definition of the Parameters resource.

 

See the full registry of value sets defined as part of FHIR.


Explanation of the columns that may appear on this page:

Lvl A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. For value sets, levels are mostly used to organize codes for user convenience, but may follow code system hierarchy - see Code System for further information
Source The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere)
Code The code (used as the code in the resource instance). If the code is in italics, this indicates that the code is not selectable ('Abstract')
Display The display (used in the display element of a Coding). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application
Definition An explanation of the meaning of the concept
Comments Additional notes about how to use the code