Guidance for FHIR IG Creation, published by HL7 International / FHIR Management Group. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/FHIR/ig-guidance/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Table of Contents

0 Table of Contents

1 IG Home Page

2 Background

3 Reading Implemenation Guides

4 Versions and Dependencies

5 IG Best Practices

6 OID Assignment

7 Managing Canonical Versions (pinning)

8 Working with Terminology

9 Working with SQL

10 Presenting JSON and XML files

11 Using Instance Fragments

12 Including Generated Fragments

13 Creating Class Diagrams

14 The Artifacts Table

15 Producing Multi-Language IGs

16 Managing Conformance Statements

17 Maturity Propagation

18 IG Tooling

19 Related IGs

20 Using the HL7 Templates

21 Adding diagrams (PlantUml)

22 Adding diagrams (Mermaid)

23 Testing Support

23.1 Working with Test Data Factories

23.2 Using Matchetypes

23.3 Profile Test Cases

24 Working with Multiple Maps

25 VCL: ValueSet Compose Language

26 Working with Binaries

27 Rules about Narrative

28 Extending the HL7 IG Templates

28.1 Changing the IG colors

29 Useful Downloads

30 IG Change History

31 Artifacts Summary

31.1 LogicalPatient

31.2 TestPatientProfile

31.3 LogicalPatientMap

31.4 Example Patient - 47234

31.5 Example Patient - 689272

31.6 Example Patient - 2451

31.7 Example Patient - 562

31.8 Example patient

31.9 null (Bundle)

31.10 null (Bundle)

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