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 Creating Class Diagrams

13 Producing Multi-Language IGs

14 Managing Conformance Statements

15 Maturity Propagation

16 IG Tooling

17 Related IGs

18 Using the HL7 Templates

19 Adding diagrams (PlantUml)

20 Adding diagrams (Mermaid)

21 Testing Support

21.1 Working with Test Data Factories

21.2 Using Matchetypes

21.3 Profile Test Cases

22 Working with Multiple Maps

23 VCL: ValueSet Compose Language

24 Working with Binaries

25 Rules about Narrative

26 Extending the HL7 IG Templates

26.1 Changing the IG colors

27 Useful Downloads

28 IG Change History

29 Artifacts Summary

29.1 LogicalPatient

29.2 TestPatientProfile

29.3 LogicalPatientMap

29.4 Example Patient - 47234

29.5 Example Patient - 689272

29.6 Example Patient - 2451

29.7 Example Patient - 562

29.8 Example patient

29.9 null (Bundle)

29.10 null (Bundle)

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