2026 US Quality Core Implementation Guide
0.5.0 - cibuild US

2026 US Quality Core Implementation Guide, published by Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.5.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/FHIR/us-quality-core/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## Example ServiceRequest: ServiceRequest example

Profile: US Quality Core ServiceRequest

status: Completed

intent: Order

category: Surgical Procedure

priority: Urgent

code: Excision of appendix (procedure)

subject: Jim Chalmers Male, DoB: 1974-12-25 ( Social Security number (use: usual, period: 2001-05-06 --> (ongoing)))

encounter: Encounter: identifier = http://example.org/encounters#ENC-20130404-appendicitis; status = finished; class = inpatient encounter (v3 Code System ActCode#IMP); type = Initial hospital inpatient or observation care, per day, for the evaluation and management of a patient, which requires a medically appropriate history and/or examination and high level of medical decision making. When using total time on the date of the encounter for code selection, 75 minutes must be met or exceeded.; period = 2013-04-04 18:00:00-0400 --> 2013-04-06 11:00:00-0400

occurrence: 2013-04-05 --> 2013-04-05

asNeeded: true

authoredOn: 2013-04-04

reasonCode: Abdominal pain (finding)

reasonReference: Condition Appendicitis (disorder)

bodySite: Appendix structure