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 Encounter: Encounter example

Profile: US Quality Core Encounter

identifier: `http://example.org/encounters`/ENC-20130404-appendicitis

status: Finished

class: v3 Code System ActCode: IMP (inpatient encounter)

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.

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

period: 2013-04-04 18:00:00-0400 --> 2013-04-06 11:00:00-0400

### Diagnoses

- | Extension | Condition
* |  | Condition Appendicitis (disorder)

### Hospitalizations

- | DischargeDisposition
* | Home

### Locations

- | Location | Status | Period
* | South Wing, second floor | Completed | 2013-04-04 18:00:00-0400 --> 2013-04-06 11:00:00-0400