2026 US Quality Core Implementation Guide
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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 Observation: Delivery date estimated example

Profile: US Quality Core Simple Observation

status: Final

category: exam

code: delivery date estimated

subject: Sarah Hugankiss (official) Female, DoB: 1946-09-25 ( Social Security number (use: usual, period: 1995-05-06 --> (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

effective: 2023-10-22 06:30:00+0500 --> 2023-10-22 08:30:10+0500

issued: 2023-10-22 07:30:10+0500

performer: Practitioner

value: 2024-05-01