FHIR Clinical Documents
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FHIR Clinical Documents, published by HL7 International / Structured Documents. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.1 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-clinical-document/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Extension: Change Made (Experimental)

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/fhir-clinical-document/StructureDefinition/ChangeMade Version: 1.0.1
Standards status: Informative Active as of 2025-12-22 Computable Name: ChangeMade

Copyright/Legal: Used by permission of HL7 International, all rights reserved Creative Commons License

Change Made provides an annotation of a change that has been made to the Composition or Composition section. The extension is experimental and may overlap with other extensions, such as use of note in R6. The extension contains two parts: change - the description of the change, version-changed - the FHIR Clinical Document version that was changed. Note: Calculating a differential between versions is suggested for safely finding all changes as this annotation may not contain all changes between versions.

Context of Use

    This extension may be used on the following element(s)

Usage info

Usages:

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Formal Views of Extension Content

Description Differentials, Snapshots, and other representations.

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: Filtersdoco
.. Extension 0..* Extension Change Made
... extension 2..* Extension Extension
... Slices for extension Content/Rules for all slices
.... extension:change 1..1 Extension Annotation of a change.
..... extension 0..0 Extension
..... url 1..1 uri "change"
..... value[x] 1..1 Annotation Value of extension
.... extension:version-changed 1..1 Extension Version of Document Bundle produced by preceeding version of Compsition. This points to the Document Bundle and not the Composition, as the Document Bundle represents a static document. Intermediate versioning changes to Composition are expected to be handled in a different manner.
..... extension 0..0 Extension
..... url 1..1 uri "version-changed"
..... value[x] 1..1 Reference(Bundle) Value of extension
... url 1..1 uri "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/fhir-clinical-document/StructureDefinition/ChangeMade"

doco Documentation for this format
NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: Filtersdoco
.. Extension 0..* Extension Change Made
... id 0..1 string Unique id for inter-element referencing
... Slices for extension 2..* Extension Extension
Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url
.... extension:change 1..1 Extension Annotation of a change.
..... id 0..1 string Unique id for inter-element referencing
..... extension 0..0 Extension
Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url
..... url 1..1 uri "change"
..... value[x] 1..1 Annotation Value of extension
.... extension:version-changed 1..1 Extension Version of Document Bundle produced by preceeding version of Compsition. This points to the Document Bundle and not the Composition, as the Document Bundle represents a static document. Intermediate versioning changes to Composition are expected to be handled in a different manner.
..... id 0..1 string Unique id for inter-element referencing
..... extension 0..0 Extension
Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url
..... url 1..1 uri "version-changed"
..... value[x] 1..1 Reference(Bundle) Value of extension
... url 1..1 uri "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/fhir-clinical-document/StructureDefinition/ChangeMade"

doco Documentation for this format

Constraints

Id Grade Path(s) Description Expression
ele-1 error **ALL** elements All FHIR elements must have a @value or children hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())
ext-1 error **ALL** extensions Must have either extensions or value[x], not both extension.exists() != value.exists()

Summary

Complex Extension: Change Made provides an annotation of a change that has been made to the Composition or Composition section. The extension is experimental and may overlap with other extensions, such as use of note in R6. The extension contains two parts: change - the description of the change, version-changed - the FHIR Clinical Document version that was changed. Note: Calculating a differential between versions is suggested for safely finding all changes as this annotation may not contain all changes between versions.

  • change: Annotation: An Extension
  • version-changed: Reference: An Extension

Differential ViewDifferential View

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: Filtersdoco
.. Extension 0..* Extension Change Made
... extension 2..* Extension Extension
... Slices for extension Content/Rules for all slices
.... extension:change 1..1 Extension Annotation of a change.
..... extension 0..0 Extension
..... url 1..1 uri "change"
..... value[x] 1..1 Annotation Value of extension
.... extension:version-changed 1..1 Extension Version of Document Bundle produced by preceeding version of Compsition. This points to the Document Bundle and not the Composition, as the Document Bundle represents a static document. Intermediate versioning changes to Composition are expected to be handled in a different manner.
..... extension 0..0 Extension
..... url 1..1 uri "version-changed"
..... value[x] 1..1 Reference(Bundle) Value of extension
... url 1..1 uri "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/fhir-clinical-document/StructureDefinition/ChangeMade"

doco Documentation for this format

Snapshot View

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: Filtersdoco
.. Extension 0..* Extension Change Made
... id 0..1 string Unique id for inter-element referencing
... Slices for extension 2..* Extension Extension
Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url
.... extension:change 1..1 Extension Annotation of a change.
..... id 0..1 string Unique id for inter-element referencing
..... extension 0..0 Extension
Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url
..... url 1..1 uri "change"
..... value[x] 1..1 Annotation Value of extension
.... extension:version-changed 1..1 Extension Version of Document Bundle produced by preceeding version of Compsition. This points to the Document Bundle and not the Composition, as the Document Bundle represents a static document. Intermediate versioning changes to Composition are expected to be handled in a different manner.
..... id 0..1 string Unique id for inter-element referencing
..... extension 0..0 Extension
Slice: Unordered, Open by value:url
..... url 1..1 uri "version-changed"
..... value[x] 1..1 Reference(Bundle) Value of extension
... url 1..1 uri "http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/fhir-clinical-document/StructureDefinition/ChangeMade"

doco Documentation for this format

Constraints

Id Grade Path(s) Description Expression
ele-1 error **ALL** elements All FHIR elements must have a @value or children hasValue() or (children().count() > id.count())
ext-1 error **ALL** extensions Must have either extensions or value[x], not both extension.exists() != value.exists()

Summary

Complex Extension: Change Made provides an annotation of a change that has been made to the Composition or Composition section. The extension is experimental and may overlap with other extensions, such as use of note in R6. The extension contains two parts: change - the description of the change, version-changed - the FHIR Clinical Document version that was changed. Note: Calculating a differential between versions is suggested for safely finding all changes as this annotation may not contain all changes between versions.

  • change: Annotation: An Extension
  • version-changed: Reference: An Extension

 

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