National Healthcare Directory Exchange
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National Healthcare Directory Exchange, published by HL7 Patient Administration Working Group. This is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0-ballot). This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-directory-exchange/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## Conformance

## Validated Healthcare Directory Conformance Requirements

This section outlines conformance requirements for the Validated Healthcare Directory and Client applications, identifying the specific profiles that need to be supported, the specific RESTful operations that need to be supported, and the search parameters that need to be supported.

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### Conformance requirements for the Validated Healthcare Directory

1. FHIR Version: 4.0
2. Supported formats: xml, json
3. Published: Draft
4. Published by: Health Level Seven International the Patient Administration Workgroup and the HL7 US Realm Steering Committee.

This section describes the expected capabilities of the Validated Healthcare Directory actor that is responsible for providing responses to the queries submitted by the Validated Healthcare Directory Requestors. The complete list of FHIR profiles, RESTful operations, and search parameters supported by Validated Healthcare Directory are defined.

#### Behavior

Description:

The Validated Healthcare Directory responder SHALL:

1. Support the Validated Healthcare Directory resource profiles.
2. Implement the RESTful behavior according to the FHIR specification.
3. Return the following response classes:
   - (Status 200): successful operation
   - (Status 400): invalid parameter
   - (Status 401/4xx): unauthorized request
   - (Status 403): insufficient scope
   - (Status 404): unknown resource
   - (Status 410): deleted resource.
4. Support json resource formats for all Validated Healthcare Directory interactions.
5. Declare a CapabilityStatement identifying the list of profiles, operations, search parameter supported.

The Validated Healthcare Directory responder SHOULD:

1. Support xml resource formats for all Validated Healthcare Directory interactions.
2. Identify the Validated Healthcare Directory profiles supported as part of the FHIR `meta.profile` attribute for each instance.

#### Security:

The Validated Healthcare Directorys responder SHALL:

1. Implement the security requirements documented in the this IG.
2. A server has ensured that every API request includes a valid Authorization token, supplied via: `Authorization: Bearer {server-specific-token-here}`
3. A server has rejected any unauthorized requests by returning an `HTTP 401` Unauthorized response code.

#### Profile Interaction Summary:

1. All servers SHALL make available the read and search interactions for all the Profiles.
2. All servers SHOULD make available the vread and history-instance interactions for all the Profiles.

#### Summary of Validated Healthcare Directory search criteria:

Specific server search capabilities are under analysis.

#### Resource Details: