Terminology Change Set Exchange
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Terminology Change Set Exchange, published by HL7 International / Terminology Infrastructure. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/termchangeset-ig/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Change Set Exchange

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A use case scenarios for FHIR-based Terminology Change Set Exchange is described below and illustrated in a sequence diagram.

Terminology Change Set Exchange Use Case

In this example, a terminology publishing organization is making an incremental change to its extension of SNOMED CT by adding a new extended concept. To enable data exchange with a close trading partner that makes use of this extended concept, this publishing organization shares a Terminology Change Set with a the trading partner (the Terminology Consumer identified in the steps below).

  1. Authoring Environment: Terminologist creates a new concept to extend SNOMED CT, exports it as a Terminology Change Set, and posts it to the FHIR server
  2. Terminology Consumer: Requests the Terminology Change Set from the FHIR server
  3. FHIR Server: Delivers the FHIR Resource Bundle requested
  4. Terminology Consumer: Updates the Local Terminology Database with the contents of the Terminology Change Set retrieved
Change Set Interaction Diagram