Digital Pathology Ordering & Workflow (DPOW)
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Digital Pathology Ordering & Workflow (DPOW), published by IHE Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Technical Committee. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0-current built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/IHE/PaLM.DPOW/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Download and Analysis

You can also download:

The source code for this Implementation Guide can be found at github.com/IHE/PaLM.DPOW.

Note: DPOW is an HL7 v2.5.1 messaging profile. It defines no FHIR profiles, capability statements, or examples, so the definition- and example-resource downloads offered by other IHE guides do not apply here. Its only FHIR artifacts are the DPOW case-status CodeSystem and ValueSet, included in the complete-guide download above. The normative content is the HL7 v2 message and segment specifications in Volume 2 and the Volume 2 Appendices.

Cross Version Analysis

This is an R4 IG. None of the features it uses are changed in R4B, so it can be used as is with R4B systems. Packages for both R4 (ihe.palm.dpow.r4) and R4B (ihe.palm.dpow.r4b) are available.

Dependency Table

IGPackageFHIRComment
.. Digital Pathology Ordering & Workflow (DPOW)ihe.palm.dpow#0.1.0-currentR4
... HL7 Terminology (THO)hl7.terminology.r4#7.4.0R4Automatically added as a dependency - all IGs depend on HL7 Terminology
... FHIR Extensions Packhl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.3.0R4Automatically added as a dependency - all IGs depend on the HL7 Extension Pack
... FHIR Tooling Extensions IGhl7.fhir.uv.tools.r4#1.1.2R4for example references

Package hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.3.0

This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Sat, May 16, 2026 18:32+1000+10:00)

Package hl7.fhir.uv.tools.r4#1.1.2

This IG defines the extensions that the tools use internally. Some of these extensions are content that are being evaluated for elevation into the main spec, and others are tooling concerns (built Tue, Mar 24, 2026 11:13+1100+11:00)

Globals Table

There are no Global profiles defined

IP Statements

No use of external IP (other than from the FHIR specification)