Digital Referral Prescription Implementation Guide
1.0.0 - STU

Digital Referral Prescription Implementation Guide, published by eHealth Platform. 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-be/referral-uhmep/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## : BeReferralCategory - JSON Representation

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      "title" : "BeReferralCategory",
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      "date" : "2026-02-20T12:35:05+00:00",
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      "description" : "DEMONSTRATIVE EXAMPLE - Codes to define the high level category for a referral prescription. SNOMED-CT codes in this valueset are just a draft proposal to give a general idea - pending an official valueset.",
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      "copyright" : "*   This value set includes content from SNOMED CT, which is copyright © 2002+ International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), and distributed by agreement between IHTSDO and HL7. Implementer use of SNOMED CT is not covered by this agreement\n\n*   The SNOMED International IPS Terminology is distributed by International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, trading as SNOMED International, and is subject the terms of the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). For more information, see [SNOMED IPS Terminology](https://www.snomed.org/snomed-ct/Other-SNOMED-products/international-patient-summary-terminology)\n\n*   The HL7 International IPS implementation guides incorporate SNOMED CT®, used by permission of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, trading as SNOMED International. SNOMED CT was originally created by the College of American Pathologists. SNOMED CT is a registered trademark of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, all rights reserved. Implementers of SNOMED CT should review [usage terms](https://www.snomed.org/get-snomed) or directly contact SNOMED International: info@snomed.org",
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