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Obligations

Overview

Obligations are a mean offered by HL7 FHIR to specify functional capabilities that defined actors MAY, SHOULD or SHALL to the data elements specified by the profiles.

The current choice has been that of defining the obligation in StructureDefinitions distinct from those used for defining the structural constraints.

This page describes also the actors that have been used for specifying the obligations.

Actors

This version of this guide adopts the actors specified by the Xt-EHR joint action:

• the Consumer: a system that receives electronic health data originating from another system and processes or displays that data. In this role, the system is responsible for ingesting and validating the received data and for preserving the meaning, structure, and associated metadata of the information in accordance with the applicable Consumer obligations, ensuring correct interpretation and presentation to end users or other systems.

• the Producer: a system that generates or makes available structured electronic health data for exchange. In this role, the system is responsible for being technically capable of populating the relevant data elements in accordance with the applicable “able-to-populate” obligations and for associating the required metadata, such as authorship, provenance, status, and temporal information, before the data are made available to downstream systems.

Obligations List