<status value="draft"/> <experimental value="false"/> <date value="2026-08-07"/> <publisher value="HL7 International - Public Health Work Group"/> <contact> <telecom> <system value="url"/> <value value="http://hl7.org/Special/committees/pher"/> </telecom> </contact> <description value="Expectations of a Death Record Source, or of an intermediary relaying on its behalf, that sends fact-of-death notifications. A sender SHALL be able to send an initial notification. Support for corrections and retractions is strongly encouraged: a jurisdiction that can only ever assert a death, and never revise or withdraw that assertion, leaves receivers unable to repair a record they wrongly marked as deceased."/> <jurisdiction> <coding> <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/> <code value="US"/> </coding> </jurisdiction> <kind value="requirements"/> <fhirVersion value="4.0.1"/> <format value="json"/> <format value="xml"/> <messaging> <documentation value="Notifications are sent as FHIR messages conforming to the Fact of Death Notification Bundle. Where a receiver supports acknowledgement, the sender receives a Fact of Death Acknowledgement Bundle carrying the same event code and referencing the notification through MessageHeader.response.identifier."/> <supportedMessage> <mode value="sender"/> <definition value="http://example.org/fhir/us/fod/MessageDefinition/fod-notification"/> </supportedMessage> <supportedMessage> <mode value="sender"/> <definition value="http://example.org/fhir/us/fod/MessageDefinition/fod-correction"/> </supportedMessage> <supportedMessage> <mode value="sender"/> <definition value="http://example.org/fhir/us/fod/MessageDefinition/fod-void"/> </supportedMessage> </messaging> </CapabilityStatement>

Generated Narrative: CapabilityStatement fod-sender

Fact of Death Sender Capability Statement

Implementation Guide Version: 0.2.0
FHIR Version: 4.0.1
Supported Formats: json, xml
Published on: 2026-08-07
Published by: HL7 International - Public Health Work Group

Note to Implementers: FHIR Capabilities
Any FHIR capability may be 'allowed' by the system unless explicitly marked as 'SHALL NOT'. A few items are marked as MAY in the Implementation Guide to highlight their potential relevance to the use case.

FHIR Messaging Capabilities

Messaging Capability

Supported Message(s)

Mode	Definition
sender	Fact of Death Notification Message
sender	Fact of Death Correction Message
sender	Fact of Death Void Message

Documentation

Notifications are sent as FHIR messages conforming to the Fact of Death Notification Bundle. Where a receiver supports acknowledgement, the sender receives a Fact of Death Acknowledgement Bundle carrying the same event code and referencing the notification through MessageHeader.response.identifier.