Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Persuasive with Modification
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Medium
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US Minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE) (FHIR)
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1.0.0 [deprecated]
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Clinical Interoperability Council
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(many)
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Russ Leftwich / May Terry: 5-0-1
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Enhancement
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Non-compatible
Description
The most important type of conformance-related statements are missing from the IG, namely, ones that require the use mCODE profiles.
This type of requirement has the form: If resource type = R and R.code = X, the instance SHALL conform to Y, where Y is a FHIR profile. An example is where:
- R = Observation
- X = LOINC code 88040-1
- Y = the mCODE CancerDiseaseStatus profile
The mCODE IG should explicitly list every such requirement.
As it stands, practically any system could be judged mCODE compliant, even if that system fails to adopt mCODE profiles, because the mCODE IG never explicitly spells out situations where mCODE profiles must be used.