Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Medium
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FHIR Core (FHIR)
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R6
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Clinical Decision Support
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DetectedIssue
Description
The binding strength for DetectedIssue.severity to the https://hl7.org/fhir/6.0.0-ballot1/valueset-detectedissue-severity.html value set should be lowered from "required" to either "extensible" or "preferred". This value set contains only 3 severity levels (low, moderate, high), but for some use cases for DetectedIssue, there are more than 3 severity levels. Health systems often filter out results by severity level, so if there are in fact 5 severity levels, then it's important for all 5 levels to be represented in DetectedIssue.severity. Otherwise, there will be too many or too few alerts.