Templates


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Mission

This group supports the HL7 mission to create and promote its standards by creating the procedures for creation and management of HL7 Templates. An HL7 template is a registered expression of a set of constraints on a balloted RIM derived model.

Charter

Work Products and Contributions to HL7 Processes

The Templates Work Group will:

  • create normative standards for the definition of HL7 templates.
  • define the procedures for administering a meta-data repository or template registry to serve as the home for templates defined by HL7 bodies, HL7 members, and other parties
  • develop procedures and educational material to guide interested parties in the development and register HL7 templates

  • Formal Relationships With Other HL7 Groups

    The Work Group will have close, ongoing relationships with the following HL7 Work Groups:

  • Vocabulary Work Group to ensure that template data structures make proper and consistent use of vocabulary domains.
  • Modeling and Methodology Work Group to ensure that the rules for creating templates are consistent with those for other HL7 artifacts.
  • Attachments Work Group to ensure that the rules for creating templates are consistent with those used for claims attachments used within the HIPAA context.
  • Structured Documents Work Group to ensure that the rules for creating templates are consistent with the rules for creating HL7 structured documents.

  • Formal Relationship With Groups Outside of HL7

    None at this time

    Decision Making Practices

    Decision Making Practices

    Date of Last Revision

    March 25, 2011