Decision Making Practices Documents

The decision making practice documents for the various organizing bodies in HL7 can be found below. Unless otherwise noted in the Work Group Specific Decision Making Practices below, all Work Groups fall under the Default Decision Making Practices.

Default Decision Making Practices

Default HL7 WG DMP V4.0 (36 KB)

Generic HL7 WG DMP V4.0 (37 KB)

Default HL7 WG DMP V3.0 (78 KB)

The Work Group Default DMP is designed to be adopted as-is by any workgroup that does not need any changes. It is a constrained version of the Generic DMP Template.

Generic HL7 WG DMP V3.0 (129 KB)

The Generic DMP Template is designed to be adopted with by workgroups that want to apply specific changes applicable to their group. This includes any closed membership workgroups.

Generic HL7 WG DMP V2.0 (archived) (109 KB)

Generic HL7 WG DMP V1.0 (archived) (85 KB)

Work Group Specific Decision Making Practices

Anesthesia (107 KB)

Application Implementation and Design (39 KB)

Architectural Review (39 KB)

Arden Syntax (82 KB)

Attachments (42 KB)

Biomedical Research and Regulation (83 KB)

Clinical Decision Support (84 KB)

Clinical Genomics (97 KB)

Clinical Interoperability Council (43 KB)

Clinical Quality Information (35 KB)

Clinical Statement (85 KB)

Community Based Collaborative Care

Conformance (78 KB)

Domain Experts Steering Division (44 KB)

Education (43 KB)

Electronic Health Records (38 KB)

Electronic Services and Tools (41 KB)

Emergency Care

FHIR Infrastructure (43 KB)

Financial Management (83 KB)

Foundation and Technology Steering Division

Health Care Devices (79 KB)

Imaging Integration (50 KB)

Implementable Technology Specifications (78 KB)

Infrastructure and Messaging (43 KB)

International Council (49 KB)

Learning Health Systems (36 KB)

Mobile Health (45 KB)

Modeling and Methodology (82 KB)

Orders and Observations (47 KB)

Patient Administration (42 KB)

Patient Care (42 KB)

Pharmacy (36 KB)

Policy Advisory Committee (113 KB)

Process Improvement (39 KB)

Project Services (39 KB)

Public Health and Emergency Response (90 KB)

Publishing (37 KB)

Security (34 KB)

Services Oriented Architecture (104 KB)

Standards Goverance Board (37 KB)

Structure and Semantic Design Steering Division (29 KB)

Structured Documents (86 KB)

Technical and Support Services Steering Division

Technical Steering Committee

Templates (122 KB)

Vocabulary (80 KB)

Best Practices Documents

These documents provide collections of non-normative recommended best practices, descriptions of common mistakes, and implementation reminders for application developers to consider when creating HL7 Standards compliant applications.

Best Practices Documents

HL7 Context Management "CCOW" Standard: Best Practices and Common Mistakes, Version 1.0, May 2006 (121 KB)