Naming Convention Examples

Product Names

HL7 FHIRPath R2

HL7 FHIR® R5

HL7 CDA® R2

The V2.X product family has special rules for naming due to historical reasons:

HL7 V2 V2.9.1

Specification Names

HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: C-CDA R2.1 Supplemental Templates for Pregnancy Status, Edition 1 - US Realm

HL7 EHRS-FM R2 Functional Profile: Child Health Functional Profile R1; Developmental Screening and Reporting Services Derived Profile, Edition 2 - US Realm 

HL7 FHIR® R4 Profile: Quality, Edition 1 - US Realm

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: FAST National Directory for Healthcare (NDH), Edition 1 - US Realm

HL7 V2 V2.7.1 Implementation Guide: Message Transformations with OASIS Tracking of Emergency Patients (TEP), Edition 1 

HL7 V3 Standard: Pharmacovigilance - Individual Case Safety Report, Part 1: The Framework for Adverse Event Reporting, Edition 2

HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Biomedical Research Integrated Domain,  Edition 5.3

HL7 Service Functional Model: Care Coordination Service (CCS), Edition 1

The following specification is not specific to a release of FHIR, so it does include the FHIR release number:

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: SMART Application Launch Framework, Edition 2 

The following specification does not fit in to a product family, so there is no family product name part:

HL7 EHR-System Usability Conformance Criteria,  Edition 1 

The following specifications show how multiple specifications that are published in different product families can be named similarly:

HL7 Cross Paradigm Implementation Guide: Gender Harmony - Sex and Gender Representation, Edition 1

HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Gender Harmony - Sex and Gender Representation, Edition 1 

NOTES: Ballot level information may be provided as metadata distinct from the name, but shall not be part of the name.

Ballot title may include

• • Reaffirmation of...
  • Withdrawal of...

Example ballot titles may be:

• HL7 FHIR® R5 (metadata, 1st Normative Ballot, PI ID 891)
• HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: C-CDA R2.1 Supplemental Templates for Pregnancy Status, Edition 1 - US Realm (metadata, 2nd STU Ballot, PI ID 1398)
• Reaffirmation of HL7 CDA® R2.1
• HL7 FHIR® R4 IG: SMART Application Launch Framework, Edition 3 (metadata, 4th STU Ballot, PI ID 1341)