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A Question was asked regarding FormatCode granularity, especially given that the IHE defined FormatCode vocabulary seem to be defining much smaller concept relative to HL7 defined FormatCode for C-CDA . Where the combined list is available in FHIR as a ValueSet of FormatCodes (updated in current build ) Important background ::  Eating an Elephant -- How to approach IHE documentation on Health Information Exchange (HIE)  and  Healthcare Metadata The FormatCode is there to differentiate 'technical format'. It is a further technical distinction more refined than the mime-type. So it is related to mime-type. FormatCode is not a replacement for class or type. In fact it is very possible to have the exact same type of content available in Multiple-Formats . Including FHIR Documents in XDS It is true that IHE defined FormatCodes tend to be one-per-Profile, where as all of C-CDA R2.1 is one FormatCode. This difference in scope seems like a very big difference, but is at the te...