FormatCode granularity
I was asked the following question: Confused as to the granularity required for formatCode. The HL7 link seem to be at a course level: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=CDA_Format_Codes_for_IHE_XDS but a recent update has format code at a document specific level: https://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/IHE_Format_Codes This links to FHIR and I assume MHD http://hl7.org/fhir/valueset-formatcodes.html Any advice? ---------------------------------------------------- My response 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. See article: Multiple Formats of same document Including FHIR Document See article on FHIR Documents in XDS It is true that IHE defined FormatCodes tend to be one-per-Profile, where as all of C-CDA R...