Infrastructure Resources

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h2>6.0 Infrastructure Resources

Support

Generally useful resources wherever resources are used
Name	Aliases	Description
List	Collection, WorkingList	A set of information summarized from a list of other resources.
Media		A photo, video, or audio recording acquired or used in healthcare. The actual content may be inline or provided by direct reference.
Other	Z-resource, Extension-resource	Other is a conformant for handling resource concepts not yet defined for FHIR or outside HL7's scope of interest.
Provenance		Provenance information that describes the activity that led to the creation of a set of resources. This information can be used to help determine their reliability or trace where the information in them came from. The focus of the provenance resource is record keeping, audit and traceability, and not explicit statements of clinical significance.
SecurityEvent		A record of an event made for purposes of maintaining a security log. Typical uses include detection of intrusion attempts and monitoring for inappropriate usage.
Binary		Pure Binary Content - opaque to FHIR

Document Handling
Supporting Management
Name	Aliases	Description
Composition		A set of healthcare-related information that is assembled together into a single logical document that provides a single coherent statement of meaning, establishes its own context and that has clinical attestation with regard to who is making the statement.
DocumentReference		A reference to a document.
DocumentManifest		A manifest that defines a set of documents.

Exchange
Used to support the process of exchanging data
Name	Aliases	Description
MessageHeader		The header for a message exchange that is either requesting or responding to an action. The resource(s) that are the subject of the action as well as other Information related to the action are typically transmitted in a bundle in which the MessageHeader resource instance is the first resource in the bundle.
OperationOutcome		A collection of error, warning or information messages that result from a system action.
Query		A description of a query with a set of parameters.

Conformance
Make statements about how resources are used
Name	Aliases	Description
Conformance		A conformance statement is a set of requirements for a desired implementation or a description of how a target application fulfills those requirements in a particular implementation.
Profile	Template	A Resource Profile - a statement of use of one or more FHIR Resources. It may include constraints on Resources and Data Types, Terminology Binding Statements and Extension Definitions.
ValueSet		A value set specifies a set of codes drawn from one or more code systems.
ConceptMap		A statement of relationships from one set of concepts to one or more other concept systems.

Additional Resources will be added in the future. A list of hypothesized resources can be found on the HL7 wiki. Feel free to add any you think are missing or engage with one of the HL7 Work Groups to submit a proposal to define a resource of particular interest.