Bulk Data Access IG
1.1.0 - STU 2 Ballot

This page is part of the FHIR Bulk Data Access (Flat FHIR) (v1.1.0: STU 2 (FHIR R4) Ballot 1) based on FHIR R4. The current version which supercedes this version is 1.0.1. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

: FHIR Bulk Data System Level Export - JSON Representation

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