HL7 v2.5
Published August 2003 · successor to HL7 v2.4
What's changed in v2.5
Changes from v2.4 to v2.5
2755
Total Changes
115
Segments Affected
248
Data Types Affected
284
New Fields
Abstract
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Accident
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Appointment Information - General Resource
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Appointment Information - Location Resource
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Appointment Information - Personnel Resource
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Appointment Information
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Patient Allergy Information
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Appointment Request
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Authorization Information
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Batch Header
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Blood Code
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Billing
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Blood product order
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Blood product dispense status
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Blood Product Transfusion/Disposition
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Charge Description Master
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Certificate Detail
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Clinical Study Master
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Clinical Study Schedule Master
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Consent Segment
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Clinical Study Registration
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Clinical Study Data Schedule Segment
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Contact Data
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Disability
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Diagnosis
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Diagnosis Related Group
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Equipment Command
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Equipment Command Response
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Educational Detail
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Equipment/log Service
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Equipment Detail
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Error
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Event Type
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File Header
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Financial Transaction
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Grouping/Reimbursement - Procedure Line Item
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Guarantor
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Patient Adverse Reaction Information
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Inventory Item Master
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Insurance
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Insurance Additional Information
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Insurance Additional Information, Certification
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Inventory Detail
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Imaging Procedure Control Segment
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Interaction Status Detail
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Language Detail
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Location Charge Code
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Location Characteristic
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Location Department
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Location Identification
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Location Relationship
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Master File Acknowledgment
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Master File Entry
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Master File Identification
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Message Acknowledgment
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Message Header
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Notification Detail
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Next of Kin / Associated Parties
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Notes and Comments
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Observation Request
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Observation/Result
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Dietary Orders, Supplements, and Preferences
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Diet Tray Instructions
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General Segment
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Numeric Observation
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Categorical Service/Test/Observation
3 changes
Observations that Require Specimens
2 changes
Observation Batteries (Sets)
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Observations that are Calculated from Other Observations
1 change
Additional Basic Attributes
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Common Order
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Practitioner Organization Unit
8 changes
Override Segment
5 changes
Possible Causal Relationship
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Patient Additional Demographic
2 changes
Product Experience Sender
1 change
Patient Identification
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Procedures
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Practitioner Detail
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Pricing
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Provider Data
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Product Summary Header
2 changes
Patient Visit
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Patient Visit - Additional Information
10 changes
Query Acknowledgment
2 changes
Query Identification
1 change
Query Parameter Definition
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Original-Style Query Definition
1 change
Query Response Instance
1 change
Response Control Parameter
1 change
Table Row Data
1 change
Referral Information
6 changes
Risk Management Incident
2 changes
Role
4 changes
Requisition Detail-1
1 change
Pharmacy/Treatment Administration
7 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Component Order
2 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Dispense
9 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Encoded Order
17 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Give
8 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Order
5 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Route
5 changes
Specimen Container detail
17 changes
Scheduling Activity Information
7 changes
Software Segment
6 changes
Substance Identifier
1 change
Specimen
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Staff Identification
29 changes
Test Code Configuration
3 changes
Test Code Detail
1 change
Timing/Quantity
14 changes
Timing/Quantity Relationship
10 changes
UB82
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UB92 Data
16 changes
Results/update Definition
1 change
Address
18 changes
Authorization Information
6 changes
Charge Code and Date
6 changes
Channel Calibration Parameters
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Channel Definition
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Coded Element
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Coded Element with Formatted Values
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composite ID with check digit
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composite ID number and name
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Coded with No Exceptions
24 changes
Composite ID Number and Name Simplified
30 changes
Composite Price
13 changes
Composite Quantity with Units
4 changes
Channel Sensitivity
22 changes
Coded with Exceptions
23 changes
Extended Composite ID with Check Digit
21 changes
Daily Deductible Information
8 changes
Date and Institution Name
7 changes
Discharge Location and Date
7 changes
Driver_s License Number
8 changes
Delta
10 changes
Date/Time Range
4 changes
Date
2 changes
Date/Time
1 change
Day Type and Number
7 changes
Encapsulated Data
14 changes
Entity Identifier
11 changes
Entity Identifier Pair
4 changes
Error Location and Description
9 changes
Error Location
6 changes
Financial Class
5 changes
Family Name
11 changes
Formatted Text Data
2 changes
General Timing Specification
1 change
Hierarchic Designator
8 changes
Insurance Certification Definition
3 changes
Coded Value for HL7 Defined Tables
1 change
Coded Value for User-Defined Tables
2 changes
Job Code/Class
5 changes
Location with Address Variation 1
25 changes
Location with Address Variation 2
41 changes
Multiplexed Array
12 changes
Money
4 changes
Money and Code
4 changes
Money or Percentage
9 changes
Message Type
12 changes
Numeric Array
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Name with Date and Location
29 changes
Numeric
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Numeric Range
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Occurrence Code and Date
8 changes
Order Sequence Definition
32 changes
Occurrence Span Code and Date
11 changes
Pre-certification required
3 changes
person identifier
3 changes
Practitioner Institutional Privileges
13 changes
Person Location
29 changes
Practitioner License or Other ID Number
11 changes
person name
6 changes
Performing Person Time Stamp
55 changes
Parent Result Link
7 changes
Processing Type
6 changes
Policy Type and Amount
11 changes
Query Input Parameter List
6 changes
Query Selection Criteria
10 changes
Row Column Definition
8 changes
Reference Range
17 changes
Repeat Interval
5 changes
Room Coverage
11 changes
Reference Pointer
10 changes
Repeat Pattern
11 changes
Street Address
6 changes
Scheduling Class Value Pair
5 changes
Sequence ID
2 changes
Structured Numeric
8 changes
Specialty Description
10 changes
Specimen Source
24 changes
Sort Order
6 changes
String Data
2 changes
Time
2 changes
telephone number
1 change
Timing Quantity
25 changes
Time Stamp
9 changes
Text Data
1 change
challenge information
2 changes
UB Value Code and Amount
8 changes
Varies
1 change
Visiting Hours
10 changes
Version Identifier
8 changes
Value Range
4 changes
Channel Identifier
3 changes
Waveform Source
5 changes
Extended Address
32 changes
Extended Composite ID Number and Name for Persons
55 changes
Extended Composite Name and Identification Number for Organizations
26 changes
Extended Person Name
32 changes
Extended Telecommunication Number
23 changes
Most used in v2.5
Structural usage across the specification — not popularity, arithmetic.