HL7 v2.6
Published October 2007 · successor to HL7 v2.5
What's changed in v2.6
Changes from v2.5 to v2.6
2112
Total Changes
159
Segments Affected
33
Data Types Affected
387
New Fields
Abstract
10 changes
Accident
6 changes
Adjustment
15 changes
Appointment Information - General Resource
9 changes
Appointment Information - Location Resource
8 changes
Appointment Information - Personnel Resource
7 changes
Appointment Information
11 changes
Patient Allergy Information
7 changes
Appointment Request
10 changes
Access Restriction
6 changes
Authorization Information
8 changes
Batch Header
5 changes
Blood Code
1 change
Blood product order
9 changes
Blood product dispense status
10 changes
Blood Product Transfusion/Disposition
12 changes
Charge Description Master
7 changes
Certificate Detail
17 changes
Clinical Study Master
3 changes
Clinical Study Phase Master
2 changes
Clinical Study Schedule Master
3 changes
Clear Notification
10 changes
Consent Segment
19 changes
Clinical Study Phase
9 changes
Clinical Study Registration
36 changes
Clinical Study Data Schedule Segment
9 changes
Contact Data
6 changes
Clinical Trial Identification
6 changes
Disability
1 change
Diagnosis
32 changes
DRG Master File Information
5 changes
Diagnosis Related Group
26 changes
Equipment Command
2 changes
Equipment Command Response
4 changes
Educational Detail
1 change
Embedded Query Language
4 changes
Equipment/log Service
6 changes
Equipment Detail
9 changes
Event replay query
3 changes
Error
2 changes
Event Type
7 changes
Facility
10 changes
File Header
4 changes
Financial Transaction
22 changes
Goal Detail
29 changes
Grouping/Reimbursement - Procedure Line Item
1 change
Guarantor
25 changes
Patient Adverse Reaction Information
19 changes
Inventory Item Master
10 changes
Material Lot
10 changes
Insurance
17 changes
Insurance Additional Information
26 changes
Insurance Additional Information, Certification
9 changes
Inventory Detail
32 changes
Imaging Procedure Control Segment
8 changes
Invoice Processing Results
8 changes
Interaction Status Detail
5 changes
Material Item
29 changes
Invoice Segment
30 changes
Material Location
26 changes
Language Detail
3 changes
Location Charge Code
3 changes
Location Characteristic
4 changes
Location Department
8 changes
Location Identification
1 change
Location Relationship
1 change
Master File Acknowledgment
3 changes
Master File Entry
4 changes
Master File Identification
6 changes
Merge Patient Information
3 changes
Message Acknowledgment
7 changes
Message Header
9 changes
System Clock
2 changes
Notification Detail
7 changes
Next of Kin / Associated Parties
27 changes
Bed Status Update
1 change
Application control level statistics
4 changes
Notes and Comments
5 changes
Observation Request
88 changes
Observation/Result
28 changes
Dietary Orders, Supplements, and Preferences
7 changes
Diet Tray Instructions
4 changes
General Segment
23 changes
Numeric Observation
3 changes
Categorical Service/Test/Observation
7 changes
Observations that Require Specimens
3 changes
Observation Batteries (Sets)
2 changes
Additional Basic Attributes
20 changes
Common Order
21 changes
Practitioner Organization Unit
6 changes
Patient Charge Cost Center Exceptions
4 changes
Possible Causal Relationship
33 changes
Patient Additional Demographic
12 changes
Patient Death and Autopsy
4 changes
Product Detail Country
16 changes
Product Experience Observation
28 changes
Product Experience Sender
11 changes
Patient Identification
36 changes
Item Packaging
7 changes
Payment Information
12 changes
Procedures
33 changes
Practitioner Detail
5 changes
Problem Details
39 changes
Pricing
11 changes
Provider Data
15 changes
Product/Service Group
6 changes
Product Summary Header
13 changes
Product/Service Line Item
48 changes
Product/Service Section
5 changes
Pathway
9 changes
Patient Visit
10 changes
Patient Visit - Additional Information
34 changes
Payee Information
7 changes
Query Acknowledgment
2 changes
Query Identification
1 change
Query Parameter Definition
1 change
Original-Style Query Definition
6 changes
Original style query filter
6 changes
Query Response Instance
1 change
Response Control Parameter
4 changes
Clinical Relationship Segment
16 changes
Referral Information
19 changes
Request for Information
4 changes
Resource Group
1 change
Risk Management Incident
4 changes
Role
10 changes
Requisition Detail-1
4 changes
Requisition Detail
11 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Administration
29 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Component Order
9 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Dispense
28 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Encoded Order
31 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Give
27 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Order
32 changes
Pharmacy/Treatment Route
5 changes
Specimen Container detail
59 changes
Anti-Microbial Cycle Data
37 changes
Scheduling Activity Information
11 changes
Sterilizer Configuration Segment
8 changes
Sterilization Device Data
7 changes
Software Segment
2 changes
Substance Identifier
6 changes
Sterilization Lot
5 changes
Specimen
27 changes
Stored Procedure Request Definition
4 changes
Staff Identification
22 changes
Sterilization Parameter
4 changes
Test Code Configuration
15 changes
Test Code Detail
8 changes
Timing/Quantity
7 changes
Transcription Document Header
14 changes
User Authentication Credential Segment
2 changes
UB82
49 changes
UB92 Data
10 changes
Results/update Definition
4 changes
Unsolicited Selection
6 changes
Variance
6 changes
Purchasing Vendor
5 changes
Virtual Table Query Request
5 changes
Charge Code and Date
2 changes
Channel Definition
2 changes
Coded Element
20 changes
Composite Price
2 changes
Composite Quantity with Units
2 changes
Extended Composite ID with Check Digit
2 changes
Date and Institution Name
4 changes
Discharge to Location and Date
5 changes
Driver's License Number
1 change
Date/Time Range
4 changes
Encapsulated Data
4 changes
Error Location and Description
2 changes
Financial Class
2 changes
Family Name
2 changes
Hierarchic Designator
1 change
Insurance Certification Definition
2 changes
Multiplexed Array
6 changes
Money and Code
2 changes
Name with Date and Location
4 changes
Practitioner Institutional Privileges
4 changes
Performing Person Time Stamp
9 changes
Parent Result Link
2 changes
Reference Pointer
5 changes
Scheduling Class Value Pair
1 change
String Data
1 change
Timing Quantity
6 changes
Time Stamp
7 changes
Version Identifier
2 changes
Extended Address
14 changes
Extended Composite ID Number and Name for Persons
8 changes
Extended Composite Name and Identification Number for Organizations
2 changes
Extended Person Name
7 changes
Extended Telecommunication Number
10 changes
Most used in v2.6
Structural usage across the specification — not popularity, arithmetic.