Planned Implementation Work Items - 2026

The Trial Use Specification is ready for review by the Stakeholder group and will then be considered ready for implementation. With that in mind, the stakeholder group will continue to refine business rules and to address the following known implementation issues. This work will enhance consistency and provide clarity for implementation of the standard, but these work items are not expected impact the message structures in any significant manner though minor changes may occur.

Implementation work items that are expected to be addressed in 2026, are as follows:

Work Item	Notes
High Cost Drugs - COB Scenarios	If downstream is FHIR and primary is CPHA3 or vice versa
Professional Services - Develop National service code set
Professional Services - Continue to review scenarios and document use cases	Test the message structure
Technical Overview, API Overview, Operations, etc	Review with Stakeholders and finalize
Capability Statements	Overview, discussion, examples of use
Conformance	Is there a desire for implementers to develop a centralized service
Error message profile to streamline	Included in spec, future use
Detected Issues - to return DUR	Included in spec for future use
Terminology	Some code sets and systems need to be finalized. The Maintenance Process should be documented.
Extensions (New fields)	Stakeholder may bring forth extensions for inclusion in the PCS FHIR specification.