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This Implementation Guide serves as a technical specification for implementing FHIR in order to interact with the VPP Community ODS. Sufficient business rationale is provided to illustrate the scenarios that the specification aims to fulfill. Storyboards, interactions, vocabulary, data types, object identifiers (URIs), and FHIR examples are included to facilitate the implementation process.

MERGE THIS PARAGRAPH: This document provides guidance for implementations supporting HL7 FHIR® to query records from the VPP Community ODS. It includes business context, use cases and business rules, as well as FHIR profiles including structure definitions (XML and JSON), operations, examples (XML and JSON), terminologies, identifiers, and conformance requirements for consuming data using HL7 FHIR®.

FHIR Version

This Implementation Guide is FHIR 4.0.1 conformant.

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