Conformance

Conformance Language

This specification uses the conformance verbs SHALL, SHOULD, and MAY as defined in RFC 2119.

• SHALL: Indicates requirements that must be met to be conformant with the specification.
• SHOULD: Indicates requirements that are strongly recommended (and which could result in interoperability issues if not adhered to), but which do not, for this version of the specification, affect the determination of specification conformance.
• MAY: Describes optional requirements that implementers are free to consider but where there is no recommendation for or against adoption.

A patient summary submitted SHALL be well-formed and conform with this specification including conformance to business rules and data curation.

Patient summary contributors SHALL use a PoS that has passed Alberta Health conformance, and the authoring provider SHALL be registered with Alberta Health to participate in this service.