Change record: ASTP/ONC approves USCDI v6 through the 2026 SVAP
The 2026 SVAP approved USCDI v6 as a voluntary standards advancement path beginning August 29, 2026, while the HTI-1 certification baseline remains USCDI v3.
What changed
The 2026 SVAP approved USCDI v6 as a voluntary standards advancement path beginning August 29, 2026, while the HTI-1 certification baseline remains USCDI v3.
This entry preserves the event separately from maintained provider and capability conclusions. A rule, announcement, release, enforcement record, or market transaction can be material before enough evidence exists to revise a company classification or comparison.
Operating consequence
Developers and buyers need separate records for the mandatory baseline, voluntarily advanced version, and version actually deployed in a customer environment.
Teams should identify which records, populations, systems, transactions, jurisdictions, products, or decisions fall within the change. Then assign an accountable owner, response date, evidence requirement, and disposition. Broad reassessment is not always necessary, but a material event deserves a documented decision.
Capabilities to revisit
FHIR Profile And Implementation-Guide Support
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for FHIR profile and implementation-guide support.
Terminology Normalization And Value-Set Management
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for terminology normalization and value-set management.
Conformance Testing And Validation
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for conformance testing and validation.
Data Quality, Lineage, And Provenance
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for data quality, lineage, and provenance.
Questions for operating teams
- Which exact population and effective date does the source establish?
- Does the change alter authority, policy, content, workflow, integration, evidence, or only market positioning?
- What customer-controlled interpretation, configuration, or process remains outside a provider's responsibility?
- What test case would show whether the operational consequence has reached production?
- What record will close, defer, or supersede this review?
Evidence boundary
The source class is Federal certification-program publication. It establishes only the statements supported by the linked record and does not, by itself, establish implementation depth, market-wide availability, transaction-specific applicability, independent efficacy, or a universal buyer conclusion.