HL7 FHIR Release 5
FHIR R5 is HL7's current overall published release and adds substantial content beyond R4. HL7 labels the release trial use while individual artifacts can have their own standards status.
What the authority record establishes
FHIR R5 is HL7's current overall published release and adds substantial content beyond R4. HL7 labels the release trial use while individual artifacts can have their own standards status.
Voluntary unless adopted by another authority or agreement; not the general current U.S. regulatory API baseline
The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.
Why it matters to this market
The newest overall release and the dominant regulatory implementation baseline are not the same thing. Buyers need an explicit version-transition plan rather than treating current FHIR as one undifferentiated feature.
Affected operating stages
- Roadmap Planning
- Data Model Evaluation
- Inter-Version Mapping
- Implementation-Guide Dependency Review
- Migration Testing
Capabilities to examine
FHIR Server And Repository
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for FHIR server and repository.
FHIR API Gateway And Orchestration
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for FHIR API gateway and orchestration.
FHIR Profile And Implementation-Guide Support
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for FHIR profile and implementation-guide support.
Terminology Normalization And Value-Set Management
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for terminology normalization and value-set management.
Conformance Testing And Validation
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for conformance testing and validation.
Data Quality, Lineage, And Provenance
Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for data quality, lineage, and provenance.
Affected buyer audiences
- FHIR platform teams
- standards architects
- health IT developers
- data-model stewards
- migration leaders
Implementation questions
- Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
- What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
- Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
- Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
- How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?
Interpretation boundary
Current-published status for FHIR R5 does not mean every U.S. certification criterion, payer API, product, or implementation guide has moved from R4.