Candidate Euridice Specification
Overview Current Status
Specification: HL7 Europe Imaging Report
License: CC0 1.0 (Public Domain)
NOTE: This is an early snapshot released for review and pilot use.
Overview
This implementation guide specifies imaging study data in the European context, as defined in eHN Imaging Studies and Reports and refined by Xt-EHR Imaging Logical Model, as a FHIR model. It defines:
- The structure and contents of a FHIR imaging studies and reports.
- Different options for publishing and searching for such studies and reports.
- Discovery of available mechanisms to access the imaging data.
The specification is to be used in a variety of deployment models, which includes the EHDS use cases: exchange data within healthcare organizations, across nations/regions and cross border information exchange. In all of these use cases it is important that it is compatible with the existing ecosystem.
Current approaches within Europe use different approaches to information exchange:
- Document based exchange, the document is represented as a FHIR Document Bundle.
- REST API based access to documents, a Composition and Diagnostic Report for each document including instances of the referred resources
- REST API based access to resources, as the previous but the (important) resources are harmonized, meaning that all documents point to the same Patient, Organization and other resources.
The specification is being designed in such a way that it can be used in all of these deployment scenarios.
Last Official Release:
- https://hl7.eu/fhir/imaging-r5 (2025-05-14, first ballot version) [R5]
- Not Officially released yet (2025-05-14, first ballot version) [R4]
History of published versions (including pre-releases):
- https://hl7.eu/fhir/imaging-r5/history.html [R5]
- Not Officially released yet [R4]
CI-build URL:
Plans: Next Ballot March 2026