Short Description: This guide specifies a set of rules to be applied to HL7 FHIR to define how to represent a Laboratory Report in the European Context, coherently with the European eHN Guidelines and the Xt-EHR logical model.
This Implementation Guide applies to laboratory reports within the core fields of in-vitro diagnostics, for example clinical biochemistry, haematology, immunohematology, microbiology, immunology, while leaving out some specialised laboratory domains like histopathology or medical genetics. This version focuses only on common rules that apply to all the in-scope situations, without specifying specialized domain-specific profiles, as for example microbiology profiles.
This guide is not limited to test results performed by clinical laboratories on Human specimens (from human subject), but it considers also results on non-human materials or living subjects; or non-human specimens paired with a human subject. Derived guides may restrict the scope as needed (e.g. limiting the scope to well-identified human beings)
Last Official Release: https://hl7.eu/fhir/laboratory (2025-03-25, STU1 errata 1)
History of published versions (including pre-releases) : https://hl7.eu/fhir/ laboratory/history.html
CI-build URL: https://build.fhir.org/ig/hl7-eu/laboratory/
Plans: Publication of 2.0 version foreseen April 2026