# QHIN - Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) Implementation Guide v1.12.0

* [**Table of Contents**](toc.md)
* [**Artifacts Summary**](artifacts.md)
* **QHIN**

## Resource Profile: QHIN 

| | |
| :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:https://sequoiaproject.org/fhir/rce/StructureDefinition/QHIN | *Version*:1.12.0 |
| Active as of 2026-03-12 | *Computable Name*:QHIN |

 
The QHIN profile represents a Qualified Health Information Network as defined in the Common Agreement. A QHIN can be the parent of Participant, Subparticipant, and Child organizations. There will be exactly one QHIN Organization resource per Designated QHIN. 

**Usages:**

* Refer to this Profile: [Child](StructureDefinition-Child.md), [Participant](StructureDefinition-Participant.md) and [Subparticipant](StructureDefinition-SubParticipant.md)
* Examples for this Profile: [QHIN A](Organization-Q.A.0.0.md), [QHIN B](Organization-Q.B.0.0.md) and [RCE QHIN Example](Organization-QHIN-example.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/sequoia.fhir.us.rce|current/StructureDefinition/QHIN)

### Formal Views of Profile Content

 [Description of Profiles, Differentials, Snapshots and how the different presentations work](http://build.fhir.org/ig/FHIR/ig-guidance/readingIgs.html#structure-definitions). 

 

Other representations of profile: [CSV](StructureDefinition-QHIN.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-QHIN.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-QHIN.sch) 



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "QHIN",
  "url" : "https://sequoiaproject.org/fhir/rce/StructureDefinition/QHIN",
  "version" : "1.12.0",
  "name" : "QHIN",
  "title" : "QHIN",
  "status" : "active",
  "date" : "2026-03-12T18:36:26-04:00",
  "publisher" : "Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE)",
  "contact" : [{
    "name" : "Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE)",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "http://rce.sequoiaproject.org/rce/"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "The QHIN profile represents a Qualified Health Information Network as defined in the Common Agreement. A QHIN can be the parent of Participant, Subparticipant, and Child organizations.\nThere will be exactly one QHIN Organization resource per Designated QHIN.",
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "v2",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v2",
    "name" : "HL7 v2 Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "servd",
    "uri" : "http://www.omg.org/spec/ServD/1.0/",
    "name" : "ServD"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "w5",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/fivews",
    "name" : "FiveWs Pattern Mapping"
  }],
  "kind" : "resource",
  "abstract" : false,
  "type" : "Organization",
  "baseDefinition" : "https://sequoiaproject.org/fhir/rce/StructureDefinition/RCE-Organization",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "Organization",
      "path" : "Organization"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Organization.type:sequoiaorgtype",
      "path" : "Organization.type",
      "sliceName" : "sequoiaorgtype",
      "patternCodeableConcept" : {
        "coding" : [{
          "system" : "https://sequoiaproject.org/fhir/sphd/CodeSystem/OrganizationType",
          "code" : "QHIN"
        }]
      }
    },
    {
      "id" : "Organization.partOf",
      "path" : "Organization.partOf",
      "max" : "0"
    },
    {
      "id" : "Organization.contact",
      "path" : "Organization.contact",
      "min" : 1
    }]
  }
}

```
