Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) Implementation Guide
1.15.0 - Release 1

Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) Implementation Guide - Local Development build (v1.15.0) built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) Build Tools. See the Directory of published versions

## Downloads

### Full Implementation Guide

The entire implementation guide (including the HTML files, definitions, validation information, etc.) may be downloaded here.

In addition there are format specific definitions files.

- XML
- JSON
- TTL

### Examples

All the examples that are used in this Implementation Guide available for download:

- XML
- JSON
- TTl

### Cross Version Analysis

This is an R4 IG. None of the features it uses are changed in R4B, so it can be used as is with R4B systems. Packages for both R4 (sequoia.fhir.us.rce.r4) and R4B (sequoia.fhir.us.rce.r4b) are available.

### Dependency Table

IG | Package | FHIR | Comment
--- | --- | --- | ---
Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) Implementation Guide | sequoia.fhir.us.rce#1.15.0 | R4 |
HL7 Terminology (THO) | hl7.terminology.r4#7.1.0 | R4 | Automatically added as a dependency - all IGs depend on HL7 Terminology
FHIR Extensions Pack | hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.2.0 | R4 |
FHIR Extensions Pack | hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.3.0 | R4 | Automatically added as a dependency - all IGs depend on the HL7 Extension Pack
Sequoia Project Healthcare Directory Implementation Guide | sequoia.fhir.us.sphd#dev | R4 |
US Core Implementation Guide | hl7.fhir.us.core#6.1.0 | R4 |
HL7 Terminology (THO) | hl7.terminology.r4#5.0.0 | R4 |
FHIR Extensions Pack | hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#1.0.0 | R4 |
Bulk Data Access IG | hl7.fhir.uv.bulkdata#2.0.0 | R4 |
SMART App Launch | hl7.fhir.uv.smart-app-launch#2.1.0 | R4 |
VSAC | us.nlm.vsac#0.11.0 | R4 |
Structured Data Capture | hl7.fhir.uv.sdc#3.0.0 | R4 |
PHINVads | us.cdc.phinvads#0.12.0 | R4 |
IHE FormatCode Vocabulary | ihe.formatcode.fhir#1.1.0 | R4 |
HL7 Terminology (THO) | hl7.terminology#5.5.0 | R4 |
Security for Scalable Registration, Authentication, and Authorization | hl7.fhir.us.udap-security#2.0.0 | R4 |
HL7 Terminology (THO) | hl7.terminology.r4#7.0.0 | R4 |
FHIR Tooling Extensions IG | hl7.fhir.uv.tools.r4#1.1.2 | R4 | for example references

Package hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.2.0 This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Mon, Feb 10, 2025 21:45+1100+11:00)

Package hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.3.0 This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Sat, May 16, 2026 18:32+1000+10:00)

Package hl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#1.0.0 This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Sun, Mar 26, 2023 08:46+1100+11:00)

Package hl7.fhir.uv.bulkdata#2.0.0 FHIR based approach for exporting large data sets from a FHIR server to a client application (built Fri, Nov 26, 2021 05:56+1100+11:00)

Package hl7.fhir.uv.sdc#3.0.0 The SDC specification provides an infrastructure to standardize the capture and expanded use of patient-level data collected within an EHR. This includes two components: * Support more sophisticated questionnaire/form use-cases such as those needed for research, oncology, pathology and other clinical domains. *Support pre-population and auto-population of EHR data into forms/questionnaires for uses outside direct clinical care (patient safety, adverse event reporting, public health reporting, etc.). (built Tue, Mar 8, 2022 18:32+0000+00:00)

Package ihe.formatcode.fhir#1.1.0 Implementation Guide for IHE defined FormatCode vocabulary. (built Thu, Feb 24, 2022 16:55-0600-06:00)

Package hl7.fhir.us.core#6.1.0 The US Core Implementation Guide is based on FHIR Version R4 and defines the minimum conformance requirements for accessing patient data. The Argonaut pilot implementations, ONC 2015 Edition Common Clinical Data Set (CCDS), and ONC U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) v1 provided the requirements for this guide. The prior Argonaut search and vocabulary requirements, based on FHIR DSTU2, are updated in this guide to support FHIR Version R4. This guide was used as the basis for further testing and guidance by the Argonaut Project Team to provide additional content and guidance specific to Data Query Access for purpose of ONC Certification testing. These profiles are the foundation for future US Realm FHIR implementation guides. In addition to Argonaut, they are used by DAF-Research, QI-Core, and CIMI. Under the guidance of HL7 and the HL7 US Realm Steering Committee, the content will expand in future versions to meet the needs specific to the US Realm. These requirements were originally developed, balloted, and published in FHIR DSTU2 as part of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) sponsored Data Access Framework (DAF) project. For more information on how DAF became US Core see the US Core change notes. (built Fri, Jun 30, 2023 14:02+0000+00:00)

Package hl7.fhir.us.udap-security#2.0.0 This implementation guide describes how to extend OAuth 2.0 to support secure and scalable workflows for business-to-business (B2B) apps that implement the client credentials flow or authorization code flow. (built Tue, Dec 9, 2025 21:26+0000+00:00)

Package hl7.fhir.uv.tools.r4#1.1.2 This IG defines the extensions that the tools use internally. Some of these extensions are content that are being evaluated for elevation into the main spec, and others are tooling concerns (built Tue, Mar 24, 2026 11:13+1100+11:00)

### Globals Table

There are no Global profiles defined

### IP Statements

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  - SNOMED Clinical Terms&reg; (SNOMED CT&reg;): Example RCE Endpoint and RCE Participant Example