UPDATE - May 22, 2025 General availability date has changed to July 23, 2025. The change is still available in Developer Sandbox. Please test to ensure functionality of your application prior to the July 23, 2025 general availability.
UPDATE - Apr 3, 2025 Change deployed to Developer Sandbox on Apr 2, 2025. Please test to ensure functionality of your application. Client Sandbox Date is being scheduled for Apr 17, 2025. General availability date is still scheduled for April 24, 2025.
UPDATE - Jan 10, 2025 General availability date is pushing to April 24, 2025. Subscribe to announcements to get updates on developer sandbox and client non-prod availability.
We are writing to inform of a breaking change coming to FHIR R4 Patient resource. Currently included with the patient contacts are contact details for related persons including name, relationship, telecom, and address.
Going forward we will limit the included related person details in the patient resource to relationship, textual name, relationship, and a reference to the RelatedPerson. The reference will be in a common extension https://www.hl7.org/fhir/R4/extension-patient-relatedperson.html .
The change will be made generally available on July 23rd, 2025.
Key Dates to Note:
- Announcement Date: July 24th, 2024
- Developer Sandbox Effective Date: Apr 2nd, 2025
- Client Sandbox Effective Date: Apr 17th, 2025
- General Availability Date: July 23rd, 2025
What does this mean for you?
- Affected Services: FHIR R4 Patient Resource
- Call to Action: Update SMART on FHIR applications to leverage RelatedPerson resource to obtain related person details.
How we can help: