Mobile Care Services Discovery (mCSD)
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This page is part of the IHE ITI Mobile Care Services Discovery (v3.9.0: Publication) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Mobile Care Services Discovery (mCSD)

Official URL: https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/mCSD/ImplementationGuide/ihe.iti.mcsd Version: 3.9.0
Active as of 2024-12-12 Computable Name: IHE_ITI_mCSD

The Mobile Care Services Discovery (mCSD) Profile supports RESTful queries across related care services resources.

The loosely coupled design and flexible querying capability of the mCSD Profile means it can be deployed within a variety of eHealth architectures and support a wide array of care workflows.

Significant Changes, Open, and Closed Issues

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Organization of This Guide

This guide is organized into the following four main sections:

  1. Volume 1: Profiles
    1. mCSD Introduction
    2. mCSD Actors, Transactions, and Content Modules
    3. mCSD Actor Options
    4. mCSD Required Groupings
    5. mCSD Overview
    6. mCSD Security Considerations
    7. mCSD Cross-Profile Considerations
    8. mCSD Deployment Considerations
    9. mCSD Endpoint Usage Considerations
  2. Volume 2: Transaction Detail
    1. Find Matching Care Services [ITI-90]
    2. Request Care Services Updates [ITI-91]
  3. Other
    1. Test Plan
    2. Changes to Other IHE Specifications
    3. Download and Analysis

Click on any of the links above, navigate the contents using the table of contents, or if you are looking for a specific artifact, check out the index.

Conformance Expectations

IHE uses the normative words: Shall, Should, and May according to standards conventions.

mCSD uses Must Support in StructureDefinition profiles. This is equivalent to the IHE use of R2 as defined in Appendix Z.