# BodyStructure (Core) - MyHealth@EU Core v1.0.0

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* [**Artifacts Summary**](artifacts.md)
* **BodyStructure (Core)**

## Resource Profile: BodyStructure (Core) 

| | | |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| *Official URL*:http://fhir.ehdsi.eu/core/StructureDefinition/bodyStructure-myhealtheu-core | *Version*:1.0.0 | |
| * Standards status: *[Trial-use](http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/versions.html#std-process) | [Maturity Level](http://hl7.org/fhir/versions.html#maturity): 2 | *Computable Name*:BodyStructureMyHealthCore |

 
This profile specifies how the HL7 FHIR BodyStructure resource should be used for conveying commonly used concepts in the European context. 

**Usages:**

* Refer to this Profile: [Condition (Core)](StructureDefinition-condition-myhealtheu-core.md), [Observation: Medical Test Result (Core)](StructureDefinition-medicalTestResult-myhealtheu-core.md) and [Procedure (Core)](StructureDefinition-procedure-myhealtheu-core.md)
* Examples for this Profile: [BodyStructure/b2c3d4e5-f6a7-8901-bcde-f12345678901](BodyStructure-b2c3d4e5-f6a7-8901-bcde-f12345678901.md)

You can also check for [usages in the FHIR IG Statistics](https://packages2.fhir.org/xig/myhealth.eu.fhir.core|current/StructureDefinition/bodyStructure-myhealtheu-core)

### 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-bodyStructure-myhealtheu-core.csv), [Excel](StructureDefinition-bodyStructure-myhealtheu-core.xlsx), [Schematron](StructureDefinition-bodyStructure-myhealtheu-core.sch) 



## Resource Content

```json
{
  "resourceType" : "StructureDefinition",
  "id" : "bodyStructure-myhealtheu-core",
  "extension" : [{
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm",
    "valueInteger" : 2
  },
  {
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status",
    "valueCode" : "trial-use"
  }],
  "url" : "http://fhir.ehdsi.eu/core/StructureDefinition/bodyStructure-myhealtheu-core",
  "version" : "1.0.0",
  "name" : "BodyStructureMyHealthCore",
  "title" : "BodyStructure (Core)",
  "status" : "active",
  "date" : "2026-05-04T16:10:59+02:00",
  "publisher" : "MyHealth@Eu",
  "contact" : [{
    "name" : "MyHealth@Eu",
    "telecom" : [{
      "system" : "url",
      "value" : "https://health.ec.europa.eu/other-pages/basic-page/myhealtheu-flyer-addressed-patients-and-health-professionals_en"
    }]
  }],
  "description" : "This profile specifies how the HL7 FHIR BodyStructure resource should be used for conveying commonly used concepts in the European context.",
  "jurisdiction" : [{
    "coding" : [{
      "system" : "http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm",
      "code" : "150",
      "display" : "Europe"
    }]
  }],
  "fhirVersion" : "4.0.1",
  "mapping" : [{
    "identity" : "rim",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v3",
    "name" : "RIM Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "openehr",
    "uri" : "http://openehr.org",
    "name" : "Open EHR Archetype Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "w5",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/fivews",
    "name" : "FiveWs Pattern Mapping"
  },
  {
    "identity" : "v2",
    "uri" : "http://hl7.org/v2",
    "name" : "HL7 v2 Mapping"
  }],
  "kind" : "resource",
  "abstract" : false,
  "type" : "BodyStructure",
  "baseDefinition" : "http://hl7.eu/fhir/base/StructureDefinition/bodyStructure-eu-core",
  "derivation" : "constraint",
  "differential" : {
    "element" : [{
      "id" : "BodyStructure",
      "path" : "BodyStructure"
    },
    {
      "id" : "BodyStructure.language",
      "path" : "BodyStructure.language",
      "binding" : {
        "strength" : "required",
        "valueSet" : "http://terminology.ehdsi.eu/ValueSet/eHDSILanguage"
      }
    },
    {
      "id" : "BodyStructure.extension:includedStructure",
      "path" : "BodyStructure.extension",
      "sliceName" : "includedStructure"
    },
    {
      "id" : "BodyStructure.extension:includedStructure.extension:laterality",
      "path" : "BodyStructure.extension.extension",
      "sliceName" : "laterality"
    },
    {
      "id" : "BodyStructure.extension:includedStructure.extension:laterality.value[x]",
      "path" : "BodyStructure.extension.extension.value[x]",
      "binding" : {
        "strength" : "required",
        "valueSet" : "http://terminology.ehdsi.eu/ValueSet/eHDSIBodySiteLaterality"
      }
    },
    {
      "id" : "BodyStructure.morphology",
      "path" : "BodyStructure.morphology",
      "binding" : {
        "strength" : "required",
        "valueSet" : "http://fhir.ehdsi.eu/core/ValueSet/eHDSIMorphologicAbnormalityWithExceptions"
      }
    },
    {
      "id" : "BodyStructure.location",
      "path" : "BodyStructure.location",
      "binding" : {
        "strength" : "required",
        "valueSet" : "http://fhir.ehdsi.eu/core/ValueSet/eHDSIBodySiteWithExceptions"
      }
    },
    {
      "id" : "BodyStructure.locationQualifier",
      "path" : "BodyStructure.locationQualifier",
      "binding" : {
        "strength" : "required",
        "valueSet" : "http://fhir.ehdsi.eu/core/ValueSet/eHDSIBodyStructureLocQualWithExceptions"
      }
    },
    {
      "id" : "BodyStructure.patient",
      "path" : "BodyStructure.patient",
      "type" : [{
        "code" : "Reference",
        "targetProfile" : ["http://fhir.ehdsi.eu/core/StructureDefinition/patient-myhealtheu-core"]
      }]
    }]
  }
}

```
