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RCPAQAP HL7 v2 Pathology Message Standards Conformance Tools

The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Programs (RCPAQAP) fully supports the Australian Pathology and allied industries in their endeavours to improve quality of care through the use of standards-conformant HL7 v2 Pathology Orders and Results messages for the communication of pathology testing requests and pathology test results between laboratories and points of care.

The RCPAQAP HL7 v2 pathology messages standards conformance validation, RCPA SPIA coding performance reporting, NPAAC RICR5 conformant order and results message generation, tools are provided by RCPAQAP to assist Pathology Laboratories, Clinical Practices, Secure Messaging Providers and other interested parties in progressing towards conformance and compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements.

The tools and materials are provided free of charge on an "as is" basis, with no warranties of any kind.

What's new: An application that generates NPAAC RICR5 conformant HL7 v2 Results messages, added on the 12th of August 2025

The RCPA SPIA Computer-processable Resources is a collection of two ZIP archives which contains the computer-processable versions of the RCPA SPIA resources that can be downloaded from the NCTS Web site RCPA SPIA Resources as "RCPA - Pathology Terminology and Information Models and draft FHIR reference set v20250430 (zip file)". Please note that on May 20, 2025 the RCPA SPIA archive was the April 2025 release. This will change at a future date. RCPA QAP

Content of the archives
RCPA SPIA Requesting April 2025
  • FHIRValueSet-Requesting_from_RCPAQAP_2025-05-20.json
  • FHIRValueSet-Requesting_from_RCPAQAP_2025-05-20_validationReport.html
  • RCPA_SPIA_Requesting_May_2025.json
  • RCPA_SPIA_Requesting_May_2025.tsv
  • Top_50_tests_SPIA_Imp_Dec_2024.json
  • Top_50_tests_SPIA_Imp_Dec_2024.tsv
RCPA SPIA Reporting May 2025
  • parsed_excel_output_Chem_Path_Reporting_Feb_2025.json
  • parsed_excel_output_Chem_Path_Reporting_Feb_2025.tsv
  • parsed_excel_output_Haem_TM_Reporting_Apr_2025.json
  • parsed_excel_output_Haem_TM_Reporting_Apr_2025.tsv
  • parsed_excel_output_Immuno_Reporting_Apr_2025.json
  • parsed_excel_output_Immuno_Reporting_Apr_2025.tsv
  • parsed_excel_output_Micro_Sero_Molecular_Ap_2025.json
  • parsed_excel_output_Micro_Sero_Molecular_Ap_2025.tsv
  • Preferred_Units_Aug_2022.json
  • Preferred_Units_Aug_2022.tsv

The RCPA SPIA Coding Performance Reporter accepts HL7 v2 Orders or Results messages, validates them for conformance with the expectations of the RCPA SIPA Guidelines for e-Requesting or Reporting and provides the validation report for on-line viewing and for download for off-line viewing.

The NPAAC RICR5 Standards-conformant HL7 v2 Order Message Generator allows the user to select one or more Orderable Tests from the RCPA SPIA-defined collection, optionally choose from the list of synonym Terms and synonym Specimen names, and generate a HL7 v2 Order message that conforms to the expectations of the ADRM 2021.1, RCPA SIPA Guidelines and NPAAC RICR5 Conformance Profiles, and provides the generated HL7 v2 Order message for on-line viewing and for download for off-line viewing.

The NPAAC RICR5 Conformant Results Message Generator allows the user to select one or more Orderable Tests from the RCPA SPIA-defined Requesting Terminology Set, for each choose one or more reportable tests from the RCPA SPIA-defined Reporting Terminology Sets, then generate a HL7 v2 Results message that conforms to the expectations of the ADRM 2021.1, RCPA SPIA Guidelines and the NPAAC RCCR5 Conformance Profiles, the Pathology Report which conforms to the requirements of the RCPA SPIA Report Rendering Design Checklist - Comprehensive, and provides the generated HL7 v2 Results message and the PDF Report for on-line viewing and for download for off-line viewing. See References.

The RCPA SPIA-defined SNOMED Code Lookup Tool allows the user to select an Orderable Test from the RCPA SPIA-defined collection, optionally filter the list by Discipline and by a test name-based filter expression, and view the Discipline, the SNOMED Code, the RCPA Preferred Term, the list of RCPA Synonyms and the list of Specimen codes for the selected Orderable Test.

The RCPA SPIA-defined LOINC Code Lookup Tool allows the user to select a Reportable Test from the RCPA SPIA-defined collections, optionally filtering the list by LOINC code, Discipline and several attribute filter expressions, and view the Discipline, the LOINC Code, the RCPA Preferred Term, the list of RCPA Synonyms and numerous other attributes.