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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:

  • Updated RCPA SPIA for Requesting and RCPA SPIA for Reporting archives with data from the October 2025 release
  • Provided a link to the updated SPIA Coding Report App which uses the October 2025 release of the updated RCPA SPIA for Requesting and RCPA SPIA for Reporting data (20 October 2025)
  • Provided a link to the updated SPIA Orders Generator App which uses the October 2025 release of the updated RCPA SPIA for Requesting data (16 October 2025)
  • Provided a link to the updated SPIA Results Generator App which uses the October 2025 release of the updated RCPA SPIA for Requesting and RCPA SPIA for Reporting data (20 October 2025)
  • Provided a link to the updated SPIA SNOMED Lookup App which uses the October 2025 release of the updated RCPA SPIA for Requesting data (16 October 2025)
  • Provided a link to the updated SPIA LOINC Lookup App which uses the October 2025 release of the updated RCPA SPIA for Reporting data and the updated User Guide (16 October 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 (with perhaps some delay before the version provided here is available) RCPA SPIA Resources as "RCPA - Pathology Terminology and Information Models and draft FHIR reference set".

Content of the archives
RCPA SPIA Requesting
  • FHIRValueSet-Requesting_from_RCPAQAP_2025-10-14.json
  • FHIRValueSet-Requesting_from_RCPAQAP_2025-10-14_validationReport.html
  • >RCPA_SPIA_Requesting_Oct_2025.json
  • RCPA_SPIA_Requesting_Oct_2025.tsv
  • reqJsonDataPrepRunDetails.json
  • Top_50_tests_SPIA_Imp_Dec_2024.json
  • Top_50_tests_SPIA_Imp_Dec_2024.tsv
RCPA SPIA Reporting
  • parsed_excel_output_Chem_Path_Reporting_Oct_2025.json
  • parsed_excel_output_Chem_Path_Reporting_Oct_2025.tsv
  • parsed_excel_output_Haem_TM_Reporting_Oct_2025.json
  • parsed_excel_output_Haem_TM_Reporting_Oct_2025.tsv
  • parsed_excel_output_Immuno_Reporting_Oct_2025.json
  • parsed_excel_output_Immuno_Reporting_Oct_2025.tsv
  • parsed_excel_output_Micro_Sero_Molecular_Oct_2025.json
  • parsed_excel_output_Micro_Sero_Molecular_Oct_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 . An archive containing an example HL7 v2 results message, the corresponding pathology report and the corresponding validation report is also provided for review.

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.