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title: Communication Standards
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**Standards matter at Founda! Curious why?**

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Understanding the importance of a standards-based approach, this page offers an overview of the healthcare-specific communication standards that our platform supports.

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The Founda Health Platform supports the following IHE Profiles.

| **Profile**                                                                                                                             | **Actor**                              | **Transaction**                 |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| Patient Demographics Query for Mobile ([PDQm](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/PDQm/index.html))                                            | Patient Demographics Supplier          | ITI-78                          |
| Query for Existing Data for Mobile ([QEDm](https://www.ihe.net/uploadedFiles/Documents/PCC/IHE_PCC_Suppl_QEDm.pdf))                     | Clinical Data Source                   | PCC-44                          |
| Patient Identifier Cross-reference for Mobile ([PIXm](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/PIXm/index.html))                                    | PIX Manager                            | ITI-84, ITI-104                 |
| Mobile Access to Health Documents ([MHD](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/MHD/index.html))                                                  | Document Recipient, Document Responder | ITI-65, ITI-66,  ITI-67, ITI-68 |
| Audit Trail & Node Authentication - Query and Feed ([ATNAm](http://ihe.net/uploadedFiles/Documents/ITI/IHE_ITI_Suppl_RESTful-ATNA.pdf)) | Audit Record Repository                | ITI-20, ITI-81                  |
| Cross-enterprise Document Sharing [XDS](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/TF/Volume1/ch-10.html#10)                                          | Document Source, Document Consumer     | ITI-18, ITI-41, ITI-43          |
| Cross-community Access ([XCA](https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/TF/Volume1/ch-18.html))                                                      | Initiating Gateway                     | ITI-38, ITI-39                  |

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Founda's HealthAPI is based on [FHIR R4](https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/), also see our [FHIR](docId\:H1AygLEOF8grIoXcjVPzt) page for the basics.

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Founda supports the following HL7v2.x message types.

| **Message Type**                       | **Receive (inbound)**                                                                                                                                                                                                      | **Send (outbound)** |
| -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- |
| Admission, Discharge and Transfer      | ADT\_A01, \_A02, \_A03, <br />\_A04, \_A05, \_A06, \_A07, <br />\_A08, \_A09, \_A10, \_A11, <br />\_A13, \_A14, \_A15, \_A16, <br />\_A25, \_A26, \_A27, \_A28,<br />\_A29, \_A31, \_A40, \_A41, <br />\_A45, \_A47, \_A60 | No                  |
| Finance and Billing                    | DFT\_P03, \_P11<br />BAR\_P01, \_P02, \_P12                                                                                                                                                                                | No                  |
| Medical Records/Information Management | MDM\_T01, \_T02, \_T05, <br />\_T06, \_T09, \_T10                                                                                                                                                                          | MDM\_T02            |
| Order Management                       | ORM\_O01, OMG\_O19,<br />OML\_O21, <br />RDE\_O11, \_O25<br />RDS\_O13                                                                                                                                                     | No                  |
| Observation Result                     | ORU\_R01, \_R30, \_R31, <br />\_R32, \_R40, \_R42, \_R43                                                                                                                                                                   | ORU\_R01            |
| Patient Referrals                      | REF\_I12, \_I14                                                                                                                                                                                                            | No                  |
| Scheduling Information                 | SIU\_S12, \_S13, \_S14, <br />\_S15, \_S16, \_S17, \_S27                                                                                                                                                                   | No                  |
| Vaccinations                           | VXU\_V04                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | No                  |