---
oid: "2.16.840.1.113883"
asn1-notation: "{joint-iso-itu-t(2) country(16) us(840) organization(1) hl7(113883)}"
description: "Health Level 7 (HL7), Inc., an ANSI-accredited standards developing organization operating in the healthcare arena"
last-modified: "2022-02-11"
tags: [oid-repository]
---

## OID: `2.16.840.1.113883`

```asn1
{joint-iso-itu-t(2) country(16) us(840) organization(1) hl7(113883)}
```

### Description

Health Level 7 (HL7), Inc., an ANSI-accredited standards developing organization operating in the healthcare arena

**Classification**: Healthcare

### Supplementary information

HL7 Version 3 artefacts use OIDs to identify coding schemes and identifier namespaces.
The [HL7 OID registry](http://www.hl7.org/oid/index.cfm) is structured as follows:
`1`: HL7 registered internal objects (other than published documents and organizational bodies);
`2`: HL7 organizational bodies and groups;
`3`: External groups that have been issued an HL7 OID root for their own use;
`4`: Registered externally maintained identifier systems and namespaces;
`5`: HL7 Internal Code Systems;
`6`: Registered external coding systems (with an HL7 issued OID);
`7`: HL7 published documents (standards, tutorial slides, implementation guides, databases, published Reference Information Model (RIM) graphic billboards, etc);
`8`: HL7 OID registered documentation products and artifacts;
`9`: HL7 Registered conformance profiles;
`10`: HL7 Registered Templates;
`11`: HL7 defined and registered Value Sets;
`12`: HL7 Version 2.x tables as code systems;
`13`: Externally authored and curated Value Sets, HL7 registered;
`14`: Internal use;
`15`: Small code sets externally defined (similar to v2.x tables);
`19`: HL7 Examples Root used for published examples; meaningless identifier, not to be used for any actual entities.
See also the not-authoritative [overview of OIDs used in European HL7 artefacts](http://www.ringholm.de/docs/00900_en.htm) maintained by [Rene Spronk](mailto:Rene.Spronk@ANTISPAM.ringholm.com).
The process of registering an OID with HL7 is the addition to a central registry of an OID and its descriptive data. The OID doesn't have to be within the HL7 root OID or any specific other root or branch OID. Once a scheme has been registered, no other OIDs that identify the same scheme can be registered.

### Registrant

Name: W. Ted Klein
Address: On behalf of Health Level Seven, Inc.
Klein Consulting, Inc.
47 Old Saddle Rd.
Ridge, New York 11961
United States of America
Phone: +1 631 924 6922
Email: ted@tklein.com

### Child OIDs

- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.1`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.1): `internalHL7objects(1)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.2`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.2): `affiliate(2)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.3`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.3): `externalUseRoots(3)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.4`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.4): `commonPublicNamespaces(4)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.5`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.5): `v3codeSystems(5)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.6`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.6): `externalCodeSystems(6)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.8`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.8): `hL7documents(8)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.9`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.9): `conformanceProfiles(9)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.10`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.10): `templates(10)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.11`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.11): `valueSets(11)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.12`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.12): `v2tables(12)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.13`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.13): `externalValueSets(13)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.14`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.14): `ahc(14)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.15`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.15): `15`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.17`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.17): `17`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.18`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.18): `18`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.19`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.19): `examples(19)`
- [OID `2.16.840.1.113883.21`](https://oid-base.com/get-md/2.16.840.1.113883.21): `21`

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