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Idle Ballot Items for Orders and Observations

This report generated on: October 16, 2026

Idle ballot items are those items that have not returned to ballot after three or more cycles and have not published, whether or not reconciliation activities are complete.

2025 May Ballot Cycle

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Clinical Order Workflow (COW), Edition 1
Ballot Tally Page: FHIR_IG_COW_E1_S1_2025MAY Project Insight Reference ID: 1068
Tally Summary
Negative   Affirmative   Withdraw   Total Affirmatives   Needed for Passage
17   30 + 0 = 30   28
No Reconciliation Package has been posted for this ballot item.
HL7 Logical Model: Anatomical Inventory and Person Characteristics, Edition 1
Ballot Tally Page: HL7_LM_AIPC_E1_I1_2025MAY Project Insight Reference ID: 1851
Tally Summary
Negative   Affirmative   Withdraw   Total Affirmatives   Needed for Passage
0   23 + 0 = 23   14
No Reconciliation Package has been posted for this ballot item.

2024 September Ballot Cycle

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Laboratory Report, Edition 1
Ballot Tally Page: FHIR_IG_LAB_REPORT_E1_S1_2024SEP Project Insight Reference ID: 1892
Tally Summary
Negative   Affirmative   Withdraw   Total Affirmatives   Needed for Passage
9   32 + 0 = 32   25
No Reconciliation Package has been posted for this ballot item.

2024 January Ballot Cycle

HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: LOINC – IVD Test Code (LIVD) Mapping, Edition 1
Ballot Tally Page: FHIR_IG_LIVD_E1_D3_2024JAN Project Insight Reference ID: 1335
Tally Summary
Negative   Affirmative   Withdraw   Total Affirmatives   Needed for Passage
2   28 + 0 = 28   18
Reconciliation Package

2020 February Ballot Cycle

HL7 Version 3 Domain Analysis Model: Laboratory Orders, Release 2
Ballot Tally Page: HL7_DAM_LABORD_R2_I1_2020FEB Project Insight Reference ID: 1067
Tally Summary
Negative   Affirmative   Withdraw   Total Affirmatives   Needed for Passage
1   18 + 0 = 18   11
Reconciliation Package

Total Idle Ballot Items: 5

Legend and Additional Information
Important Note Only the last ballot of an item is displayed in this list. If you need to refer to an earlier ballot of any item, you will need to use the Ballot Desktop and navigate to the Tally page of that ballot.
Idle In this context, "idle" refers to any item that has not balloted in the past three ballot cycles and has not been withdrawn as a project by the sponsoring WG.
Publication Requests If you feel an item has completed balloting and is ready to be published, you can submit a publication request using the Publication Request Template.
Ballot Tally Page This link will jump you to the Ballot Tally Page for the listed item to allow you to review the ballot tally. The code highlighted in the link is the Unique Ballot ID for the item.
Project Insight Reference ID The Project Insight Reference ID references the HL7 project this ballot item is associated with. More than a single ballot item may reference a single project. The link will jump to the Project Summary page for a project.
Tally Summary The Tally Summary lists the current ballot tally, ignoring any Abstain, No Returns and Removed values as these are not relevant to the final ballot outcome. Withdraws count as Affirmatives, although they are split out to illustrate how the ballot has fared after the ballot close.
Needed for Passage Needed for Passage displays the 'raw' number of votes a ballot needs to pass. If the total number of Affirmatives and Withdraws do not exceed this number, it will display in red. If the total number of Affirmatives and Withdraws do exceed this number, it will display in green. A green number does not necessarily mean that a ballot has passed, but it does mean that a WG should review the ballot and determine whether the actual status of the ballot.
Approval Levels Normative: 75%
Informative and STU: 60%