Existing Wording: To provide details about specific usage of the frameworks and resource contents, FHIR provides a?conformance layer?that implementers and national/regional programs can use to provide a computable statement about how the resources and their exchange paradigms are used to solve particular use cases. The conformance layer itself is implemented using the following key resources:

Proposed Wording: To provide details about specific usage of the frameworks and resource contents, FHIR provides a conformance layer that implementers, national/regional programs*, and other profiling organizations such as IHE,* can use to provide a computable statement*s* about how the resources and their exchange paradigms are used to solve particular use cases. The conformance layer itself is implemented using the following key resources:

Comment:

Expand use of profiling beyond implementations and national programs.

Also in 2.1.3 Cardinality "In some cases, this specification publishes additional profiles that define which elements are required in particular situations. Similar profiles are published by jurisdictions, vendors, profiling organizations, or projects."

Summary:

Expand use of profiling beyond national programs