---
type: "codesystem"
title: "Task Status"
codesystem: "task-status"
---
# Task Status

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/task-status
- **Version**: 6.0.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: TaskStatus
- **Title**: Task Status
- **Publisher**: HL7 (FHIR Project)
- **Description**: The current status of the task.
- **Case Sensitive**: true
- **Content**: complete

## Concepts

| Code | Display | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| draft | Draft | The task is not yet ready to be acted upon. |
| requested | Requested | The task is ready to be acted upon and action is sought. |
| received | Received | A potential performer has claimed ownership of the task and is evaluating whether to perform it. |
| accepted | Accepted | The potential performer has agreed to execute the task but has not yet started work. |
| rejected | Rejected | The potential performer who claimed ownership of the task has decided not to execute it prior to performing any action. |
| ready | Ready | The task is ready to be performed, but no action has yet been taken.  Used in place of requested/received/accepted/rejected when request assignment and acceptance is a given. |
| cancelled | Cancelled | The task was not completed. |
| in-progress | In Progress | The task has been started but is not yet complete. |
| on-hold | On Hold | The task has been started but work has been paused. |
| failed | Failed | The task was attempted but was not successful.  No further activity will occur for this task. |
| completed | Completed | The task has been completed. |
| entered-in-error | Entered in Error | The task should never have existed and is retained only because of the possibility it may have used. |

## CodeSystem XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="task-status"/>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-wg">
    <valueCode value="oo"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-standards-status">
    <valueCode value="normative"/>
  </extension>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/structuredefinition-fmm">
    <valueInteger value="2"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/task-status"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.4.791"/>
  </identifier>
  <identifier>
    <use value="old"/>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.1.774"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="6.0.0"/>
  <name value="TaskStatus"/>
  <title value="Task Status"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2021-01-05T10:01:24+11:00"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 (FHIR Project)"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="fhir@lists.hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="The current status of the task."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/task-status"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="draft"/>
    <display value="Draft"/>
    <definition value="The task is not yet ready to be acted upon."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="requested"/>
    <display value="Requested"/>
    <definition value="The task is ready to be acted upon and action is sought."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="received"/>
    <display value="Received"/>
    <definition value="A potential performer has claimed ownership of the task and is evaluating whether to perform it."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="accepted"/>
    <display value="Accepted"/>
    <definition value="The potential performer has agreed to execute the task but has not yet started work."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="rejected"/>
    <display value="Rejected"/>
    <definition value="The potential performer who claimed ownership of the task has decided not to execute it prior to performing any action."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="ready"/>
    <display value="Ready"/>
    <definition value="The task is ready to be performed, but no action has yet been taken.  Used in place of requested/received/accepted/rejected when request assignment and acceptance is a given."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="cancelled"/>
    <display value="Cancelled"/>
    <definition value="The task was not completed."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="in-progress"/>
    <display value="In Progress"/>
    <definition value="The task has been started but is not yet complete."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="on-hold"/>
    <display value="On Hold"/>
    <definition value="The task has been started but work has been paused."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="failed"/>
    <display value="Failed"/>
    <definition value="The task was attempted but was not successful.  No further activity will occur for this task."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="completed"/>
    <display value="Completed"/>
    <definition value="The task has been completed."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="entered-in-error"/>
    <display value="Entered in Error"/>
    <definition value="The task should never have existed and is retained only because of the possibility it may have used."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
```