Which type of version is managed by a human author or by a business policy and changes each time the content in the resource changes?

• A. Version History
• B. FHIR Version
• C. Business Version
• D. Record Version

Answer: (C)

In this scenario you’re looking at two layers of versioning: a business-facing version and a technical, system-managed version. The one described—managed by a human author or by business policy and changing whenever the content of the resource changes—is the business version. It exists to reflect meaningful, business-relevant states of the data, so external systems and processes can reference a particular business state of the resource.

The resource’s technical version (versionId) is typically incremented automatically by the server with each update and is mainly for technical purposes like concurrency control, not for tracking business releases. Version History is just the record of all prior versions, not a versioning scheme itself. FHIR Version would refer to the version of the FHIR specification being used, not to the resource content. So the business version is the correct concept here.