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| Classification Level Sort descending | Data Class | Data Class Description | Data Element | Data Element Description | Applicable Standards | Submitter Name | Submitter Organization | Submission Date |
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| Level 1 | Clinical Notes | Narrative patient data relevant to the context identified by note types.
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Maternal Social Determinants of Health Note | The Maternal Social Determinants of Health Note supports the aggregation of significant events, social problems and related health concerns, and plans of care derived from the visits over the course of a maternal care episode. It is a summary of the most critical information maternal care providers capture and share regarding the status of a maternal patient's social issues. The information is aggregated data from which the patient’s interactions with healthcare and social services providers are captured. |
SNOMED CT LOINC ICD10 ICD9 CM ICD10CM, SNOMEDCT |
Andrea Fourquet | IHE USA | |
| Level 1 | Genomics | Variant Data | The data representing the genetic variant information itself. Depending on the type of genetic variation, this data element could contain representation of a genomic DNA change, amino acid change, etc. |
* SNOMED CT LINKS: SNOMED CT LOINC HGNC Notation HGVS Nomenclature COSMIC ISCN |
Steve Bratt | CodeX (Common Oncology Data Elements eXtensions), a member-driven HL7 FHIR Accelerator | ||
| Level 1 | Work Information | Combat Zone Period | This data element is the self-reported date range(s) when a person worked in what is considered a combat zone. Both civilian workers, such as Department of Defense contractors, and military service members could have worked in combat zones. |
An information model of the Patient Work data elements, called Occupational Data for Health (ODH), has been published ( https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa070) and the data are represented in the Federal Health Information Model (FHIM; https://fhim.org/). An HL7 informative EHR-S Functional Profile has been published (http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=498). A Guide to Collection of Occupational Data for Health (ODH) is in preparation. Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC; https://loinc.org/) codes are available for each Patient Work Data Element, including Employment Status. The ODH code set (https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/ViewCodeSystem.action?id=2.16.840.1.114222.4.5.327) provides a value set for Employment Status as well as other Patient Work Data Elements (https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/SearchValueSets_search.action?searchOptions.searchText=ODH). The PHIN VADS ODH Hot Topics section provides downloadable files with Preferred Concept Names and Easy Read Descriptions for Employment Status values (https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/SearchVocab.action). Interoperability standard formats for all of the Patient Work Data Elements are published as aligned HL7 CDA, V2, and FHIR ODH templates as well as an IHE CDA profile ODH template. Related References: HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Consolidated CDA Templates for Clinical Notes; Occupational Data for Health, Release 1 – US Realm; STU. http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=522 IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC) Technical Framework Supplement: CDA Content Modules, Revision 2.6 – Trial Implementation. https://www.ihe.net/resources/technical_frameworks/#pcc HL7 FHIR Release 4.0.1 Profile: Occupational Data for Health (ODH), Release 1.0 STU. http://hl7.org/fhir/us/odh/STU1/ HL7 Version 2.9 Messaging Standard – An Application Protocol for Electronic Data Exchange in Healthcare Environments, Normative. http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=516 . Chapter 2C, Tables, Tables 0954-0959 provide the Patient Work Data Element component value sets. Chapter 3, Patient Administration, sections 3.4.15 and 3.4.18 describe the Patient Work Data Elements Employment Status and Combat Zone Period as Occupational Health (OH) segments; Retirement Date is included in the PD-1 segment. |
Genevieve Luensman | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health | ||
| Level 1 | Genomics | Gene Studied | The human gene targeted for mutation/variant analysis. |
SNOMED CT LOINC HGNC Notation HGVS Nomenclature COSMIC ISCN |
Steve Bratt | CodeX (Common Oncology Data Elements eXtensions), a member-driven HL7 FHIR Accelerator | ||
| Level 1 | Patient Demographics/Information | Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes. |
Patient Social Security Number | Records patient’s social security number. |
Social Security Administration: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/geocard.html Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs): https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/New-Medicare-Card PHIN VADS: Patient Marital Status: https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/ViewValueSet.action?id=DB54A32E-D583-4A24-BD9C-234B0C7BD0FD Gender Identity - Gender harmony project definitions: https://www.jointcommission.org/-/media/deprecated-unorganized/imported-assets/tjc/system-folders/topics-library/lgbtfieldguidepdf.pdf?db=web&hash=224B46C31193399359B8113698971F26 FHIR patient extension: birthplace: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/extension-patient-birthplace.html FHIR patient address.period: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition-us-core-patient.html LOINC pregnancy status: https://loinc.org/82810-3/ Patient Vital Status: PHIN VADS, SNOMED-CT: https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/ViewValueSet.action?id=6EA795D5-5C5D-E511-81F8-0017A477041A Patient vital status:CCDA uses Value Set - HealthStatus urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.20.12 Value Set Source: https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.20.12/expansion |
Maria Michaels | CDC | |
| Level 1 | Advance Directives | Living Will | In a living will, a person specifies whether he or she wants (or does not want) “life-sustaining treatments” (e.g., artificial nutrition or hydration, dialysis or the use of a ventilator to help with breathing), external cardiac compression (CPR), the application of an electric current to the heart (defibrillation), or the use of a tube placed into the windpipe through the mouth or nose to help the person breathe, should that person suffer a medical emergency and be unable to communicate with the care team. A living will includes information that helps the healthcare agent make treatment decisions on the person’s behalf, and is used by medical professionals to inform their treatment plans. |
HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Personal Advance Care Plan (PACP) Document, Release 1 - US Realm STU Release 2 The PACP document is a CDA document template designed to share information created by an individual to express his or her care and medical treatment goals, preferences, and priorities for some future point in time, under certain circumstances when the individual cannot make medical treatment decisions or communicate his or her goals, preferences, and priorities with the care team. The purpose of the PACP document is to ensure that the information created by the individual is available and considered in clinical care planning, and the focus of the standard is sharing patient generated information. It should not matter if the source information is documented on a piece of paper, in a video recording, or in a consumer-controlled application that exists for this purpose. The standard provides a means to share this information in a standard way with a system that maintains a clinical record for the person. It is not intended to be a legal document or a digitization of a legal document. However, a PACP can reference a legal document, and it can represent information contained in a legal document such as the appointment of healthcare agents and the identity of witnesses or a notary. |
Matt Elrod on behalf of ADVault, Inc. | ADVault, Inc. | ||
| Level 1 | Exposure/Contact Information | Exposure/Contact Type | The type of exposure/contact (environmental, activity, event, location, person, animal, etc.) to an agent. | HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) based on FHIR R4 HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Public Health Case Report - the Electronic Initial Case Report (eICR) HL7 FHIR: US Public Health Exposure Contact Information profile (Observation.component) HL7 CDA: Exposure/Contact Information Observation template (observation/participant) |
Laura Conn | |||
| Level 1 | Exposure/Contact Information | Exposure/Contact Source/Target Participant | The source or target of the exposure or contact. Could be person, animal, or location. Either the patient's contact with an entity (person, animal, or substance) or presence at a location where exposure to an agent could have occurred or the patient's contact with an entity (person, animal, or substance) or presence at a location where transmission from the patient could have occurred. | HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) based on FHIR R4 HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Public Health Case Report - the Electronic Initial Case Report (eICR) HL7 FHIR: US Public Health Exposure Contact Information profile (Observation.component) HL7 CDA: Exposure/Contact Information Observation template (observation/participant) |
Laura Conn | |||
| Level 1 | Patient Demographics/Information | Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes. |
Patient Marital Status | Patient marital status at the time of documentation. |
Social Security Administration: https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/geocard.html Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs): https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/New-Medicare-Card PHIN VADS: Patient Marital Status: https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/ViewValueSet.action?id=DB54A32E-D583-4A24-BD9C-234B0C7BD0FD Gender Identity - Gender harmony project definitions: https://www.jointcommission.org/-/media/deprecated-unorganized/imported-assets/tjc/system-folders/topics-library/lgbtfieldguidepdf.pdf?db=web&hash=224B46C31193399359B8113698971F26 FHIR patient extension: birthplace: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/extension-patient-birthplace.html FHIR patient address.period: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition-us-core-patient.html LOINC pregnancy status: https://loinc.org/82810-3/ Patient Vital Status: PHIN VADS, SNOMED-CT: https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/ViewValueSet.action?id=6EA795D5-5C5D-E511-81F8-0017A477041A Patient vital status:CCDA uses Value Set - HealthStatus urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.20.12 Value Set Source: https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.20.12/expansion |
Maria Michaels | CDC | |
| Level 1 | Exposure/Contact Information | Exposure/Contact Direction | Whether the direction of exposure/contact is acquisition (patient is the target and another person, animal, location, etc. is the source) or transmission (patient is the source and another person, animal, location, etc. is the target). | HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) based on FHIR R4 HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Public Health Case Report - the Electronic Initial Case Report (eICR) HL7 FHIR: US Public Health Exposure Contact Information profile (Observation.component) HL7 CDA: Exposure/Contact Information Observation template (observation/participant) |
Laura Conn | |||
| Level 1 | Exposure/Contact Information | Exposure/Contact Date | The date or period on which the possible exposure/contact occurred. | HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) based on FHIR R4 HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Public Health Case Report - the Electronic Initial Case Report (eICR) HL7 FHIR: US Public Health Exposure Contact Information profile (Observation.component) HL7 CDA: Exposure/Contact Information Observation template (observation/participant) |
Laura Conn | |||
| Level 1 | Exposure/Contact Information | Exposure/Contact agent | The possible agent of concern in the exposure/contact. | HL7 FHIR® Implementation Guide: Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) based on FHIR R4 HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Public Health Case Report - the Electronic Initial Case Report (eICR) HL7 FHIR: US Public Health Exposure Contact Information profile (Observation.component) HL7 CDA: Exposure/Contact Information Observation template (observation/participant) |
Laura Conn | |||
| Level 1 | Patient Demographics/Information | Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes. |
Patient's Primary Care Provider | Patient's nominated care provider. [Knowing this at the patient level can help answer the question at the encounter level whether the pt. was seen by PCP.] |
Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) |
Nedra Garrett | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
| Level 1 | Laboratory | Analysis of clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient. |
Instrument Unique Identifier | Uniquely identifies the type of instrument that was used in conjunction with the Test kit (at minimum by using instrument name and manufacturer (similar to the make and model of a car)) to obtain the Test Result Value. When a testkit is used on an instrument it is the combination of kit and instrument, that qualify the Performed Test. |
Riki Merrick | Association of Public Health Laboratories | ||
| Level 1 | Cancer Care | NCI Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO)-Common Terminology for Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) | PRO-CTCAE (NCI Patient Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) was developed to evaluate symptomatic toxicities by self-report in adults, adolescents and children participating in cancer clinical trials. It is designed to be utilized in comparison to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), the standard lexicon for adverse event reporting in cancer trials. |
ICD-10 : https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10 |
Kevin Jung | University of California San Francisco Breast Care Center | ||
| Level 1 | Security Label | Security Label Purpose of Use (POU) Tag | A POU tag is the 0..* component of a Security Label that conforms to follows the HL7 Healthcare Privacy and Security Classification System (HCS), Release 1 syntax to indicate the circumstances under which an authorized recipient is permitted to perform an activity such as create, collect, access, use, or disclose. For HL7 POU codes, see POU value set at: https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/UTG/ValueSet-v3-PurposeOfUse.html We recommend creating a value set of POU codes to value the POU tag, which are specific to priority US policies as discussed in the HL7 Cross-Paradigm US Regulatory Security Labeling Implementation Guide, which is under development. |
HL7 v3 code systems and value sets, and HL7 standards listed in the Data Elements above, and discussed in the use cases. All be the Cross Paradigm for US Regulatory Security Labeling, FHIR US Regulatory Security Labeling IG, and the FHIR DS4P IG are normative. |
TICIA Louise GERBER | Health Level Seven International | ||
| Level 1 | Patient Demographics/Information | Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes. |
Variation in Sex Characteristics | Were you born with a variation in your physical sex characteristics? (This is sometimes called being intersex or having a Difference in Sex Development, or DSD.) |
LOINC has an intersex response option, 99502-7, for Recorded sex or gender. LOINC has an intersex response option. We do not endorse the way LOINC conceptualizes intersex (as corresponding to an X response to a sex or gender question). |
Sean Cahill | Fenway Health | |
| Level 1 | Security Label | Security Label Confidentiality Tag | A Confidentiality tag is the 1..1 component of a Security Label that conforms to the HL7 Healthcare Privacy and Security Classification System (HCS), Release 1 (HCS) syntax to represent the level of protection prescribed by a policy governing the information to which a label is assigned. The HL7 Healthcare Privacy and Security Classification System (HCS), Release 1 (HCS) can be found at: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?product_id=345 HL7 recommends creating a value set of Confidentiality codes specific to priority US policies as discussed in the HL7 Cross-Paradigm US Regulatory Security Labeling Implementation Guide, which is under development and can be found at: https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/us-security-label-regs/branches/master/index.html For v3 HL7 Confidentiality Codes, see the Confidentiality value set at: https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/UTG/ValueSet-v2-0952.html For background on use of Confidentiality codes, see https://confluence.hl7.org/display/SEC/Use+of+Confidentiality+Codes+in+HL7+Security+Labeling . For use of Confidentiality codes in CDA, see HL7 Implementation Guide: Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P), Release 1. For use of Confidentiality codes in FHIR see http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/security-label-ds4p/2020May/background.html For use of Confidentiality codes in HL7 Version 2, see v2.9 ARV Segment. |
HL7 v3 code systems and value sets, and HL7 standards listed in the Data Elements above, and discussed in the use cases. All be the Cross Paradigm for US Regulatory Security Labeling, FHIR US Regulatory Security Labeling IG, and the FHIR DS4P IG are normative. |
TICIA Louise GERBER | Health Level Seven International | ||
| Level 1 | Vital Signs | Physiologic measurements of a patient that indicate the status of the body’s life sustaining functions. |
Pain Severity | This element is used to describe how intense or severe the sensation of pain is on a 1-10 scale. |
LOINC: 38208-5 Pain severity – Reported |
Dr Susan A Matney | Intermountain Healthcare | |
| Level 1 | Advance Directives | Personal Advance Care Plan | Advance care plan is a general term for any documentation or other recordation of a person’s medical treatment goals, preferences, and priorities for some future point in time, under certain circumstances when the individual cannot make medical treatment decisions or communicate his or her goals, preferences, and priorities with the care team. An advance care plan places an emphasis on communication, as opposed to legal formalities. A PACP is a term specifically defined by HL7 as a template to facilitate the sharing of information expressed in advance care plans. A PACP may include the type of information contained in a living will and/or a durable medical power of attorney, and it also may include other medical interventions experience preference and instructions that help a healthcare agent make treatment decisions on the person’s behalf, and can be used by medical professionals to inform their medical interventions and treatment planning for the patient. Within the family of documents that have been defined under Consolidated CDA, the PACP document can be classified as a type of patient-generated document. The PACP document facilitates digital exchange of information previously and currently captured and shared using paper documents. Digital exchange of this type of data has become particularly critical within the context of COVID-19. To reduce the spread of disease, hospitals have disallowed patient family members and/or representatives to be present when the patient is admitted and as medical interventions are rendered, while also prohibiting acceptance of paper documents due to concerns of contagion. A PACP may include information relating to the appointment of a healthcare agent and alternate agents and establishing their authorized powers and limitations. It also may include information relating to any or all of the following: goals, preferences, and priorities for medical interventions (e.g., palliative and/or hospice care), including medical treatment preferences, based on the patient’s individual values, spiritual and religious beliefs, and personal definitions of quality of life; instructions to be followed after death (e.g., organ donation and autopsy); and information about who has signed, witnessed, and notarized the information authored by the individual, if available and appropriate. The set of recognized kinds of advance directive documents include concepts from the value set: Advance Directives Categories urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.11.20.9.69.4 which is openly available for reference in the National Library of Medicine’s Value Set Authority Center. It can be referenced using this url: https://vsac.nlm.nih.gov/valueset/2.16.840.1.113883.11.20.9.69.4/definition |
HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Personal Advance Care Plan (PACP) Document, Release 1 - US Realm STU Release 2 The PACP document is a CDA document template designed to share information created by an individual to express his or her care and medical treatment goals, preferences, and priorities for some future point in time, under certain circumstances when the individual cannot make medical treatment decisions or communicate his or her goals, preferences, and priorities with the care team. The purpose of the PACP document is to ensure that the information created by the individual is available and considered in clinical care planning, and the focus of the standard is sharing patient generated information. It should not matter if the source information is documented on a piece of paper, in a video recording, or in a consumer-controlled application that exists for this purpose. The standard provides a means to share this information in a standard way with a system that maintains a clinical record for the person. It is not intended to be a legal document or a digitization of a legal document. However, a PACP can reference a legal document, and it can represent information contained in a legal document such as the appointment of healthcare agents and the identity of witnesses or a notary. |
Matt Elrod on behalf of ADVault, Inc. | ADVault, Inc. |