USCDI Export for the Public

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Narrative patient data relevant to the context identified by note types.

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  • Usage note: Clinical Notes data elements are content exchange standard agnostic. They should not be interpreted or associated with the structured document templates that may share the same name. 

Summary of a patient’s interval status during an encounter.

Examples include but are not limited to hospitalization, outpatient visit, and treatment with a post-acute care provider, or other healthcare encounter.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) version 2.73
    • At minimum: Progress Note (LOINC code 11506-3)
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Desired state to be achieved by a patient.

Desired outcomes of patient's care.

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Assessments of a health-related matter of interest, importance, or worry to a patient, patient’s authorized representative, or patient’s healthcare provider that could identify a need, problem, or condition.

Health-related issue or worry.

Examples include but are not limited to weight gain and cancer risk.

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Record of vaccine administration.

Vaccine product administered, planned, or reported.

Both standards are required:

  • IIS: Current HL7 Standard Code Set, CVX –
    Vaccines Administered, updates through December 19, 2022
  • Vaccine National Drug Code (NDC) Directory – Vaccine
    NDC Linker Table, updates through December 20, 2022
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Analysis of clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient.

Analysis of specimens derived from humans which provide information for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment of disease, or assessment of health.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) version 2.73
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Analysis of clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient.

Documented findings of a tested specimen including structured and unstructured components.

  • Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) U.S. Edition, September 2022 Release
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Pharmacologic agents used in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.

Pharmacologic agent used in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.

  • RxNorm® Full Monthly Release January 3, 2023

Optional:

  • National Drug Code (NDC), January 6, 2023
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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

Name component following family name that may be used to describe a person's position in a family.

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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

Documentation of a specific instance of sex and/or gender information.

SNOMED International, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) U.S. Edition, September 2022 Release

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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

Known or estimated year, month, and day of the patient's birth.

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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

Both standards are required:

  • The Office of Management and Budget Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, as revised, October 30, 1997
  • CDC Race and Ethnicity Code Set Version 1.2 (July 2021)
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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

Both standards are required:

  • The Office of Management and Budget Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, as revised, October 30, 1997
  • CDC Race and Ethnicity Code Set Version 1.2 (July 2021)
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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

  • IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Request for Comment (RFC) 5646, “Tags for Identifying Languages”, September 2009

Adopted at 45 CFR 170.207(g)(2)

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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

Place where a person is located or may be contacted

  • Project US@ Technical Specification for Patient Addresses, Final Version 1.0
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Data used to categorize individuals for identification, records matching, and other purposes.

Numbers and symbols to contact an individual when using a phone.

Both standards are required

  • ITU-T E.123, Series E: Overall Network Operation, Telephone Service, Service Operation and Human Factors, International operation - General provisions concerning users: Notation for national and international telephone numbers, email addresses and web addresses, February 2001
  • ITU-T E.164, Series E: Overall Network Operation, Telephone Service, Service Operation and Human Factors, International operation - Numbering plan of the international telephone service, The international public telecommunication numbering plan, November 2010

Adopted at 45 CFR 170.207(q)(1)

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Condition, diagnosis, or reason for seeking medical attention.

Condition, diagnosis, or reason for seeking medical attention.

  • Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) U.S. Edition, September 2022 Release
  • International Classification of Diseases ICD-10-CM 2022