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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. 

Narrative 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 2.80
    • At minimum: Progress note (LOINC code 11506-3)
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Desired state to be achieved by a person or a person’s elections to guide care.

Desired outcomes of patient’s care.

Examples include but are not limited to blood pressure control, functional ability, nutrition, and food security.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
  • SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) U.S. Edition
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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:

  • CVX – Vaccines Administered
  • National Drug Code (NDC)
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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®) 
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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.

  • SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) U.S. Edition
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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® 

Optional:

  • National Drug Code (NDC)
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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.

Both values must be supported: 

  • SNOMED CT U.S. Edition: 248152002 (Female)
  • SNOMED CT U.S. Edition: 248153007 (Male)
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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
  • CDC Race and Ethnicity Code Set
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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
  • CDC Race and Ethnicity Code Set
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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”

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. 

Usage note: If the address pattern is not supported in the standard, implementations should align as closely as possible and avoid truncating any values. 

  • Project US@ Technical Specification for Patient Addresses
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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
  • TU-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.

Examples include but are not limited to diabetes, asthma, homelessness, food insecurity, and lead exposure.

  • SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) U.S. Edition
  • International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM)