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Draft USCDI V7

Information that guides treatment of the patient and recommendations for future treatment.

Shared plan informed by members of a coordinated care team that details conditions, needs, and goals along with strategies for addressing them.

Usage notes: Includes problems, health concerns, assessments, goals, and interventions from across care settings.

Examples include but are not limited to clinical care plans, condition-specific care plans, coordinated care plan.

Julia Skapik NACHC
Draft USCDI V7

Analysis of clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient.

Information about a specimen, including the container, that is used to determine a laboratory’s criteria for acceptability. 

Usage note: This may include information about the contents of the container, the container, and the label. 

Examples include but are not limited to hemolyzed, clotted, container leaking, and missing patient name. 

  • SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) U.S. Edition
  • Health Level 7® (HL7) Code System SpecimenCondition
Han Tran College of American Pathologists (CAP)
Draft USCDI V7

Analysis of clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient.

Upper and lower limit of quantitative test values expected for a designated population of individuals. 

Usage note: Reference range values may differ by patient characteristics, laboratory test manufacturer, and laboratory test performer.

  • The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM)
Nedra Y Garrett CDC
Draft USCDI V7

Analysis of clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient.

Unit of measurement to report quantitative results. 

  • The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM)
Nedra Y Garrett CDC
Draft USCDI V7

Tests that result in visual images requiring interpretation by a credentialed professional.

The information that can be used to access a diagnostic imaging study.
Examples include but are not limited to imaging study endpoint weblink, unique identifiers, and contextual information needed to retrieve a diagnostic imaging study.

LOINC/RSNA Radiology Playbook includes Diagnostic Imaging Procedure Codes and Descriptions. HL7 Standard for CDA® Release 2: Imaging Integration; Basic Imaging Reports in CDA and DICOM Release 1 references LOINC® Document Type Codes, SNOMED CT® Quantity Measurement Type Codes, as well as DICOM Code Systems. FHIR ImagingStudy references SNOMED CT Body Structures

Brian Bialecki American College of Radiology
Draft USCDI V7

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

Evaluation of a patient's current or usual exercise.

Examples include but are not limited to frequency of muscle-strengthening physical activity, days per week with moderate to strenuous physical activity, and minutes per day of moderate to strenuous physical activity.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®)
Laurie P. Whitsel American Heart Association/Physical Activity Alliance
Draft USCDI V7

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 care delivered in an emergency department.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
    • At minimum: Emergency department note (LOINC code 34111-5)
Smitha Vellanky, on behalf of Joel Andress and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) On behalf of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ)
Draft USCDI V7

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

Physiological administration path of a therapeutic agent into or onto a patient. 

Examples include but are not limited to oral, topical, and intravenous. 

  • SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) U.S. Edition
  • National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIt), FDA Structured Product Labeling (SPL) Terminology
Smitha Vellanky, on behalf of Joel Andress and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) On behalf of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ)
Draft USCDI V7

Harmful or undesired physiological responses associated with exposure to a substance.

Estimate of the potential clinical harm, or seriousness, of a reaction to an identified substance.

HL7 FHIR R4 Allergy Intolerance Criticality, Rx Norm, SNOMED CT, National Drug Code (NDC)

Sandi Mitchell J P Systems, Inc.
Draft USCDI V7

Unintended effects associated with clinical interventions.

Result or impact of an adverse event.
Examples include but are not limited to hospitalized, recovered, recovered with sequelae, and death.

HL7.org FHIR R4 v4.0

Sandi Mitchell J P Systems, Inc.
Draft USCDI V7

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

Assessment of a person’s dietary intake.

LOINC 75304-6 Nutrition status observation panel

Michelle Ashafa Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Draft USCDI V7

Record of vaccine administration.

Sequence of characters representing a specific quantity of manufactured material within a batch of a vaccine product.

Sandi Mitchell J P Systems, Inc.
Draft USCDI V7

Analysis of clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient.

Technique or procedure used to obtain a specimen. 
Examples include but are not limited to venipuncture, swab, biopsy, aspiration, and catheter collection.

SNOMED CT®

Sanjeev Tandon on behalf of CDC CDC
Draft USCDI V7

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

Indication of whether a person needs language interpretation services.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
  • SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®) U.S. Edition
Scott Stare CMS Office of Minority Health
Draft USCDI V7

Provider-authored request for the delivery of patient care services.

 Usage notes: Orders convey a provider’s intent to have a service performed on or for a patient, or to give instructions on future care.

Provider-authored request for the performance of a laboratory test.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
Joel Andress Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ)
Draft USCDI V7

Provider-authored request for the delivery of patient care services.

 Usage notes: Orders convey a provider’s intent to have a service performed on or for a patient, or to give instructions on future care.

Provider-authored request for the dispensing of a therapeutic agent.

  • RxNorm® Full Monthly Release
Joel Andress Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ)
Draft USCDI V7

Provider-authored request for the delivery of patient care services.

 Usage notes: Orders convey a provider’s intent to have a service performed on or for a patient, or to give instructions on future care.

Provider-authored request for the performance of a diagnostic imaging study.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
Joel Andress Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ)
Draft USCDI V7

Provider-authored request for the delivery of patient care services.

 Usage notes: Orders convey a provider’s intent to have a service performed on or for a patient, or to give instructions on future care.

Provider-authored request for the performance of a diagnostic or therapeutic intervention.

Joel Andress Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ)
Draft USCDI V7

Provider-authored request for the delivery of patient care services.

 Usage notes: Orders convey a provider’s intent to have a service performed on or for a patient, or to give instructions on future care.

Provider-authored request for the performance of a non-laboratory or non-imaging test.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)
Joel Andress Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ)
Draft USCDI V7

An instrument, machine, appliance, implant, software or other article intended to be used for a medical purpose.

Numeric or alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies a medical device. 

Usage note: Contains a device identifier (DI) and may contain one or more production identifiers (PI).

  • FDA Unique Device Identification (UDI) System
Marti Velezis FDA/CDRH/Indira Konduri (FDA/CDRH/OPEQ/ORP/DRPIII)