Continuity of Care Document (CCD)

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This page contains information about HL7's continuity of care document (CCD).

CCD Schematron Rules (Latest Release)

• Updated CCD schematron rules - (June 14, 2011) (zip)
  • Modified rules for the following templates: 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.48, 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.51, and 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.57. Corrects typos in several XPath statements related to patient IDs and an incorrect implementation of the rules for problem health status observation.

Previous versions

• Updated CCD schematron rules - (August 25, 2009) (zip)
  • Modified rules for template 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.18 (Alert Observation). Corrects a bug that was reporting errors when more than one agent participant was present in an alert observation.
• Updated CCD schematron rules - (January 29, 2009) (zip)
  • Modified rules for template 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.18 (Alert Observation). The SHALLs in CONF statements 274-279 are conditional, and should only be tested when an agent particpant is present.
• Updated CCD schematron rules - (July 08, 2008) (zip)
  • Added missing constraints for the Product template (templateId 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.53).
• Updated CCD schematron rules - (Dec 05, 2007) (zip)
  • Updates to the following templates. Corrects some xpath context errors.
  • 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.18
  • 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.34
  • 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.57
  • 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.1.52
• Updated CCD schematron rules - Moved a rule for the vital signs organizer template out of the vital signs section template. Fixed typeCode validation errors in the Medication series number observation and Patient instruction templates (Oct 22, 2007) (zip)
• Updated CCD schematron rules - Fixes various typeCode checking errors and some datatype checking bugs. (Oct 16, 2007) (zip)
• Updated CCD schematron rules - Added correct LOINC code for coverage activity. Increases use of voc.xml for vocabulary validation. Other minor corrections. (Sept 14, 2007) (zip)
• Updated CCD schematron rules - Fixes some bugs in code and unit validation (Aug 03, 2007) (zip)
• Updated CCD schematron rules - includes compiled XSL files (July 20, 2007) (zip)
• Updated CCD schematron rules (April 18, 2007) (zip)
• CCD schematron rules (March 22, 2007) (zip)