USCDI Export for the Public

Classification Level Sort descending Data Class Data Class Description Data Element Data Element Description Applicable Standards Submitter Name Submitter Organization Submission Date
Draft USCDI V3

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. 
Progress Note

Represents a patient’s interval status during a hospitalization, outpatient visit, treatment with a post-acute care provider, or other healthcare encounter.

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) version 2.71

  • Progress Note (LOINC® code 11506-3)
Draft USCDI V3

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

Gender Identity

A person’s internal sense of being a man, woman, both, or neither.

Gender Identify must be coded in accordance with SNOMED CT® and HL7 Version 3 Standard, Value Sets for AdministrativeGender and NullFlavor, attributed as follows:

  • Male. 446151000124109
  • Female. 446141000124107
  • Female-to-Male (FTM)/Transgender Male/Trans Man. 407377005
  • Male-to-Female (MTF)/Transgender Female/Trans Woman. 407376001
  • Genderqueer, neither exclusively male nor female. 446131000124102
  • Additional gender category or other, please specify. nullFlavor OTH
  • Choose not to disclose. nullFlavor ASKU

Adopted at 45 CFR 170.207(o)(2)

A. Taylor ONC
Draft USCDI V3

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.

Pregnancy Status

Indicator that a patient is currently pregnant, not pregnant, or that their pregnancy status is unknown currently, as it relates to potential risks and exposures.

Adam Bazer, MPD Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise USA (IHE USA)
Draft USCDI V3

Information about a person who participates or is expected to participate in the care of a patient.

Care Team Member Telecom

Electronic contact information of a provider or other care team member

  • 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 (incorporated by reference in § 170.299); and
  • 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
Keith W. Boone Audacious Inquiry
Draft USCDI V3

Physiologic measurements of a patient that indicate the status of the body’s life sustaining functions.

BMI Percentile (2 - 20 years)
  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) version 2.71
  • The Unified Code of Units for Measure, Revision 2.1
Draft USCDI V3

Information related to interactions between healthcare providers and a patient.

Encounter Type Joel Andress Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ)
Draft USCDI V3

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

Sex (Assigned at Birth)

Birth sex must be coded in accordance with HL7 Version 3 (V3) Standard, Value Sets for AdministrativeGender and NullFlavor attributed as follows:

  • Female. F
  • Male. M
  • Unknown. nullFlavor UNK

Adopted at 45 CFR 170.207(n) 

Draft USCDI V3

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

Last Name
Draft USCDI V3

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. 
History & Physical

Documents the current and past conditions and observations of the patient.

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) version 2.71

  • Discharge Summary (LOINC® code 34117-2)
Draft USCDI V3

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.

Mental Function

Represents observations related to a patient's current level of cognitive functioning, including alertness, orientation, comprehension, concentration, and immediate memory for simple commands.

  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) version 2.71
Michelle Dougherty Submitted on behalf of the CMS Data Element Library (DEL) Health IT Workgroup
Draft USCDI V3

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

Previous Address

Includes street name, number, city/town, state, and zip code.

Draft USCDI V3

Physiologic measurements of a patient that indicate the status of the body’s life sustaining functions.

Heart Rate
  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) version 2.71
  • The Unified Code of Units for Measure, Revision 2.1
Draft USCDI V3

Activity performed for or on a patient as part of the provision of care.

Procedures
  • SNOMED International, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) U.S. Edition, January 2022 Release
  • Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2021, as maintained and distributed by the American Medical Association, for physician services and other health care services, and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS), as maintained and distributed by HHS.
  • For technology primarily developed to record dental procedures: Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (CDT), maintained and distributed by the American Dental Association, for dental services.

Optional:

  • International Classification of Diseases ICD-10-PCS 2021
Draft USCDI V3

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

Sexual Orientation

A person’s identification of their emotional, romantic, sexual, or affectional attraction to another person

Sexual orientation must be coded in accordance with SNOMED CT® and HL7 Version 3 Standard, Value Sets for AdministrativeGender and NullFlavor, attributed as follows:

  • Lesbian, gay or homosexual. 38628009
  • Straight or heterosexual. 20430005
  • Bisexual. 42035005
  • Something else, please describe. nullFlavor OTH
  • Don't know. nullFlavor UNK
  • Choose not to disclose. nullFlavor ASKU

Adopted at 45 CFR 170.207(o)(1)

A. Taylor ONC
Draft USCDI V3

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

Specimen Type

Type of specimen (e.g., nasopharyngeal swab, whole blood, serum, urine, wound swab) on which a lab test is performed.

Nedra Garrett Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Draft USCDI V3

Physiologic measurements of a patient that indicate the status of the body’s life sustaining functions.

Body Temperature
  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) version 2.71
  • The Unified Code of Units for Measure, Revision 2.1
Draft USCDI V3

The metadata, or extra information about data, regarding who created the data and when it was created.

Author Organization

Organization associated with author.

Draft USCDI V3

Physiologic measurements of a patient that indicate the status of the body’s life sustaining functions.

Head Occipital-frontal Circumference Percentile (Birth - 36 Months)
  • Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®) version 2.71
  • The Unified Code of Units for Measure, Revision 2.1
Draft USCDI V3

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

Tribal Affiliation
  • HL7 FHIR: US Public Health Tribal Affiliation extension HL7 CDA: Tribal Affiliation template HL7 Value Set: TribalEntityUS
Laura Conn
Draft USCDI V3

Information related to interactions between healthcare providers and a patient.

Encounter Time

Represents a date/time related to an encounter (e.g., scheduled appointment time, check in time, start and stop times).

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