CDA Examples
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CDA Examples, published by Health Level Seven. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/CDA-Examples/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Header Examples

C-CDA Header Examples

Name Description Approval
Care Team In Transition of Care Documents

This is an example of how to include Care Team information for 170.315_b1 Ambulatory test data

 2017-02-02
Direct Address

This demonstrates a patient with a Patient DirectTrust Address and a Provider Organization with a Covered Entity DirectTrust Address.

 2017-11-30
Masked Social Security Number

This is an example of how to represent a social security number (SSN) that has been masked to show only the last four digits.

 2019-10-10
Multiple Patient Identifiers

This demonstrates a patient with multiple identifiers from different institutions.

 2017-10-05
Patient Aliases

Best practices for sending one or more patient aliases

 2020-05-28
Patient Birth Name

This example illustrates how to structure Patient’s birth name, which is a special case of previous name.

 2016-07-07, 2017-02-02
Patient Deceased

This is an example of how to use sdtc extension of deceasedInd. See this site for more on CDA extensions: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=CDA_R2_Extensions

 2019-06-27
Patient Demographic Information

This example illustrates how to structure Patient Demographics for the 170.314(b)(2) Transitions of care - A) Patient Demographics.

 2015-10-15, 2017-02-02
Patient Previous Name

This example illustrates how to structure Patient’s previous name.

 2023-03-09
Patient With Prior Addresses

This example illustrates how to structure multiple past addresses for a patient

 2018-10-01
Person Name Formatting

This example demonstrates the idea that name pieces should be sent in a logical display order (ie such that a receiver which only extracts the text and ignores the markup around <given>, <family>, etc. would still display the name in a way a human would interpret correctly).

 2019-10-10