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

Unstructured Examples

Unstructured Document Examples

Name Description Approval
CDA reference PDF

This sample originates from the 2014-11-12 publication. This example shows a CDA document that conforms to the C-CDA Unstructured Document specification using a referenced pdf.

 Approval Pending
CDA with Embedded PDF 1

This sample originates from the 2014 C-CDA R2.0 publication but has been altered for C-CDA 2.1 conformance. This example shows a CDA document that conforms to the C-CDA Unstructured Document specification using an embedded 64-bit encoded pdf. The PDF is a discharge summary.

 2023-03-09
CDA with Embedded PDF 2

This example shows a CDA document that conforms to the C-CDA Unstructured Document specification using an embedded 64-bit encoded pdf. It also conforms to the HL7 Personal Advance Care Plan specification and the C-CDA Patient Generated Document header.

 2018-10-01
CDA with Embedded Text plain

This example shows a CDA document that conforms to the C-CDA Unstructured Document specification using an embedded text plain document (base 64 encoded). When decoded it will show a surgical consult note. Note that the HL7 standard stylesheet will show this natively

 2020-12-17