The CCD specification is a constraint on the HL7 Clinical<unk>  Architecture (CDA) standard. The CDA specifies that the content of the<unk>  consists of a mandatory textual part (which ensures human interpretation of the<unk>  contents) and optional structured parts (for software processing). The structured part is based on the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) and provides a framework for referring to concepts from coding systems, such as SNOMED or LOINC. The patient summary contains a core data set of the most relevant administrative, demographic, and clinical information facts about a patient's healthcare, covering one or more healthcare encounters. It provides a means for one healthcare practitioner, system, or setting to aggregate all of the pertinent data about a patient and forward it to another practitioner, system, or setting to support the<unk>  of<unk> . Its primary use case is to provide a snapshot in time containing the pertinent clinical, demographic, and administrative data for a specific patient. The CCD specification contains U.S. specific requirements; its use is therefore limited to the U.S. The U.S. Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel has selected the CCD as one of its standards. CCDs are quickly becoming one of the most ubiquitous and thorough means of transferring health data on patients as each can contain vast amounts of data based on the standard format, in a relatively easy to use and portable file.
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