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The concepts describing how care is documented: health records, extracts, reports, and the repositories that share them.
health record extract
part or all of a health record extracted for the purpose of communication

Health records
The concepts describing how care is documented: health records, extracts, reports, and the repositories that share them.
- record template
  information model that is a template for recording a care record
- care data
  data produced during care activities
- care information
  information about a person relevant to their care
- care documenting
  care activity where health records are created or maintained
- health record
  data repository regarding the health and care of a subject of care
- professional health record
  health record held under the responsibility of one care provider and maintained by care professionals
- personal health record
  health record held and maintained by the subject of care or a subject of care proxy
- shareable data repository
  data repository containing health record extracts, accessible for duly authorized care actors independent of their organizational affiliation and placed under the custody of a care actor
- health record extract
  part or all of a health record extracted for the purpose of communication
- social record extract
  part or all of a social record extracted for the purpose of communication
- health report
  health record extract conveying specifically focused care information in order to fulfil current information needs of the recipient
- social care report
  social record extract conveying specifically focused social care information in order to fulfil current information needs of the recipient
- discharge report
  health report concerning a completed mandated period of care
- health summary
  electronic health record extract containing essential care information intended for specific uses
- discharge summary
  discharge report summarizing a mandated period of care
- health concern
  health record extract that includes all health record components associated with a health thread
- summarized care information repository
  data repository containing summarized information for care coordination and the continuity of care
- care communication
  care activity where two or more care actors communicate
- non-ratified care information
  care information the relevance of which has not been assessed and explicitly stated as valid by a care professional
- care information for import
  care information that is a candidate for import into a professional health record after a care professional has confirmed its clinical relevance to that professional health record
- care information request
  request sent out by a care actor to another care actor for specific care information needed for the provision of care to a subject of care
- health certificate
  official document issued by a care actor attesting to the relevant health matters of a subject of care
- health record component
  part of a health record that is identifiable for the purposes of referencing and revision
- folder
  record component used for creating hierarchical structures within an electronic health record extract and with compositions as leaf nodes
- composition
  health record component containing information composed during one clinical encounter or documentation session, and committed within one health record
- entry
  health record component that represents the data documenting one observation or a series of related observations, or a statement, an explanation of reasoning, a care intention, plan or action

health record extract

part or all of a health record extracted for the purpose of communication

health record extract extends the class information

Table 1. Associations of health record extract
Source multiplicity	Source class	Association	Target class	Target multiplicity
1..*	health record extract	extracted from	shareable data repository	0..*
1..*	health record extract	extracted from (1)	health record	0..*
0..*	health record extract	imported into	data repository	1..*
1..*	care information request	topic for	health record extract	0..*
1..*	health matter	labels (1)	health record extract	1
0..*	health record component	aggregation of	health record extract	1..*
1..*	mandate to export personal information	implies the right to communicate	health record extract	1..*

Figure 1. Class Diagram

Plural health record extracts

Note 1 This document defines one health record extract specialization ‒ the electronic health record extract. However, as the content of a health record is not limited to information in electronic format, the content of health record extracts may be in formats other than electronic.