Indivo Document Model

Introduction
The purpose of this page is to describe various elements within our document standard and how those elements should be populated within the Indivo environment. Each section will describe the basic concept behind the XML schema that describes the document, and specific definitions and usage examples for leaf elements.

Please visit our website for a comprehensive, high-level discussion of our document standard and the motivations behind it.

Core Document Structure
The main unit of data storage within an Indivo Record is the Indivo Document, which is made up of a document header (containing useful metadata) and a list of versions. Each version contains a version header and a version body. The version body contains the payload, i.e. the core data of the document.

Version bodies will most often contain payloads extending the PersonalHealthData element, which defines a set of common fields shared among most medical documents. See the detailed descriptions of each medical document type for usage instructions.

For more information

 * Indivo Document - overview and schema description
 * PersonalHealthData - overview and schema description

Codes and Coding Systems
Indivo has adopted a code-based representation to populate many values in the system's personal health documents. The purpose is to have a consistent, machine-understandable value for all potentially encodable fields. For example, rather than define the medication dose unit as a string -- into which one could create inconsistencies in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, etc. -- we require the use of a code specified by a CodedValueType, which is defined in some coding system.

Additionally, since coded value fields can take any kind of code as input, developers and data providers aren't bound to a fixed, schema-based enumeration of options.

For more information

 * Coding Systems - overview, instructions for using web service, schema descriptions, and list of natively-supported coding systems
 * CodedValueType - schema description

Medical Document Types

 * Allergy
 * Demographics
 * Discharge Summary
 * Encounter
 * Equipment
 * Family History
 * Immunization
 * Insurance
 * Lab Test
 * Medication
 * Microbiology Test
 * Note
 * Problem
 * Procedure
 * Proxy
 * Questionnaire
 * Radiology Report
 * Vital Measurement

Other Document Types

 * Annotation
 * Contact
 * Common Types
 * Message