improved

March 15, 2023

Occasionally, CommonWell and Carequality participants respond to patient history requests with CDA documents respondents that have other binaries (e.g., PDFs, text, images) embedded within them. As of last week, we are extracting these embedded binaries and storing them to ODS.

We link non-XML binaries to their parent CDAs. DocumentReferences for non-XML binaries have a pointer to the parent document in the relatesTo field.

You can search for non-XML binaries using the contentType parameter on DocumentReference resource type, e.g.: DocumentReference?contenttype=application/pdf.