Multimedia objects (e.g., PDF representations of the CDA document, pictures, Reiber
diagrams, electrophoresis, etc.) MAY be integrated into a CDA document, either by
reference to external multimedia objects or by means of XML embedding.
This template defines only the embedding of multimedia objects in the CDA document.
References to external documents can be created with the ExternalDocument template.
For embedding in XML, the multimedia objects Base-64 must be encoded.
Due to the amount of data, only light objects should be embedded.
Heavy objects should be integrated using links to external documents.
Context
Parent nodes of template element with id 2.16.756.5.30.1.1.10.4.83
Label
CDA‑CH V2
Classification
CDA Entry Level Template
Open/Closed
Open (other than defined elements are allowed)
Used by / Uses
Used by 6 transactions and 8 templates, Uses 0 templates
MUST contain the OID of the system that issued the ID. OIDs of code systems, which
are published in the public OID registry for the Swiss health care system (oid.refdata.ch)
are REQUIRED. Others are NOT ALLOWED.
@extension
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0 … 1
Contains the ID itself. The ID MUST be unique within the system that issued the ID.
The RFC 1766 (ISO-639-1 and ISO 3166) based language in which the multimedia object
is written. If it isn't known or not available (e.g. for pictures), use nullFlavor
instead.