US Quality Core Implementation Guide
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This page is part of the US Quality Core Implementation Guide (v1.0.0-ballot: STU 1 Ballot 1) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. No current official version has been published yet. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Example Communication: CommunicationDone example

Page standards status: Informative

partOf: Serum Potassium Observation

status: On Hold

statusReason: Recipient Unavailable

category: Alert

medium: written

subject: Example Patient Male, DoB: 1974-12-25 ( Medical record number (use: usual, period: 2001-05-06 --> (ongoing)))

topic: Hyperkalemia

encounter: Encounter: identifier = http://hospital.example.org/encounter-ids#ENC-2026-987654 (use: official, ); status = finished; class = inpatient encounter (ActCode#IMP); type = Hospital admission; priority = urgent; period = 2026-08-01 10:30:00-0400 --> 2026-08-05 14:00:00-0400

sent: 2026-08-05 13:01:10-0400

received: 2026-08-05 13:01:11-0400

recipient: Practitioner Example Practitioner

sender: Example Hospital

payload

content: Example Patient has a very high serum potassium value (7.2 mmol/L on 2026-Aug-05 at 12:55 pm)

payload

content: Serum Potassium Observation