National Health Care Surveys (NHCS) IG Release 1 Validator
Notice
The purpose of this site is to facilitate testing of National Health Care Surveys CDA XML documents conformant to HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA® Release 2: National Health Care Surveys (NHCS), Release 1 - US Realm HL7 Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU), December 2014 for certification and other purposes.
Release 1.0 of the National Health Care Surveys IG was identified in the Modified Stage 2 and Stage 3 Final Rule and 2015 Edition Final Rule as the format and standard to be used by EHRs and HIT modules to fulfill certification criteria § 170.315(f)(7) Transmission to Public Health Agencies - health care surveys. It is important to note that ONC issued a revised Certification Companion Guide (CCG) on May, 2017 that “Clarified that ONC will permit and provide testing and certification for conformance to NHCS IG Release 1.2 to meet this criterion; and will not require the retesting and certification of health IT previously certified to NHCS Release 1.0.” (See 2015Ed_CCG_f7-Trans-PHA-health-care-surveys.pdf). The NHCS IG Release 1.2 Validation Tool is located here: https://cda-validation.nist.gov/cda-validation/muNHCS12.html.
It is also important to note, that the National Health Care Surveys (NHCS) strongly prefers developers and implementers to use NHCS IG Release 1.2 to fulfill certification criteria § 170.315(f)(7). (See http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_id=385)
For more information on the National Health Care Surveys see https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dhcs/meaningful_use.htm
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muNchsValidation-1.1.3-20191219.tar.gz -- This release (dated December 19, 2019) contains the schematron fules for National Health Care Surveys Release 1.0, DSTU Validation Tool. It also includes the .war file download for location installation and a command-line version. Please read the included README.txt for more information. This is the more recent release.
muNchsValidation-1.1.3-20170303.tar.gz -- This release (dated March 3rd, 2017) contains the schematron fules for National Health Care Surveys Release 1.0, DSTU Validation Tool. It also includes the .war file download for location installation and a command-line version. Please read the included README.txt for more information.
muNchsValidation-1.1.2-20160916.tar.gz -- This release (dated September 16th, 2016) contains the schematron fules for National Health Care Surveys Release 1.0, DSTU Validation Tool. It also includes the .war file download for location installation and a command-line version. Please read the included README.txt for more information.
muNchsValidation-1.1.1-20160816.tar.gz -- This release (dated August 16th, 2016) contains the schematron fules for National Health Care Surveys Release 1.0, DSTU Validation Tool. It also includes the .war file download for location installation and a command-line version. Please read the included README.txt for more information.
muNchsValidation-1.1.0-20160422.tar.gz -- This release (dated April 22nd, 2016) contains the schematron fules for National Health Care Surveys Release 1.0, DSTU Validation Tool. It also includes the .war file download for location installation and a command-line version. Please read the included README.txt for more information.
muNchsValidation-1.0-20151223.tar.gz -- This release (dated December 23rd, 2015) contains the schematron rules for National Health Care Surveys Release 1.1, DSTU Validation Tool. It also includes the .war file download for local installation. Please read the included README.txt file for more information.
muNchsValidation-0.91-BETA-20151119.tar.gz -- This BETA release (dated November 19th, 2015) contains the schematron rules for National Health Care Surveys Release 1.1, DSTU Validation Tool. It also includes the .war file download for local installation. Please read the included README.txt file for more information.
muNchsValidation-0.9-BETA-20151029.tar.gz -- This BETA release (dated October 29th, 2015) contains the schematron rules for National Health Care Surveys Release 1.1, DSTU Validation Tool. It also includes the .war file download for local installation. Please read the included README.txt file for more information.
In compliance with HIPAA Requirements, parties using the NIST National Healthcare Surveys Validation Tool via this NIST Web site shall not use real data about living, identifiable individuals. Parties shall adhere to all Federal Regulations including, but not limited to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Due to patient confidentiality issues (e.g., HIPAA requirements regarding PHI), this software should not be used via the NIST Web site for validation of messages containing real patient information. With proper precautions in place to maintain patient confidentiality, if an organization downloads the Validation Tool and uses it locally the Tool can validate messages with real patient information.