This elements represents the organization that is in charge of maintaining the document.
This information is required by the CDA R2 standard and shall be recorded in the ClinicalDocument/custodian/assignedCustodian/ representedCustodianOrganization element.
The representedCustodianOrganization SHALL have:
the name, addr and telecom elements (nullFlavor allowed), due to constrains derived
by the H&P specification (see § 5 Constraints)
the id element from the CDA R2 model
Classification
CDA Header Level Template
Open/Closed
Open (other than defined elements are allowed)
Used by / Uses
Used by 11 transactions and 34 templates, Uses 0 templates
If there is no information, the nullFlavor attribute shall have a value of 'NI' and
the "value" and "use" attributes shall be omitted, otherwise the nullFlavor attribute
shall not be present, and the "value" and "use" attributes shall be present.
Optionalities and Cardinalities of the following two items shall be interpreted according
to this rule: e.g. is not expected to have two nullFlavored telecom elements.