Open C-CDA files in your browser
The XML a patient portal hands you when you download your health record, often a CCD, a Continuity of Care Document. Open it right here as a chart you can read, with no portal or EHR. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your record opens as a chart you can read: each section's entries in a table, results with their ranges and flags, and the record's own words under each one.
- Problems, medicines and allergies • Each in a table
- Results and vital signs • With their ranges and flags
- Patient data hidden until you show it
- Export • Save as PDF, or the tables as CSV
About C-CDA
HL7 International published Consolidated CDA in 2011, gathering the Clinical Document Architecture's templates for the documents US health records exchange. Every certified EHR lets you view, download and send your record as one, most often a Continuity of Care Document, and discharge summaries, referral notes and visit notes are C-CDAs too.
A C-CDA is one XML document: a header naming the patient, the authors and the organization, then sections, each with its narrative for people to read and its entries coded for computers in LOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNorm and CVX. Portals often put a stylesheet beside it, CDA.xsl, which browsers won't run on a file from your disk.
Filepeek reads it in your browser into a chart: allergies, medicines, problems, results with their ranges and flags, vital signs, vaccines, procedures, visits, history, plans and insurance, each section's entries in a table and its narrative as text, never as a page. The patient's details stay hidden on the record until Show patient data, no stylesheet runs, and Export saves the chart as a PDF or its tables as CSV.
Consolidated CDA health record
.xml
Format
- MIME type
- application/xml
- Made by
- HL7 International
- Released
- 2011
Inside the file
- Kept as
- XML, HL7's CDA Release 2
- Header
- The patient, the authors and the organization
- Sections
- Each with its narrative and coded entries
- Codes
- LOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNorm and CVX
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens C-CDA and CCD files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, from any certified EHR. On their own, browsers show them as code.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open C-CDA
- WindowsNo app built in reads it • A browser shows its XML
- MacNo app built in reads it • A browser shows its XML
- iPhone and iPadHealth can add it to your health records
- AndroidNo app built in reads it
Questions
How do I download my health record as a C-CDA?
In your patient portal, look for Download, Health summary or Visit summary, often under Health record or Sharing. Most portals hand you a ZIP of the XML, a stylesheet and an INDEX.HTM, which opens here as it is.
Why does the file show only code, or a blank page?
A C-CDA is XML written for EHRs to read, and the stylesheet portals put beside it to show it as a page doesn't run on a file from your disk. Filepeek reads the XML itself, so it never needs the stylesheet.
What's the difference between a CCD and a C-CDA?
C-CDA is the family of document templates, and the CCD, the Continuity of Care Document, is the one portals use for a whole summary. Discharge summaries, referral notes and visit notes are C-CDAs too, and each opens here with the sections it has.
Can I print my record?
Yes. Export saves the chart as a PDF as it shows, the patient's details only once you've shown them, or its tables as CSV.
Is my health record uploaded?
No. It is read in your browser and stays on your device. Your name, birthday and address stay hidden until you choose Show patient data.