---
type: "example"
title: "Communication Example: communication-example"
resource: "Communication"
example: "communication-example"
---
# Communication Example: communication-example

## Narrative

Patient has very high serum potassium

## Example XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Communication xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://hl7.org/fhir ../../schema/communication.xsd">
  <id value="example"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Patient has very high serum potassium</div>
  </text>
  <identifier>
    <type>
      <text value="Paging System"/>
    </type>
    <system value="urn:oid:1.3.4.5.6.7"/>
    <value value="2345678901"/>
  </identifier>
  <partOf>
	<display value="Serum Potassium Observation"/>
  </partOf>
  <status value="completed"/>
  <category>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://acme.org/messagetypes"/>
      <code value="Alert"/>
    </coding>
    <text value="Alert"/>
  </category>
  <medium>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ParticipationMode"/>
      <code value="WRITTEN"/>
      <display value="written"/>
    </coding>
    <text value="written"/>
  </medium>
  <subject>
    <reference value="Patient/example"/>
  </subject>
  
  <encounter>
    <reference value="Encounter/example"/>
  </encounter>
  <sent value="2014-12-12T18:01:10-08:00"/>
  <received value="2014-12-12T18:01:11-08:00"/>
  <recipient>
    <reference value="Practitioner/example"/>
  </recipient>
  <sender>
    <reference value="Device/f001"/>
  </sender>
  
  <payload>
    <contentCodeableConcept>
		<text value="Patient 1 has a very high serum potassium value (7.2 mmol/L on 2014-Dec-12 at 5:55 pm)"/>
	</contentCodeableConcept>
  </payload>
  <payload>
    <!--Reference to the lab result -->
    <contentReference>
      <display value="Serum Potassium Observation"/>
    </contentReference>
  </payload>
</Communication>
```