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Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Posted in CDA, HL7 Standards | View Comments
One of the most common ways to integrate the HL7 CDA Standard into existing solutions is to create a CDA document from an HL7 Version 2 message. Three HL7 Version 2 messages are commonly used to do this: MDM_T02, ORU_R01, and ADT_* messages. The way that... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Posted in CDA, HL7 Terms | View Comments
CDA stands for Clinical Document Architecture, and it is under the HL7 umbrella of healthcare standards. What is HL7 CDA? It is a healthcare standard which uses XML for encoding of documents and breaks down the document in generic, unnamed, and non-templ... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Posted in CDA, EHR, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare Standards | View Comments
When the ONC released the Standards and Certification NPRM, the companion to the CMS Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM, the new standard for the electronic transfer of Care Summary was defined as §170.205(a)(3) Consolidated CDA. CCD, along with CCR, was the st... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Posted in CCD, CDA, EHR, EMR, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, HIE, Meaningful Use | View Comments
The primary characteristic of a CDA document is that it must be readable by humans. The CDA specification states that, “human readability guarantees that a receiver of a CDA document can algorithmically display the clinical content of the note on a stand... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Posted in CDA | View Comments
...enhancement of those features (maybe even to make them mandatory) as part of the development standard of the v2.x standard. The CDA standard (HL7 v3) contains markup with a functionality akin to FT. It focuses on medical content, not on font-size. CDA is ... Read entry ⇒
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Posted in CCR, CDA | View Comments
HL7′s Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) stores or moves clinical documents between medical systems. Documents are things like discharge summaries, progress notes, history and physical reports, prior lab results, etc. The CDA uses XML for encodin... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, Healthcare Integration | View Comments
The need for interoperability is readily apparent in the healthcare industry. But what does interoperability mean with regards to richness of data? The CDA document is defined with three different levels of interoperability: Level 1: Includes the CDA He... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, Integration Insights, Meaningful Use | View Comments
... of 150 members reached consensus for a single standard for clinical summary documents for Meaningful Use Stage 2: Consolidated CDA. Just like Creedence, the CCR healthcare document standard seems set to become a distant memory. But that’s not to say tha... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Posted in CDA, Healthcare Integration | View Comments
...a in a particular message type to claim support for that message type. This brings us to the Clinical Document Architecture, or CDA. What does it mean for a clinical application to claim, “Our application supports CDA?” If we focus on an app... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Posted in CDA, HL7 Standard | View Comments
... the Structured Documents committee (SDTC) has done a nice job of achieving one of its primary design principles concerning HL7 CDA – minimizing technical barriers to implementation. That mantra has no doubt helped the SDTC create a standard that co... Read entry ⇒
