Category Standard Organisation Health Level Seven (HL7) Type Standard Version 2 Access Open Status Superseded Created Feb-15 The HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) is a document markup standard that specifies the structure and semantics of 'clinical documents' for the purpose of exchange between healthcare providers and patients. It defines a clinical document as having the following six characteristics: 1) Persistence, 2) Stewardship, 3) Potential for authentication, 4) Context, 5) Wholeness and 6) Human readability. A CDA can contain any type of clinical content - typical CDA documents would be a discharge summary, imaging report, admission and physical record, and pathology report. The most popular use is for inter-enterprise information exchange. Release 2 is the previous version to Release 2.1.[LF21] Main sections:[LF22] [TT23] - Description- Alternative names- Targets- Benefits- Implementation/case studies- Development background- Related documents- Additional details- Topic- Ballot type- Status date- Responsible work group- Family- Current state- Realm Access HL7 CDA R2 By accessing this content, you are leaving this website. The Agency takes no responsibility for the accuracy of content on the destination page.