HL7 CDA R2

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]

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- Description

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- Targets

- Benefits

- Implementation/case studies

- Development background

- Related documents

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- Responsible work group

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