HL7 Virtual Medical Record for Clinical Decision Support (vMR-CDS) XML Specification v1

A Virtual Medical Record (vMR) for Clinical Decision Support (CDS) is a data model for representing the output of CDS engines. The vMR XML specification provides guidance on how to implement the semantics of the vMR logical model in an XML format.

This specification provides a high-level overview of the vMR XML schema’s key components.

Main sections:

· Executive summary

· XML specification for VMR

· Conformance statement

· Overview

· Namespaces, schema dependencies, and design approaches

· Quick guide to the diagrams

· datatypes.xsd

· vmr.xsd

· VMR root type

· cdsInput.xsd

· cdsInputSpecification.xsd

· cdsOutput.xsd

· cdsOutputSpecification.xsd

· Examples