cda patient characteristics report

What is a CDA document used for?

A CDA can contain any type of clinical content -- typical CDA documents would be a Discharge Summary, Imaging Report, Admission & Physical, Pathology Report and more. The most popular use is for inter-enterprise information exchange, such as is envisioned for a US Health Information Exchange (HIE). Publication Date Version Description

What are the six characteristics of a clinical document?

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.

What is a minimal CDA?

The minimal CDA is a small number of XML-encoded metadata fields (such as provider name, document type, document identifier, and so on) and a body which can be any commonly-used MIME type such as pdf or .doc (Microsoft Word) or even a scanned image file.

What is HL7 standard for CDA Release 2?

HL7 Standard for CDA® Release 2: Imaging Integration; Basic Imaging Reports in CDA and DICOM, Release 1 (View Brief) (Download)(3.30 MB) HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide for CDA Release 2 - Level 3: Emergency Medical Services; Patient Care Report, Release 2 - US Realm (View Brief) (Download)(1.19 MB)

What are the characteristics of a CDA?

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 & Physical, ...

What is a CDA?

The minimal CDA is a small number of XML-encoded metadata fields (such as provider name, document type, document identifier, and so on) and a body which can be any commonly-used MIME type such as pdf or .doc (Microsoft Word) or even a scanned image file. While the body of such a document would not be interpretable for applications like decision ...

When was CDA developed?

CDA® grew out of work that originated outside of HL7 in early 1996 when a group of physicians including Tom Lincoln, John Spinosa, Dan Essin, John Mattison and Bob Dolin began to meet to discuss the potential for structured markup in clinical documents. The earliest draft was called the Kona Architecture and was developed in 1997 after the group had joined HL7.

When was CDA R2.1 published?

CDA R2.1 requested publication in August 2019 and the newly formed HL7 CDA Management Group together with the HL7 Structured Workgroup will work with the implementer community to raise awareness of the changes and improvements to determine a feasible roadmap for adoption.

Where is CDA R2.0 used?

CDA R2.0 is widely adopted throughout the world with heavy adoption in Canada, Austria, Denmark, France, New Zealand, and US. In April of 2019 the US Carequality reported a volume of over $35 Million C-CDA document available through its network.

Who is the largest producer of CDAs?

Duke Clinical Research Institute: CDA as the Single Source Proof of Concept. The Mayo Clinic is the largest single producer of CDA documents, producing thousands of CDAs every week with the anticipation of reaching 50,000 notes per week.

Can metadata be interpretable?

While the body of such a document would not be interpretable for applications like decision support, the minimal, standard metadata set and display characteristics mean that such a document could be filed, searched, categorized and retrieved along with more richly-encoded documents.