The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture.
Many people know of Health Level 7 (HL7) as an organization that creates health care messaging standards. Health Level 7 is also developing standards for the representation of clinical documents (such as discharge summaries and progress notes). These document standards make up the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). The HL7 CDA Framework, release 1.0, became an ANSI-approved HL7 standard in November 2000. This article presents the approach and objectives of [...]
Author(s): Dolin, R H, Alschuler, L, Beebe, C, Biron, P V, Boyer, S L, Essin, D, Kimber, E, Lincoln, T, Mattison, J E
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2001.0080552