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Improving Patient Outcomes with Informatics

In January of 2018, I begun studying Healthcare Informatics for the first time.  It became very clear to me, early in the process, that the study of computer information, technology, and electronic health record keeping, would require me to learn a whole new language.  One of the first terms I encountered that needed a deeper dive was HL7.  I have found this web site quite helpful.

HL7 Site
http://www.hl7.org/

As we look to integrate a 3rd party platform into our EHR, the information related to CDA Release 2 was helpful as we organized our strategic plan.

CDA® Release 2

DESCRIPTION

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 & 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).

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