Posts Tagged ‘CDA’
Now Available: Write-Enabled Trifolia Workbench
The write-enabled version of the Trifolia Workbench: HL7 Web Edition is now available for HL7 members.
Read MoreTemplate Versioning for Consolidated CDA (C-CDA)
The HL7 Structured Documents Working Group (SDWG) is discussing approaches to template versioning in Consolidated CDA (C-CDA). I suggest here a strategy that is consistent with current policy on identifiers.
Read MoreReady for Write-Enabled Trifolia Workbench?
Lantana will soon release an enhanced, write-enabled version of the Trifolia Workbench: HL7 Web Edition for HL7 Members. Trifolia Workbench is a web-based standards development tool that supports designers, developers and implementers in capturing and managing HL7 RIM-based templates, such as the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and the Healthcare Quality Measure Format (HQMF/eMeasure).
Read MoreCDA Academy Hat Visits Machu Picchu
CDA Academy Alumnus, David Swiezy, Allscripts, took his CDA Academy hat along on several adventures—to Machu Picchu in Peru and to the Galapagos Islands.
Read MoreJoin the Ballot Pool for C-CDA (by Monday)
As part of the ongoing effort to enable more consistent and accurate clinical data exchange, the HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA® Release 2: Consolidated CDA Templates for Clinical Notes (US Realm) Draft Standard for Trial Use Release 2 continues to build on the library of CDA R2 templates consolidated within the first release.
Read MoreWhere’s Your Hat?
Each student who attends our CDA Academy workshop receives a super soft, unstructured, eco-friendly, bamboo and cotton blend, red hat with white CDA Academy logo. We’ve been handing out the same popular hat for the past eight workshops…
Read MoreAdministrative Simplification: Highlight from CMS eHealth Summit Webinar
We believe C-CDA can provide the requisite information to automate the pre-authorization process, providing immense efficiencies for both providers and payers.
Read MoreOur Perspective on Updating Consolidated CDA
Several proposals have come forward to augment HL7 Consolidated CDA with additional templates. The Structured Documents Work Group has taken the position that new templates supporting long term care will be added in an addendum rather than integrated into a new release of the spec. I think this position needs to be reconsidered both as a general course and for the specific material. Here’s why.
Read MoreHow green is greenCDA?
The answer is, “potentially, pretty darn green.” I was invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Global Healthcare Conference where the topic is the greening of healthcare – reducing the environmental impact of care delivery in the US and around the world…
Read MoreAcademy V: Around the Corner and Out on the West Coast
Hard to believe that we are already going into our fifth edition of the CDA Academy, the premier place to learn, absorb, ponder and explore everything related to the core specification behind Meaningful Use of electronic health records and all types of clinical information exchange.
Read MoreNew Tool for Managing CDA Templates Now Available
Our beta release of a tool for capturing, storing and managing CDA templates is now available through HL7.
Read MoreAcademy IV: Almost here…
The source for comprehensive training in the core specifications required for Meaningful Use, the CDA Academy, comes around again in Academy IV, now enhanced with a track for policy makers and planners.
Read MoreTemplate Database Now Open Source
The Lantana Consulting Group is proud to release our Template Database (TDB) as open source software under the Eclipse Public License.
Read MoreThat Was the Year That Was
We are just wrapping up our fifth annual Lantana retreat here at the sunny, frigid and idyllic C.O.D. Ranch in Oracle, AZ. Looking back, it’s been quite a year for us and for the industry.
Read MoreLaunch of the “HL7/IHE Health Story Consolidation Project under the ONC S&I Framework”
If the official title of the Consolidation Project is looongg, that is in part why it is exciting – there are many hands involved here, and we expect to make light work of a number of important tasks.
Read MoreMaking use of electronic data: The National Healthcare Safety Network eSurveillance Initiative
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), is developing a standard framework to support the electronic submission of health care-associated infections…
Read MoreAPIC Announces New CDC Approach to HAI Reporting using CDA
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…is developing a standards-based solution for transmission of health care-associated infection (HAI) data from existing commercial software systems to the agency’s National Healthcare…
Read MoreCDA Quick Start Guide (v1.5)
A Quick Start Guide for implementers working with simple CDA documents. This guide covers requirements in the CDA header and body and explains fundamental concepts, e.g., the approach to identifiers,…
Read MoreHL7 Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2, JAMIA Paper
Release 2 (CDA R2) became an ANSI-approved HL7 Standard in May 2005 and is the subject of this article, where the focus is primarily on how the standard has evolved…
Read MoreThe Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Release 1.0, JAMIA Paper
This was our debut to the informatics community in 2000.
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