HIMSS Word of the Day #234: CDA (Clinical Document Architecture)
The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture, or CDA, is an XML-based standard for the structure and semantics of clinical documents so they can be exchanged and read by both machines and people. This post explains the six characteristics of a clinical document, how CDA relates to C-CDA and FHIR, what research found about real-world document quality, and why nurses and informaticists should care.