title: Clinical document architecture.
abstract: The Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), a standard developed by the Health Level Seven organisation (HL7), is an ANSI approved document architecture for exchange of clinical information using XML. A CDA document is comprised of a header with associated vocabularies and a body containing the structural clinical information.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Germany. kai.heitmann@medizin.unikoeln.de
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Heitmann
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled