Posts Tagged ‘CDA’
Improving Public Health through Public Reporting
In 2007, as the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) was gearing up to collect information on healthcare associated infections (HAIs), they needed a mechanism to pull information captured in local…
Read MoreCDA in the Wild: Conclusion (Installment #8)
Clinical Documents were never meant to hold 10 pounds of coded data. CDA is a 5-pound bag, containing the actual words, either written directly by a clinician or spoken and transcribed, with the minimal coding necessary for the use case.
Read MoreNew Public CDA Stylesheet
Lantana is happy to announce the release of a new public CDA Stylesheet, an open-source renderer for CDA documents. The stylesheet transforms the XML of a CDA document into a webpage that can be viewed in a browser or other XSLT-compatible application.
Read MoreCDA in the Wild: Timing is Everything (Installment #7)
Will time be cruel to CDA? Some think so, we think it is still alive and kicking. The hard part of CDA has always been its HL7 V3 heritage, and it is HL7 V3, not CDA that needs to join the dinosaurs, buried in shale and crushed into carbon.
Read MoreCDA in the Wild: Coded Data Issues (Installment #6)
This week, I have left the bush behind and retreated to the comfort of my office. I am attempting to decode the works of the famous biologist Brice Schneuer,…
Read MoreTrifolia Release 3: New Functionalities
Co-author: Robin Williams, RN Trifolia (https://trifolia.lantanagroup.com/) is a web-based tool for standards development work. Trifolia produces HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) templates and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) profiles.…
Read MoreConversation from the Sidelines: HL7 January 2016 in Orlando, FL
“Conversation from the Sidelines” is a new series at Lantana’s blog. We’ll share experiences from conferences or events that gave us a different perspective on the industry. First…
Read MoreCDA in the Wild: Narrative Issues (Installment #5)
A solitary Wild CDA has left its pride. We can only presume it is searching for a mate by its extravagantly complex header and the swish of its long…
Read MoreCDA in the Wild: Validation and Schematron (Installment #4)
It has been weeks since our last episode. Frankly, the sight of that genetically mutated Wild-CDA/North-American-XHTML hybrid left my team so repulsed that many could not continue. But after…
Read MoreCDA in the Wild: Validation – XML Schema (Installment #3)
During our last episode, we stumbled upon a wild CDA lying dead in the grass. Not wanting to pass up such an opportunity, we decided to dissect the beast…
Read MoreCDA In The Wild: Basic XML Issues (Installment #2)
Move in closer now…do you see that? It’s a wild CDA lying motionless in the grass. Surely it’s waiting for prey to…wait, it’s not moving – something’s wrong… …
Read MoreCDA in the Wild – Introduction
Shh…
…beyond the bushes ahead you will see the Wild CDA in its natural habitat…
Lantana Consulting Group presents the first installment of CDA in the Wild by Rick Geimer, a blog series that identifies top errors found in CDAs (and how to fix them).
FHIR CDA Position Statement and Roadmap
This position statement addresses the relationship between HL7’s Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) product line and the Fast Health Interoperability Resource (FHIR) product line. It was prepared jointly by Lantana Consulting…
Read MoreWhat’s new in Trifolia 2.14
Trifolia version 2.14 is now available. Several updates have been made to the user interface, template editor, template viewer and browsing functions to improve user experience.
Read MoreHL7 Tutorial: Introduction to CDA
Lantana CTO, Rick Geimer, will be the co-speaker for the HL7 Introduction to CDA Tutorial. Tutorial Description The Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) is HL7’s specification for standards-based exchange of clinical…
Read MoreHL7 Working Group Meeting
You can find us at the upcoming HL7 International Working Group Meeting, May 4-9, 2014, in Phoenix, AZ. Working Group Meetings give HL7 International work groups an opportunity to meet face-to-face to…
Read MoreRest Secure
A security update for the long-standing CDA style sheet is available from Lantana Consulting Group here. This update addresses a potential vulnerability exposed by use of the style sheet in…
Read MoreConformance Drift in Consolidated CDA R2; Part Three of Three
The C-CDA Implementation Guide development team settled on five heuristics in resolving ballot comments grouped as “tighten constraints.” Here are my thoughts on the applicability of those heuristics.
Read MoreConformance Drift in Consolidated CDA R2; Part Two of Three
The HL7 Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) Release 2 ballot received an unprecedented 1,000+ comments. A number of those comments include proposals to tighten various constraints within the document. Here are some arguments towards constraint tightening.
Read MoreConformance Drift in Consolidated CDA R2; Part One of Three
The HL7 Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) Release 2 ballot received an unprecedented 1,000+ comments. A number of those comments include proposals to tighten various constraints within the document. Although tightened constraints sometimes are necessary, they may also represent bad spec design in the form of a “conformance drift,” a situation in which increasingly restrictive conformance verbs are applied to truly optional elements thus idealizing one implementation of the spec to the exclusion of others.
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