Clinical Document Architecture
| Abbreviation | CDA |
|---|---|
| Status | Published |
| Year started | 1996 |
| First published | November 2000 |
| Latest version | 2.0 2005 |
| Organization | Health Level Seven International |
| Committee | Structured Documents Group |
| Base standards |
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| Related standards |
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| Domain | Electronic health records |
| Website | CDA® Release 2 |
The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is an XML-based markup standard intended to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of clinical documents for exchange. In November 2000, HL7 published Release 1.0. The organization published Release 2.0 with its "2005 Normative Edition".[1]