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Standards Summer School 2016: Introduction to C-CDA

Introduction to Consolidated CDA®

Faculty

Keith Boone, HL7 Board Member; Standards Geek, GE Medical Systems

Description

The HL7 Consolidated CDA® (C-CDA) is a standard that reconciled and consolidated nine different healthcare exchange documents into a single template library. The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) named the Consolidated Templates Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU) in Meaningful Use Stage 2. This tutorial presents the background and provides practical advice for implementing C-CDA.

Intended Audience

This Tutorial Will Benefit
  • New implementers
  • Standards developers
  • Policy makers

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this tutorial, students will be able to:
  • Navigate the Consolidated CDA standard
  • Explain template CDA and how it streamlines development
  • Locate additional C-CDA requirements to Meaningful Use Stage 2
  • Use online validators to build conformant documents

Prerequisites

  • Introduction to CDA