CDA XML Implementation

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1 CDA Overview

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2 Introduction to CDA Technical Artifacts

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3 CDA Document Exchange in HL7 Messages

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4 CDA Templating

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5 CDA R-MIM

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6 CDA Hierarchical Description

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7 CDA XML Implementation

Note: The definitive description of HL7 XML Implementation Technology Specification and the process used to go from Hierarchical Description to Schema can be found here.

A package containing all CDA Schemas can be downloaded here.

The CDA Schema can be found here

The Datatypes.xsd file can be found here

The Datatypes-base.xsd file can be found here

The POCD_MT000040UV02.xsd file can be found here

The CDA Narrative Block schema can be found here.

The voc.xsd file can be found here.

The CDA Schema is not itself a normative artifact. Rather, checking an instance against the CDA Schema is a surrogate for validating conformance against the normative XML ITS. An instance which validates against the CDA Schema might still not be a conformant CDA according to this Standard.

The CDA Narrative Block, which is the XML content model of section.text, is manually crafted, as described above (see Section Narrative Block (§ 5.3.5)). Note that while the CDA Schema is not a normative artifact, the CDA Narrative Block schema is.

8 Appendix

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