Clinical Document Architecture

Clinical Document Architecture
AbbreviationCDA
StatusPublished
Year started1996 (1996)
First publishedNovember 2000 (2000-11)
Latest version2.0
2005
OrganizationHL7 International
CommitteeStructured Documents Group
Base standards
Related standards
DomainElectronic health records
Websitehl7.org/cda

Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) is a technical standard by HL7 International. It uses XML to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of health data for health information exchange. Release 1.0 was published in November 2000 and Release 2.0 in 2005.