Clinical Document Architecture

James Franke wrote:

HL7 offers help for $97/month. Text or NeoOffice does give text but it's a bit hard to read:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='STYLE.XSL'?><ClinicalDocument xmlns="urn:hl7-org:v3"><realmCode code="US" /><typeId extension="POCD_HD000040"

Chrome and Word just come up blank.

It is not hard to read if you know XML syntax. There are many tools to extract XML data from the XML file. There should be a HL7 Document Type Definition (DTD) document that explains each tag in the XML file. Web and other applications are written to extract the needed data from the file for creating reports, saving to databases, and modifying the XML data. Most coding languages can be used to read, save, or extract the data. The data in the CDA is likely Name:Value pairs which can be manipulated with JASON or other language designed to work with this type of data.

I think your best bet to find an app to extract and report the data in the file would be from the HL7 or related site.

James Franke wrote:

HL7 offers help for $97/month. Text or NeoOffice does give text but it's a bit hard to read:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='STYLE.XSL'?><ClinicalDocument xmlns="urn:hl7-org:v3"><realmCode code="US" /><typeId extension="POCD_HD000040"

Chrome and Word just come up blank.

You should be able to read your doc with an ordinary browser if you have the file STYLE.XSL in the same folder. To get that file you would presumably have to go to the place where the doc was originally created/stored.

James Franke wrote:

What can I use to read CDA documents?

You might try asking HL7.org. I believe a CDA document is just a XML file containing plain text. So any text editor will open it.

James Franke wrote:

But Firefox worked!

Very interesting. Good news!