HITSP specs are available for free and are much more refined than the generic 
CDA specification - I'd say they require much less work to implement (and they 
are completely HL7 CDA compliant).

This document is interesting: 
http://publicaa.ansi.org/sites/apdl/hitspadmin/Matrices/HITSP_09_N_451.pdf

And the spec is here:

http://www.hitsp.org/ConstructSet_Details.aspx?&PrefixAlpha=4&PrefixNumeric=32

Glen


On 2011-09-02, at 6:08 AM, Andrew Kanter wrote:

> Alvin,
> Funny, I just asked this question this morning myself... I think that it 
> might not be too difficult, but don't know of anyone yet who has done it. 
> Stephen Lorenz built an XML export module for I2B2 which might be modified. I 
> also don't think that you need to license to operate a CDA bridge. However, 
> you probably need to pay to get the full specification. It would depend on 
> which type of transactions you really wanted to cover as I imagine some are 
> publicly available.
>  
> Andy
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> Subject: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Can OpenMRS output HL7 CDA already by default?
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Two questions: 
> 
> Is there functionality within base install of OpenMRS to produce CDA messages 
> given a template?
> 
> And if OpenMRS is able to do that (which I know it can if the devs wanted 
> to), is it compelled to get a license from HL7?
> 
> Rationale behind question: we might go this way in Philippines but are wary 
> of the licensing burden...
> 
> alvin
> 
> 
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