HI William, I know for a fact that archetype-based CDAs do/did exist, because Ocean built them for Nehta (not many though, it's not that easy to do it). However, Nehta is notoriously sensitive with IP, and may well have refused them to be made public. I have also seen some other technical solutions, something like proof-of-concept level solutions with CDA containing archetyped data; none of these was operationalised (it was done in Aus and UK).
I have no idea if any of these are alive today, or even relevant. So at a practical level, you may be right ;-) I suspect the only place to get any serious CDA templates at all is MDHT / VHA. I have no idea on the current status there though. By the way, in case you are interested, we will have single-file ADL 2 templates demonstrable in the next ADL Workbench, and I will post some early information / screen shots here imminently. - thomas On 20/01/2015 16:27, William Goossen wrote: > Someone in the OpenEHR world created a nice CDA that uses archetypes. It was > presented at several meetings in the HL7 space, in particular in the patient > care workgroup. > > However, it was a powerpoint. The HL7 people asked for the ppt, but that was > never delivered. > The HL7 people asked the openEHR example of CDA with archetypes, but that > was never delivered. > > So the solution was told to be exist (CDA filled with archetypes), but not > made available. So it in fact does not exist. > > The world of CDA around the world talks a lot about templates. In all IGs > there are specs how such a template should / would look. > > But after 15 years since the conceptualization of HL7 templates, these are > non existent. (I mean not findable even to insiders). >
