It seems that a long time offender - HL7 - is showing some activity at the (long dued) effort of moving from the fuzzy and profit centered HL7 2.x to a more up to date Web Age XML-based and Clinically-Centered standardization effort (HL7 3.x).
At the HL7 organization's web site you may find a recent update (2005.03.23) of the: Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Ver. 2.0 [1] proposal.
But, for anyone that has been following the HL7 soap opera from 1987, a thought come to mind:
How much of this is "the true standard" and how much of it is "more of the same", just to cope with the USA market and with the recent US Government HIPPA enforcement?
Source URL:
http://e-healthexpert.org/node/98
Links: [1] http://www.hl7.org/v3ballot/html/infrastructure/cda/cda.htm
