HL7 Standards - Section 2: Clinical and Administrative Domains
Messaging and document standards for clinical specialties and groups are found in this section. These standards are usually implemented once primary standards for the organization are in place.Click a Standard to link to more detail.
Name | Description | Type |
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| Arden Syntax v2.10 (Health Level Seven Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems, Version 2.10)"Reaffirm Health Level Seven Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems, Version 2.10",Arden Syntax V2.10, | The Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems Version 2.10 is the latest version of a formalism for clinical knowledge representation that can be used by clinicians, knowledge engineers, administrators and others to implement clinical decis... |
Normative |
| CDA® R2.1 (HL7 Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2.1)Clinical Document Architecture R2.1,CDA, CDA Release 2.1, CDA R2.1 | The HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) is a document markup standard that specifies the structure and semantics of "clinical documents" for the purpose of exchange between healthcare provi... |
Normative |
| CDA® Release 2"Reaffirmation of HL7 V3 Standard: Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2","Clinical Document Architecture, R2","Clinical Document Architecture, R2 (Reaffirmation)",CDAR2,CDA R2 | The HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) is a document markup standard that specifies the structure and semantics of "clinical documents" for the purpose of exchange between healthcare provi... |
Normative |
| FHIR® (HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)HL7 FHIR® R4B,"HL7 FHIR® R4 Observation, Release 1","HL7 FHIR® R4 Patient, Release 1","HL7 FHIR® R4 Terminology & Conformance, Release 1","HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Specification (FHIR), R1","HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Specification (FHIR)",FHIR,FHIR Terminology,FHIR Patient,FHIR Observation | FHIR is an interoperability standard intended to facilitate the exchange of healthcare information between healthcare providers, patients, caregivers, payers, researchers, and any one else involved in the healthcare ecosystem. It consi... |
Normative, STU |
| Health informatics — Identification of medicinal products (IDMP): Data Elements and Structures "Withdrawal of IDMP - Units of Measure, Release 1","JIC IDMP — Data elements and structures for unique identification and exchange of regulated information on substances, Release 1","JIC IDMP — Data elements and structures for unique identification and exchange of regulated information on pharmaceutical dose forms, units of presentation and routes of administration, Release 1","JIC IDMP — Data elements and structures for unique identification of Units of Measurement, Release 1","JIC IDMP — Data elements and structures for unique identification and exchange of regulated medicinal product information, Release 1",JIC IDMP — Data elements and structures to uniquely identify and exchange pharmaceutical products (PhPIDs),IDMP | The HL7/ANSI standards related to the ISO Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP) have been retired. The “retired” status only applies to the HL7 publication. The ISO IDMP standards are still active and managed by ISO TC 215.<... |
Normative |
| Health Level Seven Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems, Release 3.0Arden Syntax v3.0, | The Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems Version 3.0 is the latest version of a formalism for clinical knowledge representation that can be used by clinicians, knowledge engineers, administrators and others to implement clinical decis... |
STU |
| HL7 Arden Syntax Implementation Guide: Arden Syntax on FHIR, Edition 1"HL7 Arden Syntax IG: Arden on FHIR, E1",Arden Syntax on FHIR, HL7 Arden Syntax Implementation Guide: Arden Syntax on FHIR | The recently approved v3.0 of Arden Syntax includes for the first time a standard data model (FHIR) for representation of data being used in Arden Syntax medical logic modules (MLMs) to provide clinical decision support as well as const... |
STU |
| HL7 CDA ® Release 2 Implementation Guide: Reporting to Public Health Cancer Registries from Ambulatory Healthcare Providers, Release 1, DSTU Release 1.1 – US Realm"HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA© Release 2: Ambulatory Healthcare Provider Reporting to Central Cancer Registries, Release 1",Cancer Registry CDA IG | Population-based cancer surveillance is critical in North America for cancer control activities aimed at reducing the morbidity and mortality of cancer, the second leading cause of death in the United States (U.S.) and the leading cause... |
DSTU |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Attachment Implementation Guide: Exchange of C-CDA Based Documents, Release 2 - US Realm"HL7 Attachments IG CCDA Exchange, R3",Attachment Supplemental Guide,Supplemental Attachments Guide | This implementation guide (Guide) defines the requirements for sending and receiving standards-based electronic attachments. It does so by applying additional constraints onto standards in common use for clinical documentation and by defin... |
Informative, STU |
| HL7 CDA® R2 FHIR® StructureDefinition Format, Edition 1HL7 CDA R2.0 Online,CDA SD,CDA R2.0 Online Navigation | A representation of the CDA R2 standard using FHIR Structure Definitions.
See the specification at http://hl7.org/cda/stds/core/. |
Informative |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Emergency Medical Services; Patient Care Report, Release 1 – US Realm"HL7 IG for CDAR2: Emergency Medical Services Run Report, R2","CDAR2 IG: Emergency Medical Services Run Report, R1",EMS, PCR, Run Report, Patient Care Report | This implementation guide supports the provision of emergency medical service data from provider agencies to hospital emergency departments using the CDA standard. The clinical specifications were developed by the National EMS Infor... |
Normative |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Exchange of C-CDA Based Documents; Periodontal Attachment, Release 1 - US Realm"HL7 Attachments IG: CCDA Exchange; Periodontal Attachment, R1",Periodontal Attachment,AIS0011 | This standard is retired and will no longer be maintained or improved by the HL7 community.
The Periodontal attachment is used to convey information about periodontal related servi... |
STU |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Gender Harmony - Sex and Gender Representation, Edition 1"HL7 Implementation Guide: Sex and Gender Representation, Release 1",Gender Harmony | These are the CDA templates that align with the cross-paradigm implementation guide “Gender Harmony - Sex and gender representation” that provides definitive guidance on how to exchange clinical sex and gende... |
STU |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Templates, Release 1 - US Realm"HL7 IG for CDAR2: Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Templates, R1",MTM CMR Take-away document; MTM CMS document,CDAR2,MTM | This two volume guide supports the documentation and communication needs of the expanding Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services arena and the CMS Medicare Part D reporting and patient information requirements for MTM. ... |
Informative |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Patient-Friendly Language for Consumer User Interfaces, Release 1"HL7 CDA® R2 IG: Patient-Friendly Consent Directives, Release 1",Patient Friendly Language for Security and Privacy, PFL, | The Patient Friendly Language for Consumer User Interfaces IG is sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and is a result of a focused effort to provide a plain language healthcare vocabulary for patient comprehension. This ... |
Informative |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Pharmacy Templates, Edition 1 STU Release 2"HL7 CDA® R2 IG: Pharmacy Templates, R1",Pharmacy Templates; Templates; Pharmacy CDA Templates,Pharmacy Universal Templates | This Implementation Guide provides CDA R2 templates for Medication Order and Medication Statement, Medication Dispense and Medication Administration that can be used by HL7 standards developers and external projects to develop models for p... |
STU |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Public Health Case Report, Release 1 - US Realm"CDA R2 IG: Public Health Case Reporting, R2","HL7 IG for CDA R2: Public Health Case Reporting, Release 1","Public Health Case Reporting" | The purpose of this implementation guide (IG) is to specify a standard for electronic submission of electronic initial public health case reports using HL7 Version 3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Release 2 format. This imple... |
Informative |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Quality Reporting Document Architecture - Category I (QRDA I) - US Realm"HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA R2: Quality Reporting Document Architecture, Release 1",QRDA, Quality Report Document Architecture, Measure Report,QRDA Cat I STU5,QRDA I STU 5.3 | This two-volume implementation guide (IG) describes constraints on the Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA R2) header and body elements for Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) documents. The Institute of Medic... |
STU |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Supplemental QRDA Clinical Quality Data Sharing User Guide, Release 1"CDA R2 IG: QRDA; Supplemental Use Cases, R1",QRDA Data Sharing User Guide | Clinicians who report to quality programs have expressed a need to more successfully exchange (both send and receive) data for quality. This both allows providers to ensure that patient care is adhering to quality standards without repea... |
Informative |
| HL7 CDA® R2 Implementation Guide: Trauma Registry Data Submission, Release 1 - US Realm"HL7 IG for CDA® R2: Trauma Registry Data Submission, R1",NTDB, NTDS, TRDS, Trauma Registry Data Standard, trauma registry | This implementation guide supports the transfer of data elements defined by the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma for Trauma Registries in a CDA document. |
Normative |
| HL7 CDA® Release 2 Implementation Guide: Additional CDA R2 Templates – Clinical Documents for Payers Set 1, Release 1 – US Realm"HL7 IG for CDA® Release 2: Consolidated-CDA Additional Attachment Templates, Release 1", | The purpose of this implementation guide (IG) is to provide guidance on a standardized, implementable, interoperable electronic solution to reduce the time and expense related to the exchange of clinical and administrative infor... |
DSTU |
| HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) R2.0 Specification Online Navigation, Edition 2024HL7 CDA R2.0 Online,CDA Core Specification (CDA), CDA,CDA R2.0 Online Navigation | The HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) is a primary standard of Health Level Seven (HL7) and used millions of times each day for the exchange of patient summaries and other medical documents. ... |
Normative |
| HL7 Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework (cMHAFF), Release 1"HL7 MHaFF: Consumer Mobile Health App Functional Framework, R1",cMHAFF | The Consumer Mobile Health Application Functional Framework is an HL7 Standard for Trial Use (STU). The primary goals of the Consumer Mobile Health Functional Framework ( cMHAFF ) are to provide a standard against which a mobile app&r... |
STU |
| HL7 Cross-Paradigm Domain Analysis Model: Vital Records, Release 5"HL7 DAM: Vital Records, R4","HL7 DAM: Vital Records, Release 3",HL7 DAM: Vital Records R2,"HL7 DAM: Vital Records","V3 DAM: Vital Records, R1",HL7 DAM: Vital Records,VR, VR DAM,VR DAM R3 | The Vital Records Domain Analysis Model (VR DAM) is the authoritative statement of foundational requirements for the design and development of health information exchange standards in Health Level Seven (HL7) related to vital... |
Informative, STU |
| HL7 Cross-paradigm Implementation Guide: Gender Harmony - Sex and Gender Representation, Edition 1"HL7 Implementation Guide: Sex and Gender Representation, Release 1",Gender Harmony | A cross-paradigm implementation guide that provides definitive guidance on how to exchange clinical sex and gender affirming information using HL7 models. This specification is built upon, but has some changes in comparison to, the initi... |
Informative, STU |