The Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) enables electronic medical records to wireless mobile computing.
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2004-09-13
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The Clinical Document Architecture CDA has proved to be a valuable and powerful standard for a structured exchange of clinical documents between heterogeneous software systems like a Hospital Information System and a Physician Office System In this paper we want to show how the CDA can additionally be used in order to enhance the Hospital Information System s functionality each patient related document contained in or generated from the HIS can be converted to a CDA XML document With the XML XSLT based transformation methods those documents can be device specifically transformed We use this method to display HIS content on mobile devices like Personal Digital Assistants PDAs by extracting the respective data fields from the HIS database converting them to a CDA XML document which is transformed and sent to the mobile devices using a wireless intranet connection Preliminary results and users comments are promising but further evaluation will be necessary Our approach shows a generic model how clinical data can be dis played on different devices independently from the underlying HIS using CDA