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Posted February 20, 2007
Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare: News
HL7 Continuity of Care Document Is Approved by Balloting Process and Endorsed by Healthcare IT Standards Panel
CCD interoperability standard enables clinical data to be transportable, resulting in improved quality, enhanced patient safety and increased efficiency
Ann Arbor, MI, and West Conshohocken, PA, February 12, 2007 — Health Level Seven (HL7), with the collaboration of the ASTM International E31 Healthcare Informatics Committee, today announced that the Continuity of Care Document (CCD) has passed HL7 balloting and is endorsed by the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) as the harmonized format for the exchange of clinical information including patient demographics, medications and allergies.
The CCD is a joint effort of HL7 and ASTM to foster interoperability of clinical data to allow physicians to send electronic medical information to other providers without loss of meaning, which will ultimately improve patient care.
"The collaboration between HL7 and ASTM reflects the integration of two complementary specifications [ASTM's E2369-05, Continuity of Care Record (CCR), and HL7's Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)] developed by separate standards development organizations, and demonstrates what can be achieved when patient care is the driving priority," said Robert Dolin, MD, co-editor of the CCD specification and board member of HL7.
"It has been a pleasure to work with Bob Dolin and the HL7 team on the harmonization of ASTM's Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). The Continuity of Care Document (CCD), resulting from the representation and mapping of CCR data within the CDA, will help drive the use of structured XML standards for clinical information exchange and the improvement of patient safety, quality, and efficiency," said Richard Peters, MD, chair, ASTM International Committee E31 on Healthcare Informatics.
The CCD represents a complete implementation of CCR, combining the best of HL7 technologies with the richness of CCR's clinical data representation, and does not disrupt the existing data flows in payer, provider, or pharmacy organizations.
The CCD team has completed mappings of NCPDP medication data and X12 270/271 demographic data to the CCD, and has harmonized the representation across HL7 Financial Management, Patient Care, Lab, Clinical Genomics, and Pharmacy committees.
HL7 held a 30-day balloting period that began on December 6, 2006 and concluded on January 4, 2007, which resulted in passing the CCD standard. This collaborative development process will continue to refine and enhance the CCD over time.
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