By Keith Boone – This question comes up from time to time. For a given patient, how is there a unique identifier which uniquely identifies the CCD for the patient as it evolves over time. The answer is no, but to understand that, we need to talk a little bit about identifiers in CDA and how they were intended to be used.
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By Jack H. Evans – It’s not a CCDA. Really… it’s not. Sometimes, acronyms feel like a recipe for a headache. There’s nothing quite like initials to make communications hard. Technology is full of them, though, and so is medicine. We’re at the intersection of both industries, on a street corner I call “Acronym Central.”
What Are They and How Are They Useful? CCDs are a type of electronic document that summarize patient information and help providers communicate clinical information…