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HL7 Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA)

HL7 Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) is a standard for communicating health care quality measurements and reuses templates developed for HL7 CCD.

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HL7 Segments

HL7 segments are a group of fields that contain varying types of data. Each exists independently and can be utilized in multiple messages, in varying sequences.

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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

MIME is short for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. It is a specification for formatting non-ASCII messages so that they can be sent over the Internet.

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CCD-Continuity of Care Document

The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) is used to share summary information about the patient within the broader context of the personal health record.

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HL7 Cardinality

Cardinality defines how many times an element must/may appear in a HL7 message. Represented as minimum and maximum instance counts, e.g., 0-to-n or 1-to-1.

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HL7 Acknowledgement (ACK)

HL7 ACKs (including original mode acknowledgements and enhanced mode acknowledgements) and non-HL7 ACKs (also known as static string acknowledgements).

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HL7 CDA

CDA is an XML-based standard used for clinical document exchange developed by Health Level Seven, and is based on the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM).

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HL7 DFT Message

The HL7 DFT message describes a financial transaction that is sent to a billing system and is used for patient accounting purposes

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