What are the differences between CDA/CCR/CCD/CCDA?

Question

All of these abbreviations are confusing. What is the basic breakdown and the differences between each of these?

Answer 1

CDA (Clinical Document Architecture): Released in 1999. Clinical summary documents are based on this architecture. 

CCR (Continuity of Care Record): Released in 2004. Patient summary info.

CCD (Continuity of Care Document): Released in 2007. Interoperability solution resulted as a combination of CDA and CCR.

CCDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Arhitecture): Released in 2011. Latest compromise of CCD document templates.

referenced from http://www.integrationrequired.com

Answer 2

 

If you would like to read more about the difference of a MU1 CCD and the MU2 CCDA changes here is a great reference site. - http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/p/moving-on-from-c32-to-ccda.html