HiRES and its Application of HL7 Clinical Document Architecture in a Training Context

This document presents the HiRES, Health informatics for Research, Education and Service, research project undertaken at the St. Mary’s Hospital Research Center, McGill University and its integration of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture standard for clinical teaching in the virtual environment. The achievement of a meaningful virtual clinical world for teaching, continuing clinical education and the ‘mentor’ generation patient record requires that clinical information and knowledge be computable and consensus driven. The CDA provides a structure that can be interpreted by an enriched archetype thereby providing a simplified consensus medium that is readily accessible to the clinical community. Curatorship of the knowledge set by cross jurisdictional accreditation entities provides a de facto national standard accessible to teachers and vendors.