The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) enables physicians to share patient medical information securely while adhering to standardized electronic formats established by HL7. It facilitates the flow of essential demographic, administrative, and clinical data among healthcare providers to ensure comprehensive and seamless patient care. Notably, the CCD is designed to be human-readable and incorporates recent and historical patient data, allowing for easier management and access by both providers and patients.

1. The CCD documents helps the physicians to send the
medical information to other providers without loss.
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2.  The electronically document exchange standard for sharing the patient summary of
information
 Summaries required recent and past information which also includes; EHR, EMR and
web browser software systems.
 The continuity of care document is built by the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture
elements, also contains the data by the Continuity of care record
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3.  The CCD goal is to enable the information flow among providers of
health care.
 The CCD scope and content were determined by the XML based
specifications for the patient data summaries
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4.  Sharing of the electronic medical information with other health care providers is
possible with it
 Snapshot delivery in time, for the particular patient, also make relevant demographic,
administrative and clinical data summary
 Professional society recommendations, standardized data sets and guidelines of
national clinical practice support.
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5. Documents of CCD
HL7 CDA architecture based CCD, the standard of
documents which are directed by the HL7 organization.
HL7 is the leader of health IT standards including v2 and v3.
However, document standards and messaging are included
in HL7 v3.
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6. Complete medical records and CCD
The continuity of care document has never been planned to
be the detailed medical history of patient.
It was planned to add the information which is difficult for the
continuity of care.
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7. Usage of CCD document without special software
The important characteristic of continuity of care document is
that it is human readable, which is the main requirement of
any CDA document.
The patient data in the CCD document is encoded by using
XML, which could be displayed by style sheet on the web
browser
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8.  The CCR has developed in the association of organizations, using by the American
Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
 There is the provider and patient information data setting plus the insurance and
health status of patients information which includes;
 Allergies
 Medications
 Diagnosis
 Current processes
 Vital signs
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9.  It can be said; that the information which possess by health care
provider must be transferred, admitted or referred after the arrival of
patients.
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10.  The continuity of care document has an numerous purposes.
• The upcoming personal health records could be represented by CCR
 Patients can easily be able to keep and store the CCR copies on their personal
computer
 The extensions of CCR for the specialties of medicine, payers, institutions and health
documentations is important which will create the data elements for kind of purposes.
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