I am trying to understand how the continuity of care (CCD) document is generated. Are those generated by actual humans looking at paperwork (maybe filed by the physician), or will hospitals have a software systems which will generate a CCD? Just how is the CCD generated and shared between hospital systems when a patient is being reffered?


Given that HIEs are pushing for the use of CCD for PHI data exchange among facilities, how is the actual merging of the data into an existing EHR being considered? If the data is not able to be adequately integrated, and in the absence of standards, how can one be sure that the imported data...

