23 March 2014
[Category: Dates, Times, & Schedules; Original Post: 06-Feb-14]Throughout the XML hierarchy of a CDA document, there are XML elements named effectiveTime that are intended to represent a time period.One instance of the effectiveTime element is intended to take on a timestamp value representing a moment in time (usually a date, in this case). This is directly under the ClinicalDocument root XML element, where effectiveTime captures the time when the CDA document was created (or the date of ...