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1.1 ISO 27932: HL7 Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2.0 The scope of the CDA is the standardization of clinical documents for exchange. The data format of clinical documents outside of the exchange context (e.g., the data format used to store clinical documents) is not addressed in this specification. CDA documents can be transmitted in HL7 messages designed to transfer clinical documents. While the detailed specification for such messages is outside of the scope of the CDA, this specification does impose requirements upon the packaging of CDA documents in HL7 messages. The CDA does not specify the creation or management of documents, only their exchange markup. While it may be possible to directly use the CDA Schema in a document authoring environment, such use is not the primary purpose of the CDA specification. Document management is critically interdependent with the CDA specifications, but the specification of document management messages is outside the scope of the CDA.