Storage and Retrieval of HL7 CDA documents in native XML form

Healthcare Industry use various standards. One of them is HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) which is an emerging standard for Healtcare document exchange. CDA document is in XML format.

So when it comes to storage, bottom line is to store and XML message. There are different ways to store an XML document like an XML enabled database or Native XML database etc. The trend is shifting towards choosing an Native XML database because its easy to query the whole document and as well as a part of the document.

For this kind of requirement, IBM universal database DB2 offers native support for XML. Have a look at following link and see how easy it is to natively store and query XML. It just become another database storage type and you can use it just like in way we address usual storage types.
http://www.vldb2005.org/program/paper/thu/p1164-nicola.pdf