Use Case Repository
Exchange of Patient Summaries across Atlantic
Scenario context:
More information about this Use Case, including the full description of the requirements and different versions of it, can be found in the Trillium Bridge D2.2 v1.1: Comparing Patient Summaries in the EU and US: gap analysis and pilot use case definition”. May 2014
Actors:
Identity Checker
Authorisation Checker
HCP EHR System
HCPO (Health Care Provider Organization)
National Contact Point
European Contact Point
Semantic Services
Transaction Logger
Transactions:
Patient identification (by Identity Checker )
HCP identification (Identity Checker )
Patient consent checking (Authorisation Checker)
Understandable (structured and translated) Patient Summary
All transactions should be logged
Technical Process Flow:
- Patient visits a Health Professional (HP) in Country B (not country of origin)
- HP has to be authenticated and authorised for this patient by his local system
- Patient has to be authenticated
- Patient consent has to be validated
- PS (Patient Summary) requested at NCP country A (country of origin)
- PS translated by semantic services
- PS sent to NCP country B
- Patient summary has to be retrieved
Associated profiles and standards:
Content profiles:
Possible issues:
- Legal framework shall be defined
- Mapping of the coding system, templates are the main issues: definition of a common PS is planned
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