Use Case Repository
Sharing a Patient Summary with a healthcare provider
Scenario context:
One possible way in which the patient may want to distribute the information is to give it to a new health professional on the occasion of a new medical encounter, whether this intervention is scheduled or unscheduled. This step is relevant only if the health professional does not, for some reason, have access to the patient summary9 .
NOTE from epSOS: “It is important to note that the patient access service is a national prerogative. As such, neither functionality nor requirements thereto are regulated by epSOS”. (quote from D4.E.1)
Actors:
PHR System
NCP-A (National Contact Point A, own country)
NCP-B (National Contact Point B, other country)
Translation Service
Transactions:
Patient identification
Patient Summary retrieval
Technical Process Flow:
- Patient requests information about Patient Summaries via NCP-B using (for example) his/her PHR System
- Patient is authenticated by the NCP-B
- Patient requests Patient Summary from country A
- NCP presents selected Patient Summary
- Translation of selected Patient Summary in country A is made available by a Translation Service
Associated profiles and standards:
Content profiles:
Possible issues:
- Document management: when the HCP makes a copy of the Patient Summary, is the provenance of that document safeguarded?
- How to determine that the patient is who he says he is (authentication)
- Does patient’s authentication provides same level of trust and security of HCP’s authentication
For more issues/disadvantages of patient access please see D3.2.2. of epSOS
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