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Patient Summary sharing with “pull” of the information

Related Use Case

Patient summary sharing on a National/regional scale

Scenario context

In this Realisation Scenario, the Patient Summary (along with other necessary documents and/or images) is retrieved by information system B in healthcare organisation B from the information system in healthcare organisation A. This is sometimes being referred to as “pull”. In the case of an emergency intake of a patient, available information is drawn from another system. At the time of arrival of the patient in the A&E department, no information about the patient is available.

Actors/Roles

  • Document Consumer
  • Document Registry
  • Document Repository

Transactions

  • Record patient consent
  • Requesting Patient Summary
  • Retrieval of Patient Summary

Health Information Domain and EHDS Priority Data Category

  • Patient Consent
  • Patient Summary

Data flow

  • Store Patient Consent
  • Request information from another healthcare organisation, including the patient consent
  • Retrieve Patient Summary

Technical process flow

  1. Healthcare information system A (HIS A) stores the patient consent
  2. After selection of the relevant documents by the HCP, HIS A sends the relevant documents to HIS B through a secure electronic connection
  3. HIS B receives the documents, and stores them. It shows a notification for the HCP in healthcare organisation B.

Associated profiles, standards, and HL7 FHIR Implementation guides

  • Policy: —
  • Care process: —
  • Information: XDS-MS (or other Patient Summary)
  • IT Infrastructure: XDS, CT, ATNA, PIX/PDQ
  • Cross-domain: XUA, XCPD
  • Access control: BPPC

Possible issues

Governance, versioning of the Patient Summary.

Implementation examples