Patient Summary Overview

The first responder API uses the $summary operation, to return a FHIR document containing the patient summary that is based on the FHIR IPS Standard.

The FHIR document consists of a Bundle (of type = document). The Composition resource returned in the Bundle acts as a document header (like a table of contents) and contains information about the patient summary document, and references to the individual resources making up the summary.

Bundle, Composition, and resource relationships

The diagram below shows the structure of the returned resources.