Patient Summary Records
Important: Skeleton content for demonstration purposes.
The Patient Summary is an electronic health record extract containing essential healthcare information about a subject of care.
It is also used to communicate care summary information alongside transfers of care, these are often referred to as discharge or outpatient letters and also known as cinical correspondence.
Patient summaries are especially useful in emergency settings when a patient is transferred between care providers and use of Patient Care Records is not appropiate.
Patient Summary Records are complex messages and so can take time to develop.
It is recommended these summaries are built on top of (and so reuse) read only structured API's which are detailed in Patient Care Records and IHE Query for Existing Data for Mobile (QEDm). These API's are easier to build and are supported by several suppliers.
Inappropiate use of patient summaries is known to encourage suppliers to use alternatives such as Document Sharing, this is believed to be due to comlpexity of the messages and current supplier capabilities.
It is recommended these summaries are built on top of (and so reuse) read only structured API's which are detailed in Patient Care Records and IHE Query for Existing Data for Mobile (QEDm). These API's are easier to build and are supported by several suppliers.
Inappropiate use of patient summaries is known to encourage suppliers to use alternatives such as Document Sharing, this is believed to be due to comlpexity of the messages and current supplier capabilities.
Frameworks and Implementation Guides
Guidance
Example Implementations
- Digital Child Health - FHIR
- GP Connect Access Record HTML
- GP Connect Access Record Structured
- Transfer of Care Emergency Care Discharge - FHIR
- Transfer of Care Inpatient Discharge - FHIR
- Transfer of Care Mental Health Discharge - FHIR
- Transfer of Care Outpatient Clinic Letter - FHIR
- Digital Medicine - FHIR