Scope

Alignment with the International Patient Summary & Other Pan-Canadian Specifications

The Alberta Patient Summary (PS-AB) standard is built upon and aligned to the Pan-Canadian Patient Summary (PS-CA) standard as published by Canada Health Infoway with refinements to fit within Alberta’s well-established EHR ecosystem.

As a provincial EHR, Alberta Netcare is designed to collect and compile a broad range of clinical information from many diverse source systems and clinical authors. The foundational premise is that information is collected once from the most appropriate authoritative sources, then consolidated and disseminated from the central repository. Under that model, Alberta has designed its Patient Summary contents and related FHIR composition to include only sections for those information where the authoring provider is appropriately deemed to be the most authoritative provincial source of that information; and excluding sections for information that is already being contributed to Alberta Netcare through other channels from the appropriate sources (such as lab or DI results from the testing facilities, or medication dispenses from the issuing pharmacies). The PS-AB is, therefore, a deliberate subset of the complete set of PS-CA profiles and contents. Please refer to Figure 1 for a list of included data categories. "Required" and "Optional" in the diagram below refer to the status of these sections within the Pan-Canadian Patient Summary specification, not their status within the Alberta Patient Summary.

Figure 1: Pan-Canadian Patient Summary Composition and Inclusion Status for Alberta