The International Patient Summary is a minimal and non-exhaustive set of basic clinical data of a patient, specialty-agnostic, condition-independent, but readily usable by all clinicians for the unscheduled (cross-border) patient care.
About Patient Summaries
A Patient Summary is a standardized set of basic clinical data that includes the most important health and care related facts required to ensure safe and secure healthcare.
This summarized version of the patient’s clinical data gives health professionals the essential information they need to provide care in the case of an unexpected or unscheduled medical situation (e. g. emergency or accident).
While this data is mainly intended to aid health professionals in providing unscheduled care, it can also be used to provide planned medical care, e. g. in the case of citizen movements or cross-organizational care paths, or even as a crystallization point for health records.
IPS News
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International Patient Summary and Social Determinants of Health
On October 10, the LOINC 2025 Conference in Montreal, Canada hosted a group discussion on the incorporation of social determinants of health data. This included discussion of the Gravity Project and the International Patient Summary (IPS). Growing international demand for Gravity’s social determinants of health (SDOH) standards has highlighted the need for a more inclusive Read more…
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Updated IPS standards are now available
ISO – International Organization for Standardization – and HL7 – Health Level Seven International – have both published updated standards of the International Patient Summary (IPS). Read more…
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