Full title: Towards the Austrian Patient Summary: Implementation Strategy and Architecture
By: Emmanuel Helm, Andreas Schuler, Gabriel Leonhartsberger, Gerhard Riva, Roman Dietrich, Birgit Scholz, Moritz Buchmann, Stefan Sabutsch
In: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume 335: dHealth 2026
Please access the conference paper online (open access).
In preparation for the European Health Data Space (EHDS), Austria is advancing the development of the Austrian Patient Summary (APS) from a conceptual specification toward an operational, standards-based service within the Austrian public eHealth infrastructure (öGTI). Healthcare professionals have expressed a clear need for a reliable and up-to-date patient summary to support clinical decision-making across care settings. Systematic reviews show that Patient Summary adoption leads to fewer medication errors, reduced hospital readmissions, and better care coordination. While manual curation of Patient Summaries remains a prevalent approach, we opted for automated aggregation due to the need for timely integration of distributed data.
