During the HL7 FHIR DevDays 2023 Rob Hausam and James Agnew gave a very informative presentation on the current state of the IPS and the API to get access to an IPS. The presentation starts with an introduction, so you’ll be guided into the main features of the IPS.
View the video registration of the session on YouTube
Apologies for the bad sound with terrible echoes during first few minutes: it gets much better at 1:45
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]]>John Moehrke provides a short introduction to the new Sharing of IPS (sIPS) Profile, which has just been added to the IPS set of standards and specifications.
Watch the video on YouTube
]]>We have updated the overview of the IPS standards and specifications and have added a more detailed description of the IHE sIPS Profile.
Note for people that are using our illustrations in their presentations: we have updated the relationships between the European eHN Guideline and the published CEN, ISO, HL7, IHE and SNOMED standards and specifications.
]]>The IHE Sharing of IPS (sIPS) Profile provides for methods of exchanging the International Patient Summary (IPS), utilizing (without modifying) the specifications documented in the HL7 FHIR IPS Implementation Guide, and leveraging the provisions outlined in the IHE Whitepaper IHE Document Sharing Health Information Exchange. The IHE sIPS Profile supports International Patient Summary (IPS) content (as defined in the ISO 27269 data model specification) binding with IHE’s document sharing infrastructure, including cross-community, HIE, direct exchange models, and more. It has been designed specifically to remove barriers to adoption, by leveraging architectures that are currently implemented, well-established, and robust. The sIPS Profile provides implementation guidance to vendors and implementers, and joins a growing suite of IPS standards artefacts contributed by a variety of Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), and coordinated by the Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardization (JIC).
Due to the minimal global uptake of HL7’s CDA encoding of the IPS at the time of publication, the focus of the sIPS Profile is currently based on the specification provided in the HL7 FHIR IPS IG. Any document conforming to the base IPS specification can be exchanged using sIPS.
The IHE sIPS Profile provides guidance to implementers on how a number of important functions may be leveraged to support key IPS use cases. These include:
The IPS, as a current patient summary, is an excellent document for the “On-Demand” capability of the Document Sharing infrastructure. IHE Document Sharing also has “Stable” and “Delayed Assembly” document entry types that are further explained in the HIE Whitepaper Dynamic Documents.
Go to the full document or watch the introductory video first.
]]>Robert Stegwee provided an overview of the European Patient Summary, as implemented in MyHealth@EU, and the relationship with the International Patient Summary to the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP). He also looks into the difference with the proposed GDHP patient mediated scenario, which is also being considered by others and has been realised through the combination of the IPS with SMART Health Links.
Download the PDF presentation
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]]>More information and a link to John’s video under IPS Videos.
More information an a link to Dave’s blog under IPS Publications.
]]>Dave deBronkart, better known as e-Patient Dave, has taken the legacy of Casey Quinlan and got his own QR-code for his IPS. In his blog Dave reports his enthusiasm of actually realising this dream of an empowered patient, albeit as a “proof of concept”. It is an inspiring story to let patients help produce and use the IPS for the purposes it was designed for: to provide clinicians with the health data needed to provide safe and effective care.
This patient-mediated scenario is just one of the ways that the IPS can be made available. And it is important to note that Dave chose to not have additional security layers to protect his IPS, which would normally be part of the solution implemented. You can just scan the QR-code and get direct access to his IPS in SMART Health Link format, which enables you to both view the IPS and access it as a FHIR document.
Other types of infrastructures are available for the IPS, which will, for instance, make sure that only recognised healthcare personnel will be able to access the IPS or that the IPS is sourced from an accredited organisation.
Read Dave’s blog on his website.
A short video “5 minutes of Interop : International Patient Summary” introducing the IPS and the standards, profiles and terminologies involved.
Presented by John D’Amore, active member of the IPS team.
Please view the video on YouTube
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