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The Brazilian International Patient Summary Initiative 

This paper describes the development of the Brazilian version of the International Patient Summary (IPS). A joint technical team is developing the project from Syrian-Lebanese Hospital, São Paulo, and the Coordination of Innovation and Informatics in Health, Secretariat of Information and Digital Health, Brazilian Ministry of Health. The five-phased approach used in the development of Brazil IPS starts with the identification of the Brazilian Ministry of Health national terminologies used to represent concepts for problems, diagnosis and procedures, their upload in a terminology server and mapping to IPS ValueSets, the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources profiles customization and, finally, the complete Brazil IPS Implementation Guide is described.

Link to 2024 Oxford Open Digital Health Article

Brazil IPS Paper