Introduction
The Pan-Canadian Patient Summary Interoperability Specification is an implementable, testable specification, based on the IHE International Patient Summary specification. It defines building blocks to create and share condition-independent and specialty-agnostic patient summaries, irrespective of the condition of the patient or the treatment sought or specialty of the provider delivery care. PS-CA building blocks are configurable to address necessary Canadian jurisdictional variances. A patient summary is a health record extract, at a point in time, comprised of a standardized collection of clinical and contextual information (retrospective, concurrent, prospective), including the minimum necessary and sufficient data to inform a patient's treatment at the point of care.
The PS-CA implementable specification contains the information necessary for an implementer to consume and develop the components necessary for creating, consuming and sharing a Patient Summary.
Intended Audience
The intended audience of the Pan Canadian Patient Summary Interoperability Specifications v1 Trial implementation including but not limited to:
- Those interested in integrating healthcare information systems and workflows
- IT departments of healthcare institutions
- Technical staff of vendors participating in the IHE initiative
- Experts involved in standards development
- Software developers
Purpose
This Pan Canadian Patient Summary Interoperability Specification is a technical document that describes the problem that the Patient Summary-CA specification is tailored to solve and provides more information on the detailed set of requirements (including Actors, Transactions and References to specific profiles and standards) and implementation patterns that enable the secure exchange of the Patient Summary-CA specification for Release 1.
The purpose of this document is to address the Pan Canadian Patient Summary Interoperability Specification for the three pan Canadian Use Cases in scope for Release 1 and describe the set of requirements that complements the set of IHE Profiles, HL7 FHIR® Profiles required by this specification with Canadian specific constraints. This interoperability specification is applicable to existing and new information systems and is written in line with international best practices