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| Actor Name | Description / Definition |
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PS-CA Producer | A health records system (e.g., EMR, HIS, CIS, PHR, or EHR) that creates/produces a Patient Summary-CA in response to a request from an authorized health care provider, the subject of care or another authorized health records system. |
PS-CA Consumer | A health records system (e.g., EMR, HIS, CIS, PHR, or EHR) that enables access to or receipt of a Patient Summary-CA by an authorized health care provider or the subject of care/patient. |
Document Repository (Local or Central) | A document repository is a shared storage space for clinical documents (Patient Summaries) that can be hosted locally (e.g., at the document producer) or at the IHE Central Infrastructure and can be accessed by authorized users |
HIE Central Infrastructure | A Health Information Exchange (HIE) Central Infrastructure collects information from participating organizations and stores the information in a centralized place to provide access. Typically, these are under jurisdictional control. |
Patient Portal | A patient portal is a web-based access point that enables secure patient access to personal health information and other self-serve health IT services *Note: Patient Portal is also comparable to the PS-CA Consumer role; however, for Use Case 3, the patient summary is viewed by the subject of care itself. |
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