Description


A Patient accesses/obtains a copy of their own Patient Summary.


Scenario


A patient, or their designated caregiver, would like to access their patient summary information to stay up to date with their medical health information, contained within the Patient Summary, empowering them to play an active role in their own care.

Note that a jurisdictional implementation may choose to present a different version of the Patient Summary to patients than providers. For example, the patient version of the Patient Summary may use more patient friendly language, certain information that might lead to patient harm may be redacted (for example, in the case of patients undergoing behavioral health treatment). 


Triggers, Pre-conditions, Post-Conditions


This section describes example triggers, pre-conditions & post-conditions related to the creation of the Patient Summary. It is not inclusive of all potential workflow scenarios which may be implemented within Canadian jurisdictions.

Triggers

Pre-conditions

Post-conditions


Use Case Participants & Diagram


The participants involved in this use case are:

This use case diagram represents the actors and their role in the use case with a high-level view of the flow of information.


Use Case - Primary Flow


The following provides a textual description corresponding to the use case diagram.

  1. Patient / Subject of Care navigates to their personal health information via a Patient Portal.
  2. Patient / Subject of Care or Substitute Decision Maker requests access to view their Patient Summary / Summaries.
  3. PS-CA Solution (e.g., PHR) applies applicable business/policy rules (e.g. validates the patient's credentials).
  4. PS-CA Solution (e.g., PHR) retrieves the PS-CA (from local storage or from an external PS-CA Registry). If applicable, the PS-CA Solution may apply data transformation, such as formatting the information into a PDF.
  5. Patient / Subject of Care obtains access to their Patient Summary/Summaries and optionally, prints/saves the document in a portable format.


Use Case - Alternate Flow


The following list provides possible alternate flows that may occur within this use case.