EU Health Data API
1.0.0-ballot - ballot 150

This page is part of the EU Health Data API (v1.0.0-ballot: STU1 Ballot 1) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Patient Summary (EPS)

This section defines the API requirements for EHR systems that provide EEHRxF data that conforms to the HL7 Europe Patient Summary content profile.

Actors

The European Patient Summary document can be accessed via document exchange

Actor Description CapabilityStatement
Document Consumer Retrieves EPS documents EEHRxF Document Consumer
Document Access Provider Serves EPS documents EEHRxF Document Access Provider

Document Exchange

For document-based access, use the Document Exchange transactions:

The Patient Summary is differentiated via the following DocumentReference fields:

Example Query

GET /DocumentReference?patient=123&type=http://loinc.org|60591-5&status=current

See Example: Retrieve A European Patient Summary for a complete workflow example

Resource Exchange

For resource-based access, use the Resource Access transactions to query individual clinical resources referenced in the Patient Summary.

Note: The IPS Specification also defines the $summary operation to request an IPS document from a FHIR server given a known patient.

GET /Patient/[id]/$Summary