Unlock the potentials of the seamless Healthcare Document Sharing

Seamless and standardised Healthcare document sharing across health organizations

Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) founded by the Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) facilitates the standardised exchange of healthcare documents across organisations. Key actors are:

1. Document Source: Produces and publishes the documents
2. Document Repository: Stores the documents in a reliable, secure and persistent manner
3. Document Registry: Stores the metadata of the documents for easy querying and retrieval
4. Document Consumer: Queries the registry and retrieves the documents from the Repository

How to enable seamless exchange and easy access to patients’ documents across different healthcare organisations.

• Cross-Enterprise document sharing (XDS) infrastructure facilitates storing of patients’ documents in a standardised manner that avoids vendor lock-in, ensures patient’s privacy and ownership and accommodates easy access to all interested actors (hospitals, private physicians, pharmacies, primary care etc.)

02. Benefits

• Avoid vendor lock-in – Standardized exchange of healthcare documents
• Ensure patient privacy and ownership via IHE BPPC consent profile and IHE audit trails and node authentication (ATNA)
• Scalable architecture and sharing of documents between healthcare actors (private physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, etc)
• Easy querying and access of healthcare documents.

03. Features

• Standardized way of managing and sharing documents across healthcare organisations
• Document agnostic storage. Support for any type of healthcare documents e.g. simple text, structured clinical information, images
• Support of audit trailing via IHE ATNA and patient consent via the IHE Basic Patient Privacy Consent (BPPC)
• Support of storing metadata for easy querying and retrieval