Patient Interaction with HIE

Full Title

A use case for a Patient Interaction with HIE (Health Information Exchange) service.

Context

• This is one constituent of a Health Care Profile
• The primary source of information was the IHE IT Infrastructure White Paper of the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise. (2020-12-02)
• While the source document addresses legacy content sharing infrastructures, this use case will only address FHIR ver 4.

Actors

• User = health care provider requesting information about a patient that is seeking healthcare.
• Patient = the subject of the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
• Content Creator = a web addressable holder of EHRs.
• Content Consumer = a physician or practice seeking information.
• Share Content is a registry (or registries) describing a Document Sharing infrastructures including MHDS, XDS, XDR, XCA, etc. but see comment above limiting the scope to FHIR ver 4.
  • Medical Record Locator Service
  • Patient Consent Locator Service

References

• See related use case Health IT Record Location Service (Data Aggregation)
• and FHIR to the Patient Use Case