Finance and Insurance Services (FAIS)

stores, categorizes, and facilitates the administration of centralized claims and finance data for patient care.

Formal Specification

FAIS specification

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Plain Language Summary

The IHE FAIS (Frailty Assessment Integration Standard) Implementation Guide (IG) is designed to help healthcare systems collect, share, and use frailty assessment information consistently across different organizations and digital tools. Its purpose is to support better coordination of care for individuals, particularly older adults, who are at risk of frailty.

This IG is not tied to a single country but is intended for use in any healthcare setting where managing frailty is a priority. It is especially relevant in settings like hospitals, primary care practices, and long-term care facilities that need to exchange patient information for coordinated care planning.

The guide outlines how health IT systems should format and communicate data from frailty assessments using standardized methods. It ensures that key data—such as risk scores, assessment tools used, and dates—can be clearly understood and interpreted by different systems.

Key features include consistent data formats, defined exchange workflows, and support for multiple frailty assessment tools. This enables systems to share frailty status alongside other clinical data during patient transitions, such as hospital discharge or specialist referral.

By enabling consistent data sharing, the FAIS IG supports clinicians, care coordinators, and health IT vendors in improving patient outcomes and streamlining care delivery.

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