Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing

The Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing IHE Integration Profile facilitates the registration, distribution and access across health enterprises of patient electronic health records.

Summary

Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) is focused on providing a standards-based specification for managing the sharing of documents between any healthcare enterprise, ranging from a private physician office to a clinic to an acute care in-patient facility. This is managed through federated document repositories and a document registry to create a longitudinal record of information about a patient within a given clinical affinity domain. These are distinct entities with separate responsibilities:

• A Document Repository is responsible for storing documents in a transparent, secure, reliable and persistent manner and responding to document retrieval requests.
• A Document Registry is responsible for storing information about those documents so that the documents of interest for the care of a patient may be easily found, selected and retrieved irrespective of the repository where they are actually stored.
• Documents are provided by one or more Document Sources
• They are then accessed by one or more Document Consumers

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Details

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Systems Affected

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References

From Regional Healthcare Information Organizations to a National Healthcare Information Infrastructure

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Medical Data GRIDs as approach towards secure cross enterprise document sharing (based on IHE XDS).

IHE Update: Bigger, Better Events, New Standards & Guides

Architecture for a Distributed National Electronic Health Record System in Austria

See Also

Related Profiles: Patient Identity Cross Referencing, Patient Demographics Query, Audit Trail and Node Authentication and Consistent Time

Profile Status: Final Text

The IT Infrastructure Technical Framework is the official master document for this Profile.

The XDS FAQ answers typical questions about what the Profile does.

XDS Purchasing describes considerations when purchasing equipment to deploy this Profile.

XDS Implementation provides additional information about implementing this Profile in software.

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