International Patient Summary (IPS) as a mechanism for sharing/exporting data (allowing Practitioners to consume) - SMART Health Links

[AnalogJ]

We should investigate different mechanisms for exporting/sharing patient records

• IPS seems to be a good baseline (that will be supported by a number of nations and institutions)
• IPS is based on US Core CDI (I think)
• https://www.ipsviewer.com/
• DevDays 2023 - International Patient Summary Current State and API
• https://shutdownhook.com/2023/06/22/nerdsplaining-smart-health-links/

[AnalogJ]

SPEC

• https://build.fhir.org/ig/HL7/fhir-ips/ipsStructure.html
• ISO 27269:2021 - iso_27269_2021.pdf

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https://hapifhir.io/hapi-fhir/docs/server_jpa/ips.html

• Interface - https://github.com/hapifhir/hapi-fhir/blob/master/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-ips/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/ips/api/IIpsGenerationStrategy.java
• Implementation - https://github.com/hapifhir/hapi-fhir/blob/master/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-ips/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/ips/strategy/DefaultIpsGenerationStrategy.java

Narrative Generation - https://hapifhir.io/hapi-fhir/docs/model/narrative_generation.html

• https://github.com/hapifhir/hapi-fhir/tree/master/hapi-fhir-base/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/fhir/narrative

[AnalogJ]

Links from my chat with John D'Amore:

• https://sequoiaproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Improve_C-CDA_Joint_Content_WG_IHE_v2.0_Draft-20200915_.pdf
• https://github.com/jddamore/fhir-ips-server/blob/main/docs/Summary_Creation_Steps.md
• https://github.com/jddamore/ccda-samples
• https://github.com/jddamore/ccda-samples/tree/master/z-infographic
• https://www.thecommonsproject.org/newsroom/introducing-patient-summaries
• https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/apple-provides-powerful-insights-into-new-areas-of-health/

[AnalogJ]

PDF Generation

• https://github.com/johnfercher/maroto
• https://github.com/oliverpool/unipdf - AGPL fork of unipdf (needs to be packaged as CLI)
• https://github.com/go-pdf/fpdf
• https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu
• https://github.com/signintech/gopdf

Unavailable

• https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/ - PDF supporting HTML styles - Python
• https://github.com/unidoc/unipdf - PAID
• https://wkhtmltopdf.org/ - unmaintained
• https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas - SVG to PDF

[AnalogJ]

https://github.com/hapifhir/hapi-fhir/tree/master/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-ips/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/ips/narrative