- Health record extract comprising a standardized collection of clinical and contextual information (retrospective, concurrent, prospective) that provides a snapshot in time of a subject of care’s health information and healthcare.
- is an identifiable dataset of essential and understandable health information that includes the most important clinical facts required to ensure safe and secure healthcare. This summarised version of the patient’s medical data gives health professionals the essential information they need to provide care. Although this dataset is intended to aid health professionals in providing unscheduled care, it can also be used to provide planned medical care (e.g. in the case of citizens movements or cross-organisational care paths). It should be kept in mind that not all information is known or is available at the moment of creation of the Patient Summary document.
Acronym / Synonym
PS, health summary record