Health informatics — International patient summary
This document defines the core data set for a concise international patient summary (IPS), which supports continuity of care for a person and assists with coordination of their care.
Contents
- Documentation
About this standard
- Publisher
- ISO/TC215
- Reference code
- ISO 27269:2025
- Publication date
- 1 January 2025
- Status
- Active
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Deprecated Deprecated standards are available for use and are maintained, but are being phased out, so new functionality will not be added.
Retired standards Retired standards are not being maintained or supported and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Information standards
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
- Contact point
iso@iso.org
Using this standard
- Applies to
- Government Regulators
- Patient and Caregivers
- Healthcare Administrators
- Clinicians
- Vendors
- Digital Health Agencies and NGOs
- Impacts on
- Person or provider digital health systems; Health information structure, content, meaning; Health information access / interoperability; Formal identification of health information
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Data definitions and terminologies
- International Standards
- Patient communication
- Care setting
- Ambulance (Urgent and Emergency Care)
- Care home
- Community health
- Dentistry
- GP / Primary care
- Home
- Hospital
- Maternity
- Mental health
- Military
- Pharmacy
- Prison
- School
- Social care
- Transport / Infrastructure
- Urgent and Emergency Care
- Walk in centre
Review Information
- Scope
- ISO Area/Topic: Electronic Health Record; Data Governance, Patient ISO Interoperability Category: Structural
- Registration status
ISO - standard
- Registration authority
ISO
- Technical Committee
WG1
More information
This document defines the core data set for a concise international patient summary (IPS), which supports continuity of care for a person and assists with coordination of their care. This document provides an abstract definition of a patient summary from which derived models are implementable. This document does not cover the workflow processes of data entry, data collection, data summarization, subsequent data presentation, assimilation, or aggregation. Furthermore, this document does not cover the summarization act itself, i.e. the intelligence, skills and competences, that results in the data summarization workflow. It is not an implementation guide that is concerned with the various technical layers beneath the application layer. Representation by various coding schemes, additional structures and terminologies are not part of this document.
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