DECOR Information for Project: epSOS (epsos-)

Project Information

This representation of epSOS does not replace the normative specification found at http://www.epsos.eu , but is intended as the basis for future developments based on the epSOS specifications.

epSOS aims to design, build and evaluate a service infrastructure that demonstrates cross-border interoperability between electronic health record systems in Europe.

Cross-border eHealth Services

epSOS attempts to offer seamless healthcare to European citizens. Key goals are to improve the quality and safety of healthcare for citizens when travelling to another European country. Moreover, it concentrates on developing a practical eHealth framework and ICT infrastructure that enables secure access to patient health information among different European healthcare systems. epSOS can make a significant contribution to patient safety by reducing the frequency of medical errors and by providing quick access to documentation. In emergency situations, this documentation provides the medical personnel with life-saving information and reduces the (sometimes needless) repetition of diagnostic procedures. The technical, legal and organizational concepts developed within the framework of the project are subject to an extensive practical testing phase over a period of one year. epSOS will test cross-border eHealth services in the following areas: In a first phase:

• Patient Summary: access to important medical data for patient treatment
• Cross-border use of electronic prescriptions ("ePrescription" - or "eMedication" systems)

Notes for reading this specification:

• The normative master for terminology (including value sets) the epSOS Master Valueset Service (MVS). Any specific examples of terminology, mostly in the template definitions, should be regarded as informative.
• This specification uses flavors for HL7 V3 datatypes where applicable:
  • AD.EPSOS - checks if there is at least one element if not null
  • CD.EPSOS - allows nested translations, and requires @displayName if @code is used
  • CE.EPSOS / CO.EPSOS / CV.EPSOS - see CD.EPSOS
  • II.EPSOS - OID SHALL be <= 64 characters
  • IVL_TS.EPSOS.TZ / TS.EPSOS.TZ - SHALL be precise to the day, SHALL include a time zone if more precise than to the day, and SHOULD be precise to the second.
  • IVL_TS.EPSOS.TZ.OPT / TS.EPSOS.TZ.OPT - SHALL be precise at least to the year, SHOULD be precise to the day, and MAY omit time zone.
  • TEL.EPSOS - Phone/fax SHALL have pattern '^\+?[0-9()\.-]+$' and SHALL have at least 1 dialing digit
• The transcription to ART-DECOR of the normative master specification for epSOS was done by the Dutch National IT Institute for Health Care (Nictiz) end of 2013 / beginning of 2014 as part of an official agreement between the epSOS project and Nictiz.

Additional project information

This project is marked as a repository and has limited external visibility Artifact Prefix Reference URI epsos- http://epsos.art-decor.org/ Default language Template Element Namespace en-US hl7: Disclaimer The content of this publication has been carefully prepared and reviewed. However, epSOS, ESNA, LOMBARDY, ELGA, CLM, GIPDMP, Industry Team, NICTIZ, NHS, ZI, FHGISST, MEDCOM, IZIP, SALAR, NHIC, CATA, DENA, Gematik and FRNA does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or quality of the information provided, or that it is up-to-date. Liability claims against epSOS, ESNA, LOMBARDY, ELGA, CLM, GIPDMP, Industry Team, NICTIZ, NHS, ZI, FHGISST, MEDCOM, IZIP, SALAR, NHIC, CATA, DENA, Gematik and FRNA in respect of material or immaterial damage caused by the use or non-use of the information offered or by inaccurate or incomplete information are in principle ruled out provided that there is no provable culpable intent or gross negligence on the institute’s part. List of Authors Tessa van Stijn Elze de Groot Maarten Ligtvoet Alexander Henket Giorgio Cangioli Dr. Kai U. Heitmann Dr. Stefan Sabutsch

Version Info

Date By Description 2015‑11‑07 15:17:27 Dr. Kai U. Heitmann Official Release: 2014 Intermediate release before changes during the EXPAND update and review project: Formalization of epSOS Patient Summary, ePrescription and eDispensation documents using ART-DECOR 2014‑02‑28 Dr. Kai U. Heitmann (Nictiz) Corrected several templates that contained illegal spaces in OIDs or codes 2013‑12‑03 Alexander Henket (Nictiz) Review version for Giorgio Cangioli 2013‑06‑09 Alexander Henket (Nictiz) Extended data set, vocabulary, templates 2013‑06‑04 Tessa van Stijn (Nictiz) Added scenario and HL7 templates 2013‑05‑30 Maarten Ligtvoet (Nictiz) First concept of the epSOS decor file for demonstration purposes 2013‑05‑30 Elze de Groot (Nictiz) Added data set and vocabulary