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Trillium Bridge Recommendations for Policy Convergence
Privacy and security
EU and US policy makers should:
1. Develop and adopt a legal
framework enabling the safe
and secure global exchange of
patient summaries in the IPS
standard;
2. Develop and enact legal
agreements to enforce and
ensure the implementation of
organizational and security
safeguards needed to support
global exchange of patient
summaries in the IPS standard
between providers;
3. Define policies specifying
the safeguards and measures
needed to protect citizens in
the cross-border exchange
of patient summaries in
the IPS standard including,
but not limited to, identity
management, access controls
and audit trails.
Education
EU and US policy makers, with
support from eHealth/health IT
stakeholders, should:
1. Promote the development
of training for all healthcare
professional disciplines,
specialties and patients to
create, maintain and use
high quality health records,
including the appropriate use
of patient summaries in the
IPS standard to inform clinical
decision-making;
2. Foster initiatives that motivate
and equip patients to maintain
and harness their own health
summary information in the
IPS standard for better health
and the self-management of
health conditions.
Research
EU and US policy makers should
promote:
1. Joint research on metrics for
assessing the quality of patient
summaries in the IPS standard;
2. Allocation of resources to
monitor the implementation
of the IPS standard and its
impact on patient safety and
continuity of care, such as
more efficient emergency
diagnosis, reduced adverse
drug events and fewer
duplicate investigations. ■
For more information:
www.trilliumbridge.eu
Comparing Patient Summaries in the EU
and US: Gap Analysis and Pilot Use Case
Definition:
http://www.trilliumbridge.eu/repository/
Deliverables/FP7-SA610756-D2%202_
v2_20150210.pdf
PHAST terminology prototype CTS-2 service
http://extension.phast.fr/STS_UI
Mayo Clinic Transformer of Patient
summaries:
http://informatics.mayo.edu/trillium-bridge
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