Implementation of an IHE XDS-MS Based Electronic Emergency Referral Document System

The emergency department (ED) represents an important transition of care for patients, where understanding the patient health condition is critical to forming an appropriate plan of care. Because many emergency referral visits are unplanned and urgent, this information may not be conveyed in advance to ED physicians. Loss of this data can lead to costly over-testing in the ED referral, or worse, an inappropriate disposition for the patient. In this study, we use the XDS-MS (Cross-Enterprise Sharing of Medical Summaries) profile to implement the prototype of Emergency department system for referral document to solve the problem of patient’s health information losing and sharing crossing the different hospital emergency departments.