International Patient Summary Implementation Guide
2.0.0 -

International Patient Summary Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Patient Care. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-ips/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

## Actors

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### List of IPS Actors

The IPS actors defined for this implementation guide are listed below:

Consumer (IPS)

An IPS Consumer actor is a system that receives an IPS document and uses the content of this document.

Creator (IPS)

An IPS Creator actor is a system which produces/assembles/creates an IPS document.

Server (IPS)

An IPS Server is a FHIR server acting as an IPS Creator by providing conformant IPS documents in response to FHIR API requests.