DRAFT AU Patient Summary Implementation Guide for Testing
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DRAFT AU Patient Summary Implementation Guide for Testing, published by HL7 Australia. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0-cibuild built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/hl7au/draft-au-patient-summary/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

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Official URL: http://hl7.org.au.draft/fhir/aups/ImplementationGuide/hl7.fhir.au.ps Version: 0.1.0-cibuild
IG Standards status: Draft Maturity Level: 0 Computable Name: DRAFTAUPatientSummaryImplementationGuide

Copyright/Legal: Used by permission of HL7 International, all rights reserved Creative Commons License. HL7 Australia© 2022+; Licensed Under Creative Commons No Rights Reserved.

This is IG is experimental and is authored for testing purposes. It is not intended to for genuine usage. See the AU Patient Summary Implementation Guide for guidance on the generation of patient summaries in an Australian context.

Introduction

This Implementation Guide is created as part of a tooling test to explore modelling options. It shows different profiling approaches used to develop draft AU PS profiles, ensuring compliance with AU Core and IPS in alignment with the Profile Design Principles for AU Patient Summary. The goal is to identify the most effective way to profile AU PS resources while maintaining conformance to national and international requirements.

We are testing different profiling strategies to assess the impact on:

  • how different derivation approaches align with AU Core and IPS
  • the impact of using compliance declaration and imposed profiles
  • whether the profiles are easy to interpret and apply
  • whether FHIR tooling can process and enforce constraints
  • ease of use for implementers, including whether a single implementation guide can provide all constraints reducing the need to reference AU Base, AU Core, and IPS separately

Relationship between HL7 AU and this implementation guide

  • This implementation guide is published as a proof of concept implementation guide known to HL7 Australia.
  • The content in this proof of concept guide may become an HL7 Australia specification.
  • This implementation guide is not endorsed by HL7 Australia or any of its members just by being made available via HL7 Australia or because it uses content from HL7 Australia specifications.

Dependencies

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.. DRAFT AU Patient Summary Implementation Guide for Testinghl7.fhir.au.ps#0.1.0-cibuildR4
... HL7 Terminology (THO)hl7.terminology.r4#6.5.0R4Automatically added as a dependency - all IGs depend on HL7 Terminology
.... FHIR Extensions Packhl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.2.0R4
... International Patient Summary Implementation Guidehl7.fhir.uv.ips#currentR4
... AU Core Implementation Guidehl7.fhir.au.core#currentR4
.... FHIR Extensions Packhl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#5.3.0-ballot-tc1R4
.... AU Base Implementation Guidehl7.fhir.au.base#currentR4
.... SMART App Launchhl7.fhir.uv.smart-app-launch#2.2.0R4
..... HL7 Terminology (THO)hl7.terminology#5.5.0R4
...... FHIR Extensions Packhl7.fhir.uv.extensions.r4#1.0.0R4
.... International Patient Accesshl7.fhir.uv.ipa#currentR4
..... HL7 Terminology (THO)hl7.terminology.r4#6.2.0R4
..... SMART App Launchhl7.fhir.uv.smart-app-launch#2.0.0R4

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This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Mon, Feb 10, 2025 21:45+1100+11:00)

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This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Sun, Aug 3, 2025 06:28+1000+10:00)

Package hl7.fhir.au.base#current

This implementation guide is provided to support the use of FHIR®© in an Australian context. (built Tue, Aug 12, 2025 03:27+0000+00:00)

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This IG defines the global extensions - the ones defined for everyone. These extensions are always in scope wherever FHIR is being used (built Sun, Mar 26, 2023 08:46+1100+11:00)

Package hl7.fhir.uv.ipa#current

This IG describes how an application acting on behalf of a patient can access information about the patient from an clinical records system using a FHIR based API. The clinical records system may be supporting a clinical care provider (e.g. a hospital, or a general practitioner), or a health data exchange, including a national health record system. (built Wed, Mar 19, 2025 12:34+0000+00:00)

Package hl7.fhir.au.core#current

This implementation guide is provided to support the use of FHIR®© in an Australian context, and defines the minimum set of constraints on the FHIR resources to create the AU Core profiles. This implementation guide forms the foundation to build future AU Realm FHIR implementation guides and its content will continue to grow to meet the needs of AU implementers. (built Mon, Aug 4, 2025 13:28+0000+00:00)

How to read this guide

This guide is divided into several pages which are listed at the top of each page in the menu bar.

  • Home: This page provides the introduction and scope for this guide.
  • FHIR Artefacts: These pages provide detailed descriptions and formal definitions for the FHIR artefacts defined in this guide.
    • Artefacts Summary: This page lists the FHIR artefacts defined in this guide.
    • Profiles and Extensions: This page describes the profiles and extensions that are defined in this guide. This page also defines the approach to testing out profiling, and describes what each profile is testing.
    • Terminology: This is a placeholder for when or if content becomes available.
    • Actor Definitions: The list of actor definitions defined in this guide to explore tooling and techniques for jurisdictional patient summary actors.
  • Examples: This page lists all the examples used in this guide.
  • Support: These pages provide supporting material.
    • Downloads: This page provides links to downloadable artefacts.
    • License and Legal: This page outlines the license and legal requirements for material.