1. Implementation Guide
  2. Implement the Healthcare Enterprise XDS.b Web Service
  3. Introducing Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing-b

Introducing Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing-b

Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) enables a number of healthcare delivery organizations belonging to an XDS Affinity Domain (for example, a community of care) to co-operate in the care of a patient by sharing clinical records in the form of documents as they proceed with their patients' care delivery activities. Federated document repositories and a document registry create a longitudinal record of information about a patient within a given XDS Affinity Domain. This profile is based upon Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language (ebXML) Registry standards, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). It describes the configuration of an ebXML Registry in sufficient detail to support Cross Enterprise Document Sharing.

As an XDS.b Document Repository actor, HDR is capable of storage and retrieval of electronic health record documents through web services.

The Web services implemented in HDR for supporting Document Repository actor are:

  • Provide and Register Document Set-b - ITI-41
  • Retrieve Document Set - ITI-43
  • Asynchronous Provide and Register Document Set-b
  • Asynchronous Retrieve Document Set