Introduction

An International Patient Summary (IPS) document is an electronic health record extract containing essential healthcare information intended for use in the unscheduled, cross-border care scenario, comprising at least the required elements of the IPS dataset. The IPS dataset is a minimal and non-exhaustive patient summary dataset, specialty-agnostic, condition-independent, but readily usable by clinicians for the cross-border unscheduled care of a patient.

• Introduction
• Purpose
• Project Background (IPS Wiki)
• Scope
• General Principles
• Structuring Choices
• Ballot Status
• Relationships with other projects and guidelines (IPS Wiki)
• Design conventions and principles