In the field of

electronic health records An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Records are shared throu ...

(EHR), Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) is a system of standards for cataloging and sharing patient records across health institutions. XDS provides a ''registry'' for querying which patient records are in an EHR ''repository'' and methods for retrieving the documents. The XDS system of registry and repository is termed an ''integration profile'' and was created by

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is a non-profit organization based in the US state of Illinois. It sponsors an initiative by the healthcare industry to improve the way computer systems share information. IHE was established in 1998 b ...

. XDS uses structured EHR standards such as ''

Continuity of Care Record Continuity of Care Record (CCR) is a health record standard specification developed jointly by ASTM International, the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American Academy ...

'' (CCR) and ''Clinical Data Architecture'' (CDA) to facilitate data exchange. The registry stores metadata about each document stored in a repository, including its source or location. There may be multiple repositories of documents indexed, but only one registry per clinical domain. XDS provides a ''Patient Identity Service'' for cross-referencing patients across multiple domains. Conceptually, patient health record data is classified as ''Longitudinal Records'' (EHR-LR) and ''Care Records'' (EHR-CR). Longitudinal records describe the basic patient health data across clinics and over the lifetime of the patient. Care records describe specific clinical data contained within a clinical domain. There have also been XDS standards XDS-I and XDS-b developed for electronic imaging records.

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External links

IHE XDS Wiki page
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