ENV 12538:1997

Medical informatics - Messages for patient referral and discharge ENV 12538:1997

Scope

This European Prestandard specifies general messages for electronic information exchange between computer systems used by healthcare parties requesting specia- list services or receiving reports from specialist service departments. Examples of requests for healthcare speciality services include:-referral of a patient from a GP to a hospital clinial specialist;-referral of a patient for direct entry for an open access procedure;-referral of a patient for direct entry onto an operation waiting list;-referral of a p. for emergency hospital admission (acute referral);-r. of a p. for treatment by a paramedical specialist