

Within an XDS Affinity Domain, certain common policies and business rules must be defined. Insurance Provider Supported Communities.Government sponsored facilities (e.g., VA or Military).A regional federation made up of several local hospitals and healthcare providers.Cardiology Specialists and an Acute Cardiology Center.Community of Care supported by a regional health information organization in order to serve all patients in a given region.An XDS Affinity Domain is a group of healthcare enterprises that have agreed to work together using a common set of policies and share a common infrastructure.Įxamples of XDS Affinity Domains include: The XDS.b Integration Profile assumes that these enterprises belong to one or more XDS Affinity Domains. In the rest of the ITI Technical Framework the term XDS refers generically to any flavor of XDS, currently only XDS.b. The Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b) IHE Integration Profile facilitates the registration, distribution and access across health enterprises of patient electronic health records.Ĭross-Enterprise Document Sharing is focused on providing a standards-based specification for managing the sharing of documents between any healthcare enterprise, ranging from a private physician office to a clinic to an acute care in-patient facility.

10 Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS.b)
