What is the difference between Summary Care Record (SCR) and the International Patient Summary (IPS)?

General enquiries
1

Hi everyone,

I am keen to understand the differences between the NHS SCR and the IPS. Would anybody be able to provide some insights?

Thank you!

2

Good morning, If you are able to search the #tags on this community site you will find a page dedicated to scr FHIR which will provide an overview of SCR FHIR API. If not I have provided the URL below for you.

[What is Summary Care Record - FHIR API (SCR FHIR API) - Announcements - NHS England Developer Community]

(What is Summary Care Record - FHIR API (SCR FHIR API))

3

This describes some of the use cases for IPS within Europe Use Case Example - Gravitate Health FHIR Implementation Guide (FHIR R4) v0.1.0

The general IPS use case is similar to SCR. I don’t believe IPS sepc was followed by SCR.

4

Thank you both for the very quick reply.

I have been familiarising myself with SCR and the documentation available, therefore I was surprised to find many similarities in use cases for the two constructs.
They seem to rise from the same needs, so I was keen to dig into overlaps and differences.

Thank you again, I will check the links provided.