xShare Adoption Site – Catalonia

The TIC Salut Social Foundation (FTSS) is a public agency under the Catalan Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Rights and Inclusion. It fosters innovation in health and social care through the strategic use of ICT. FTSS supports the integration of digital solutions across the Catalan Health and Social Care System (SISCAT), which encompasses more than 2,600 healthcare and social care resources. These include around 68 hospitals, 434 primary care centres, 40 mental health institutions, and 102 residential and long-term care facilities. In this context, resources refer not only to entire centres but also to specific units or services within them, such as community mental health teams, day hospitals or local consulting rooms. Together, these resources ensure universal public access to care for Catalonia’s eight million inhabitants.

The Catalan Public Healthcare System offers the secure Yellow Button tool within the La Meva Salut (LMS) platform, allowing citizens to download their clinical data—including the International Patient Summary (IPS) in XML format—for cross-border healthcare use. The IPS contains key health information like diagnoses, medications, and immunizations. 

During the project, FTSS aims to enhance the tool’s reliability in the IPS content and implement the solution in the private sector to enable seamless data exchange between public and private providers. Additional developments include a mobile application IPS viewer for citizens that can visualize one single IPS or more than one in a combined view (it is in a testing stage).