Record Locator Services

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Record Locator Services

• Paul Cooper
• IMS

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star? architecture
Legacy System
BS
LEM
Gateway
AMS
BS
PDS
PDS
LEM
PRM
REM
Web Server
Web Server
Internet
Web Server
SS
PDS
LEM
Record Locator Service
AMS
BS
Gateway
Legacy System
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star? core services

• Act Management Services support of the
  professional activities
• Patient Dossier Services management of patient
  medical information
• Enterprise Managers (regional and local levels)
  information on resources
• Patient Reference Manager demographic
  information and references to episodes
• Booking Services scheduling appointments
• Security Services (including public key
  management) certification, encryption
• Yellow Pages regional service information

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The problem

• Healthcare is delivered
• by different people
• in different locations
• at different times
• with different levels of authority
• Patient records are
• fragmented
• unlinked
• different levels of abstraction

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Hierarchies of healthcare data
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star? Patient Reference Manager

• Patient ID
• Public patient demographics
• References
• Access criteria

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PRM functions

• Insert a Patient
• Insert a contact
• Select a patient (including select a patient from
  a patient list)
• Select a Contact
• Request for detailed patient data
• Request for detailed contact data

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What is the RLS architecture?
COAS
Patient ---- ---- ----- -----
COAS
URL1 URL2 URL3 URL4 URL5
PIDS
Interface Tool or Directory Service