- An optional feature of the Clinical Context Manager is the ability to consult with an
Object ID Mapper (such as an enterprise master patient index).
- When this option is employed and an application changes a patient, all applications will
be notified of all the different identifier keys associated with this patient (medical
record number in main hospital, patient number in clinic, etc.)
- In this way applications that run off different registration databases may be able to
sync on the patient.
- As there are several standards efforts underway for MPI systems, CCOW chose to simply
call the OM interface "proprietary" for initial implementations. We hope to work
with these other groups to come up with a standard for this interface.