A silent animation, 2 minutes and 22 seconds long, in seven steps. The on-screen text is in Spanish.
- The problem. A laboratory, a hospital and a clinic care for the same person, John Doe, but their results travel printed on paper, arrive by mail "if they arrive at all", or require a phone call to the laboratory. Your results exist, but they don't follow you.
- A community. Today, five organizations need ten integrations with each other, and every change breaks something. With a health information exchange (HIX), each organization builds a single integration with the community, based on open profiles and standards.
- One person, many identities. Hospital A, laboratory B and clinic C know the same person by different identifiers. A master patient index (MPI), fed by the official identity source, links them into a single record without creating a new one, and the community keeps that link.
- The laboratory publishes. The laboratory validates a urine culture and sends the community only metadata: what it is, whose it is, where it is and its confidentiality level. The content stays at the laboratory.
- The hospital finds. The physician asks the community what there is for John Doe, stating the purpose: treatment. The index returns the laboratory's urine culture and a blood count from hospital B; a highly restricted record from the clinic is shown only in emergencies. The community retrieves the document from the laboratory with a single-use authorization. The hospital asks the community, not each custodian, and only sees what it is entitled to.
- The person sees their results. John Doe signs in with a verified identity and sees their own results, and only theirs.
- Secure by design. Laboratory, community and hospital connect over X-Road. Every access is authorized, travels protected by X-Road or HTTPS, is verified and is logged.
The person's data is fictitious.