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  • April 13, 2007 at 3:53 pm #49209
    April Dunbar
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      I am looking for suggestions on how to best set this up.  Our single facility hospital has it’s own RIS, PACS and Portal.  We also have an outpatient radiology company, that we own a % of (but is separate from us), that we are trying to integrate with our systems in order for our doctors to see both our hospital’s RIS and PACS in our portal and also the outpatient radiology company’s RIS and PACS images in our portal.  

      They have different account numbers, medical record numbers, etc.  And as of a couple of months ago, they stopped collecting SSN for privacy reasons.  

      Has anyone else done anything similar?  

      Thanks,

      April Dunbar   😕

      aprild@carrollhospitalcenter.org

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      • April 13, 2007 at 8:43 pm #61105
        Lawney Lovell
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          Yes, we have a similar situation but at least we are all using the same RIS and PACS systems.  Our integration of data is based on EMPI # and we use Initiate as our EMPI product to uniquely identify a patient across multiple source systems.  Quovadx is a reseller of the Initiate software and did our implementation.  Hope this helps!

        • May 2, 2007 at 3:16 pm #61106
          April Dunbar
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            Are you setup as 1 or 2 facilities?  So how does the EMPI work?  Is it a separate system that designates the EMPI and keeps track of it?  How does this work with Portal?

            Thanks, April

          • May 2, 2007 at 6:20 pm #61107
            Lawney Lovell
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              We are setup with multiple facilities.  The EMPI is a separate application, named Initiate that keeps track of persons from different source systems and links them to a unique identifer, EMPI #.  The portal then uses that identifer, sent in PID.2 to link all the clincial data from the different systems feeding it.  The clinical systems are setup to accept, store and publish the EMPI # in PID.2.

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