VA initiates a patient discovery message to all partners on the eHealth Exchange at the time of consenting/authorizing or when needing to discover where the patient has been treated. 9. Will your organization persist the VA Will persist the VA identifier and use it for identifier and use it for future queries or will future queries you initiate a patient discovery every time you Yes - how long? _________ do a document query? No VA persists the patient’s identifier, after the Will initiate a patient discovery every time a patient discovery, and uses it for subsequent document query is done queries. Yes No ______________________________ 10. Can you include the below noted values in your Yes, our patient discovery includes a LivingSubjectID field? LivingSubjectID with unique patient ID and assigning authority VA’s identity management systems require that a No, we would have to modify our system to correlation be stored in our Master Patient Index support this request (MPI) to be able to release data to a partner. If your system does not provide a patient unique ID and assigning authority in your LivingSubjectID field when sending a patient discovery message to VA, your subsequent document query and document retrieve requests would fail our policy check. 11. Do you ever use the MatchCriterion tag for any Yes request or response? No The use of the MatchCriterion tag causes patient discoveries to fail. Therefore, please do not use any MatchCriterion tags for any request or response.
VA initiates a patient discovery message to all partners on the eHealth Exchange at the time of consenting/authorizing or when needing to discover where the patient has been treated. 9. Will your organization persist the VA identifier and use it for future queries or will you initiate a patient discovery every time you do a document query? VA persists the patient’s identifier, after the patient discovery, and uses it for subsequent queries. Will persist the VA identifier and use it for future queries Yes - how long? _________ No Will initiate a patient discovery every time a document query is done Yes No ______________________________ 10. Can you include the below noted values in your LivingSubjectID field? VA’s identity management systems require that a correlation be stored in our Master Patient Index (MPI) to be able to release data to a partner. If your system does not provide a patient unique ID and assigning authority in your LivingSubjectID field when sending a patient discovery message to VA, your subsequent document query and document retrieve requests would fail our policy check. Yes, our patient discovery includes a LivingSubjectID with unique patient ID and assigning authority No, we would have to modify our system to support this request 11. Do you ever use the MatchCriterion tag for any request or response? The use of the MatchCriterion tag causes patient discoveries to fail. Therefore, please do not use any MatchCriterion tags for any request or response. Yes No
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