Patient Index (MPI) so that VA can expect to receive Two or more Assigning Authorities multiple patient identifiers and assigning authorities or do you have a single entity-level MPI that provides a single unique patient ID? VA has one assigning authority. Will your organization persist the VA identifier and Will persist the VA identifier and use it for future queries or will you initiate a patient use it for future queries discovery every time you do a document query? Yes - how long? _________ VA persists the patient’s identifier, after the patient No discovery, and uses it for subsequent queries. Will initiate a patient discovery every time a document query is done Yes No Other:___________________ Yes, our patient discovery includes a Can you include the below noted values in your LivingSubjectID with unique patient LivingSubjectID field? ID and assigning authority VA’s identity management systems require that a No, we would have to modify our correlation be stored in our Master Patient Index (MPI) system to support this request 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 Do you ever use the MatchCriterion tag for any 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. Does you organization initiate a patient discovery at the time of document Clinical Data Content # Readiness Questionnaire Question Partner Answer
Patient Index (MPI) so that VA can expect to receive multiple patient identifiers and assigning authorities or do you have a single entity-level MPI that provides a single unique patient ID? VA has one assigning authority. Two or more Assigning Authorities 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 Other:___________________ 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 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 Does you organization initiate a patient discovery at the time of document Clinical Data Content # Readiness Questionnaire Question Partner Answer
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