Overview
A key aspect of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) standard is the notion of a service for Patient Discovery whereby a given community's NHIN gateway is capable of contacting another communities NHIN Gateway for the purpose of querying whether or not that community contains a given individual (or Patient in this case). A wonderful description of this service is located here over at the CONNECT site here Patient Discovery Overview.
Since CONNECT was designed along SOA component based architecture principles, an MPI service was defined with very clear interfaces and this is readily implemented by leveraging the Adapter . The CONNECT open source project by default has a
adapter.properties settings
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