The Mohawk College MARC-HI/MEDIC Client Registry Reference Implementation represents the prototype Client Registry (Enterprise Master Patient Index - EMPI) developed under our Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grant to build a test version of the pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record System blueprint as prescribed by Canada Health Infoway.

The reference implementation software supports many standards based interfaces including:

Support for pan-Canadian Messaging (HL7v3) R02.04.01
IHE PIX Version 3
IHE PDQ Version 3
IHE PIX v2.x (HL7v2.3.1 ADT feed, verified IHE CAT NA2015)
IHE PDQ v2.x (HL7v2.5,verified IHE CAT NA2015)
IHE PDQm (verified IHE CAT NA2015)

In addition to these standards based interface, the client registry:

Can act as a Patient Identity Feed (PIXv3) to other actors,
Supports RFC-3881 (ATNA for IHE interfaces) auditing,
Provides support for advanced matching/merging algorithms,
Soundex Matching
Pattern Matching
Name Variant Matching
Provides a custom management interface for merging duplicate patient information,
Provides an easy-to-use configuration/deployment tool,
Provides a highly scalable infrastructure via support for PostgreSQL synchronous streaming replication
Supports query continuation, and persistence,
Supports message logging and long-term execute-once detection,
Provides a highly extensible platform for custom interfaces and modules.

This reference implementation project is intended to assist developers in the development of Client Registry software, customer interfaces (as a test interface), in demonstration XDS infrastructures, or in staging environments.

For more information about this project please contact Duane Bender, Director of Applied Research in Digital Health, Mohawk College [duane.bender at mohawkcollege dot ca]