Provider Directories – A Strategic Priority
Why a strategic Priority
Texas
- Covering 30M People
- Network of Networks model
- Disaster response is a driver due to coastal state
- Privacy and Consent is an important issue
- Leverage IHE and HL7 Standards including discovering electronic end points – Creating Single Virtual State Directory
- Avoiding replication. instead point to where data is closest to the people in the directory.
Why a strategic priority for eHealth Exchange
- Need automated discovery
- Must support Federation
- Computable consent works with Provider Directories
- Current directories based on UDDI needs modernization to align with industry direction
Strategic for CareQuality
- Members are in two-tier hierarchy
- Trust agreement is coupled to directory
- Automation is key
- more levels anticipated in future
- supporting multiple trust domains
Strategic for HIETexas
- Directories must be interoperable across the state
- Selected through transparent public process
- Provider Directory was a top choice alongside Event Notifications – Part of Medicaid 90/10 match project
Provider Directory Use Cases
- Identify human or organizational provider based on attributes – Based on relationships to an organization
- Keeping Provider Lists current (Federation, Subscriptions, Data Exchange, real-time v batch, administration component) – Encapsulated or linked object retrieval eg. Certificate retrieval – Generic electronic services discover (IHE SOAP, FHIR, DIrect) – Target automated Patient Consent expression
- New: Consumer Directory
Presenter: Eric Heflin
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