About the PIX/PDQ Manager

The PIX/PDQ Manager forms a specialized implementation of HL7 messaging that facilitates patient health information exchange, and supports both HL7 v2 and HL7 v3 messaging. HL7 v2 is supported through the HL7 Binding Component using MLLP v1. HL7 v3 is supported through the HTTP Binding Component using SOAP 1.1 and 1.2.

The PIX/PDQ Manager leverages the advanced standardization and matching algorithms of Sun Master Index to cross-reference and uniquely identify the patients in your healthcare organization. Master Index provides a single complete view of the participants in your healthcare system and is able to quickly reconcile which information is associated with which patient, allowing you to quickly create a complete medical history.

The PIX/PDQ Manager processes messages based on the IHE frameworks, which define how to process HL7 messages using existing standards when available. In compliance with these frameworks, the PIX/PDQ Manager generates and maintains an audit repository of all events processed by the manager, and also maintains a trace record of how each message was processed through the system and by which components. Information about the state of the PIX/PDQ Manager components is provided by a common logging, alerting, error handling, and reporting mechanism. The PIX/PDQ Manager provides a monitoring and management tool where you can monitor the audit repository, log messages, and message traces.