1 Introduction to Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index

Introducing Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index

Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index provides a flexible framework that allows you to create matching and indexing applications called enterprise-wide master person index applications. It is an application building tool to help you design, configure, and create an OHMPI application that will uniquely identify and cross-reference the healthcare objects stored in your system databases. Business objects can be any type of entity for which you store information, such as patients, doctors, hospitals, medications, and so on.

When you create an OHMPI application, custom database scripts, and a custom Java API are automatically generated based on the information you specify in the wizard and the configuration files. Both the database scripts and API are derived from the object structure you define. For example, if you create an OHMPI application with a Patient object, the database scripts will define a table named SBYN_PATIENT and one named SBYN_PATIENTSBR. The Java API will include a class named PatientObject that includes "get" methods for each field you defined for the Patient object.

Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index provides features and functions that allow you to create and configure an OHMPI application for any type of data. The primary function of Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index is to automate the creation of a highly configurable OHMPI application. A wizard guides you through the initial setup steps, and the Configuration Editor allows you to further customize the configuration of the OHMPI application. The components you need to implement an OHMPI application are automatically generated.

OHMPI provides the following features:

• Rapid Development - Rapid and intuitive development of an OHMPI application using a wizard to create the OHMPI configuration and using XML documents to configure the attributes of the index. Templates are provided for quick development of patient and medical provider object structures.

• Automated Component Generation - Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index automatically creates the configuration files that define the primary attributes of the OHMPI application, including the configuration of the Master Index Data Manager (MIDM). OHMPI also generates scripts that create the appropriate database schemas and an XSD based on the object structure you create and configure.

• Configurable Survivor Calculator - Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index provides predefined strategies for determining which field values to populate in the single best record (SBR). You can define different survivor rules for each field, and you can create a custom survivor strategy to implement in the OHMPI application.

• Flexible Architecture - Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index provides a flexible platform that allows you to create an OHMPI application for any business object. You can customize the object structure so the OHMPI application can match and store any type of data, allowing you to design an application that specifically meets your data processing needs.

• Configurable Matching Algorithm - Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index provides standard support for the OHMPI Match Engine. In addition, you can plug in a custom matching algorithm to the OHMPI application.

• Custom Java API - Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index generates a Java API that is customized to the object structure you define.

• Standard Reports - Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index provides a set of standard reports with each OHMPI application that can be run from a command line or from the MIDM. The reports help you monitor the state of the data stored in the OHMPI application and help you identify configuration changes that might be required.

OHMPI also provides pre-configured templates that allow you to quickly create OHMPI application for a patient solution or a provider index solution. See the following guides for more information:

• Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index Australia Patient Solution User's Guide

• Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index United Kingdom Patient Solution User's Guide

• Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index United States Patient Solution User's Guide

• Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index Provider Index User's Guide