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The Patient Manager tool implements the Patient Demographic Supplier actor of the PAM integration profile as well as the Patient identity Source actor of the PIX integration profile. Both actors are involved in the ITI-30 transaction. This page of the documentation explains how to send demographics information to your system under test which acts either as a PAM Patient Demographics Consumer or either as a PIX Patient Identity Source.

This simulated actor implements both the Merge and Link/Unlink options. Consequently, the application is able to send the following events for the ITI-30 transaction:

• Create new patient (ADT^A28^ADT_A05)
• Update patient information (ADT^A31^ADT_A05)
• Change Patient Identifier List (ADT^A47^ADT_A30)
• Merge two patients (ADT^A40^ADT_A39)
• Link Patient Information (ADT^A24^ADT_A24)
• Unlink Patient Information (ADT^A37^ADT_A37)

Two starting points

We try, at the most as we can, to keep a consistency between the different sections. As a consequence, the way you select the system under test and the patient to send is almost the same for each event, as well as the display of the test result, although some specifities can appear.

PAM Patient Demographics Supplier

To access the page dedicated to the PAM Patient Demographic Supplier actor, go to Patient Administration Management --> Patient Demographic Supplier; then you will be able to select which event you want to send to your system under test.

PIX Patient Identity Source

To access the page dedicated to the PAM Patient Demographic Supplier actor, go to PIX/PIXV3 --> Patient Identity Source --> [ITI-30] Patient Identity Management; then you will be able to select which event you want to send to your system under test.

Select the system under test

If your system under test has been properly created in the "System Configuration" section, that means that you have associated it to the right actor (Patient Demographic Consumer or Patient identity Source), you should be able to see it in the drop-down menu. As soon as you have selected it, check that it is the right configuration that is displayed in the panel beside the sequence diagram.

Select the patient

If you are not logged in, the application offer you two way to choose a patient:

"all patients" will display all the patients created in the context of the PAM/PDS or PIX/PAT_IDENTITY_SRC and still active*. You can apply a filter if you want to restrain the search to a certain period.

"generate patient" will display a panel which will enable you to create a patient using our DDS application. You are expected to select at least a country from the drop-down list before hitting the "Generate patient" button.

Note that in some instance of the tool which are not linked to the Demographics Data Server, it is not possible to generate new patients. If you have the administration rights, consult the administration section to read how to import patients from a CSV file.

If you are logged in, a third option is displayed entitled "my patients". By picking this choice, only the active* patient you have created (you were logged in when you create them) are displayed. You can apply a filter if you need to restrain the search to a certain period.

* A patient is active until he/she is merged with or update to another one.

Patient history

All the actions performed on a patient are logged into the application. Consequently, for each patient we can say who has created it, to which systems it has been sent (enclosing in which message), whose patient is updated from he/she and so one. To retrieve all the patients created by the simulator or received from a system under test, go to the All patients menu and filter on the simulated actor.

Configure the message to be sent to your system

Create a new patient

In this section of the simulator, you can send a message to your system under test to create a patient. This message can contain a patient you have just created using the DDS generation option or an existing patient.

In the first case, several options are offered for the patient generation; you can modify the generated data of the patient, just hit the "Modify patient data" to edit them. If you need specific patient identifiers, go to the "Patient 'sIdentifiers" tab and edit, add or remove identifiers.

In the second case, you only have to select your system configuration and hit the  button on the line of the patient you want. The message is automatically sent and the result of the test is displayed at the bottom of the page.

To send another message, only hit the "select another patient" button.

Update patient information

In this section of the simulator, you can send a message to your system under test to update a patient. You can either create a new patient using the "generate new patient" option or use an existing one by hitting the button on the line of the patient you want. In the second case, you will be able to change the information of the patient before sending the update message. Internally, the application create a new patient with the new values and deactive the selected patient.

Change patient identifier list

This part of the tool enables you to send a message to your system under test to change the value of one of the identifiers of a patient. You can choose to create a new patient and to change his/her identifiers before sending it or to select an existing one. When you choose the second option, a new patient with the new identifier list is created and the "old" one is deactivated. Note that, according to the IHE technical framework, you can change only one identifier at a time. That means that as soon as you validate the new identifier, you cannot change it again or change another one. If you did a mistake, hit the "select another patient" button.

Merge patients

In this part of the simulator you can send a message to your system under test to notify it about the merging of two patients. In order to create this message, you need to select two patients. The one called "incorrect patient" is used to populate the MRG segment (this patient will be deactivated in the simulator); the other one, called "correct patient" is the patient who remains and is used to populate the PID segment of the message.

Patients can be dragged from the table (using the green frame containing the id) and dropped to the appropriate panel or you can choose to generate one or both patient(s) using DDS.

The message can be sent (button is available) only if two patients are selected.

Link/Unlink patients

The "link/unlink patients" part of the simulator is used to send unlink/unlink messages to your system under test. As for the "merge patients" section, you can drag and drop patients and/or generate them using DDS. Once you have selected two patients, choose if you want to link  them or unlink them. The selected option is highlighted in orange and the sequence diagram at the top of the page is updated according this option, as well as the label of the button you have to hit to send the message.