Patient Information Reconciliation

The Patient Information Reconciliation (PIR) Profile coordinates reconciliation of the patient record when images are acquired for unidentified (e.g. trauma), or misidentified patients.

Summary

PIR augments Scheduled Workflow by providing the means to match images acquired for an unidentified patient with the patient's registration and order history. In the example of the trauma case, this allows subsequent reconciliation of the patient record with images acquired (either without a prior registration or under a generic registration) before the patient's identity could be determined.

Patient Information Reconciliation

Benefits

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Enabling after-the-fact matching greatly simplifies exception-handling situations.

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Details

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Systems Affected

• Enterprise-wide information systems that manage patient registration and services ordering (ADT/registration system, HIS)
• Radiology departmental information systems that manage department scheduling (RIS) and image management/archiving (PACS)
• Acquisition modalities

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Actors & Transactions:

Specification

Profile Status: Final Text

Documents:

IHE Radiology Technical Framework:

• Vol. 1 - Section 4 documents the profile, Appendix C discusses relavent information exchange between the Order Filler and the Image Manager, and Appendix G discusses issues of reconciliation when using XDS-I
• Vol. 2 - Sections 4.5 to 4.7, 4.11 to 4.13, 4.16, 4.26, 4.27, and Vol. 3 - Section 4.46 document specific transactions
• Vol. 2 - Appendix D provides useful information for handling Patient Identifiers during a merge of records.

Underlying Standards:

• DICOM
• HL7

See Also

Related Profiles

• Scheduled Workflow provides the data handling framework and is a pre-requisite for PIR
• Patient Identifier Cross Referencing and Patient Demographics Query can be useful to establish the demographics to reconcile
• Systems implementing PIR are expected to operate on all relevant objects, including those created as part of Radiology Content Profiles.
• Workflow profiles in other domains were developed after PIR was written and were able to embed the transactions directly.

Consumer Information

The Patient Information Reconciliation FAQ answers typical questions about what the Profile does.

Patient Information Purchasing describes considerations when purchasing equipment to deploy this Profile.

Implementer Information

Patient Information Reconciliation Implementation provides additional information about implementing this Profile in software.

Reference Articles

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