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HIE Technical Components. ‌ A modern, secure web-based physician portal is the foundation of an HIE. The Clinical Portal ensures that the right information is accessible by the appropriate users at the right time by providing a single point of access to a unified view of patient information across the organization. Depending on the clinician’s role and place of work, this can include patient records and medical histories, laboratory and radiology results, ECG/EKG data, medication records, and any other applications that have been integrated into the portal. The Clinical Portal includes world-class privacy and security standards for effective health information exchange while still protecting the patient’s right to privacy. The Integration Engine combines powerful messaging capabilities with a simple and easy to use interface, which means HIT administrators can quickly and easily create interfaces with new health care organizations, agencies and national programs. The Integration Engine standards based technology enables it to integrate existing information systems within an organization, without the costly need to replace, as well as being able to connect to other regional networks such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Medicare and private laboratories. The CDR is a data repository designed specifically for the health care industry. It enables the creation and maintenance of a secure, single patient record that can be securely accessed and updated by hospital clinicians and administrators and authorized external parties like primary care providers, insurers, social services agencies and specialist consultants. The data repository is maintained separately from the Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) and Record Locator Service (RLS) to add an additional layer of security. The EMPI solution embeds Initiate Systems Catalyst EMPI application, which includes two major software components: Initiate Catalyst Platform and a prebuilt patient registry used to solve a variety of identify management needs and founded upon Initiate’s heralded algorithm matching excellence. The EMPI delivers single, trusted and complete version of records in real- time and enables users to obtain a complete and accurate view of all data associated with persons, objects, locations and events. A typical HIE is comprised of many individual systems sharing clinical information. In order for these systems to communicate efficiently, an HIE relies on systems using trusted data exchange standa...