Provider Index

cPI creates and maintains a comprehensive and trusted directory of information about facilities, health professionals, organizations and the services they provide. It provides users with a comprehensive searchable directory and an authorization tool.

cPI is designed to handle the myriad of disparate data that exists among different healthcare organizations. By aggregating information from the multiple independent systems that currently exist, cPI provides one accurate, virtual record which becomes the trusted source provider contact details, identifiers for health services within an organization or a region.

Using cPI, health professionals can quickly access colleagues' contact information, IT systems can verify the access rights of users wishing to access their resources, the public can search for contact details of their local health professionals, specialists, hospitals, pharmacies and other healthcare organizations and primary health professionals can access waiting lists in order to refer their patients more effectively.

Key benefits
cPI offers tangible benefits to physicians and health administrators:

• Provides one consistent and accurate identifier, which links all disparate identifiers
• Standardizes health professional demographic, practicing, and facility data by providing one authoritative central reference point for all data. This yields significant cost savings across an integrated health community through the pooling of resources.
• Ensures information is always accurate and up to date
• Enables health professionals, agencies, and patients to search for comprehensive provider information against the one source and thus reducing the time and hassle involved in interacting with each different system.

Seamless integration with existing systems
cPI uses open systems technology and industry standard protocols and message formats, allowing it to effortlessly integrate with best of breed IT systems. Data can be imported/exported, using XML or CSV files.

Where the data format in existing departmental systems prevents records being directly uploaded to the cPI, Orion Health's Rhapsody Integration Engine can be used to map the data into a compatible format. This technique enables existing applications to be rapidly integrated with the cPI.