Workflow Event Step

POS Action

EHRi System Action

EHR IP reference

Log on to the EHR system (in the current jurisdiction)

The physician arrives at the clinic in the morning and logs into his EMR system.

The POS EMR system sends, to the EHRi system, a request to log on to the EHR System.

The user is authenticated and authorized to use the EHRi System.

EHRIP16 User Log On

The EHRi system sends an acknowledgment to the POS system that the user has been logged on successfully.

The POS EMR system displays a successful EHRi system connection.

View the notifications list (in the current jurisdiction)

The physician accesses to the notifications section of the clinic’s EMR system.

The POS EMR system searches and does not find local notification.

The POS EMR system sends, to the EHRi system, a request to obtain notifications for this provider.

The EHRi system searches and finds a notification event (in the current jurisdiction), for this specific provider.

EHRIP12 List Events

(Event Type = Notification)

The EHRi system returns, to POS system, a list of notification events (with one event).

The POS EMR system receives and displays the notification list.

View the detail of notification (in the current jurisdiction)

The physician sees that he has lab results, among other information, to review.

The physician looks at the list of results and selects to view the report for a specific patient.

The physician selects this notification in the clinic’s EMR system.

The POS EMR system sends, to the EHRi system, a search request (with the key identifiers indicated in the notification event), to find the detail of this notification event.

The EHRi system searches and finds the events linked with the selected notification event (with the key identifiers indicated in the selected notification event).

EHRIP12 List Events

(Event Type = Lab Results Notification)

The EHRi system returns, to POS system, a list of events linked with the notification event.

The POS EMR system displays the summary list of health service events linked with the notification event.

The physician looks at the summary list of health service events (linked with the notification event) and selects an event to see more detail.

(the physician can repeat this step for each health service event as needed)

The POS EMR system sends, to the EHRi system, a search request (with the key identifiers indicated in the selected health service event), to find the detail of the selected health service event.

The EHRi system searches and finds the detail of event in the selected health service event (with the key identifiers indicated in the selected health service event).

EHRIP13 Get Event

The EHRi system returns, to POS system, the detail of health service event.

The POS EMR system displays the detail of health service event.

The physician sees that the Chlamydia swab is positive.

The physician asks the office nurse to call patient in so that he can counsel her on this and prescribe treatment.