Connecting for Health’s Common Framework Model and IHE’s PIX/PDQ

John D. Halamka, MD, CIO, and Charles Parisot, CareGroup/Harvard Medical School, Boston. To match patient records interoperably in a distributed and complex healthcare system, the proposed Common Framework has mapped a record locator service for distributed patient records to the IHE Patient Identifier Cross Reference (PIX) and Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) integration profiles.  Dr. Halamka and Charles review the Connecting for Health approach and how your organization can benefit.