Actors

Overview

This section defines the actors and transactions covered in this implementation guide. The figure below shows the actors involved in medical record indexing and the relevant transactions between them.

Descriptions of actors

Actor name	Description	Realization example
Medical record index	Register for storing indices of medical records of patients spread out in different systems at different care providers.	PDI (patientdataindex) developed by the Swedish e-health Agency
Medical record index writer	System responsible to register and unregister medical record indices	EHR system used by a care provider in Sweden

For further details on each actor and what capabilities they support, see sub pages Medical Record Index and Medical Record Index Writer.

Transactions

Create index record

When a new patient-care provider relationship has been created and health information is made available for exchange, the medical record index writer should send a request to create a new index record. The medical record index receives and manages this request.

This transaction is made possible through the Create Index Record operation.

Unregister index record

When a care provider stops making the health information available for exchange the medical record index writer requests to unregister the earlier created index record. The medical record index receives and manages this request.

This transaction is made possible through the Unregister Index Record operation.