Interconnect

product overview surescripts health information network facilitates exchange on behalf of its participants and subparticipants interconnect allows participants to electronically discover potential locations of patient records and exchange clinical data with other participants of the surescripts health information network as well as participants of other qualified health information networks (qhins) under the trusted exchange framework and common agreement (tefca) participants are able to request and retrieve those records to and from the surescripts health information network using the hl7® fhir® standard transactions about this guide this guide was created to assist participants and subparticipants in developing and sending messages needed to electronically query locations of patient records from the surescripts health information network interconnect and identify patient records within their source healthcare facilities or vendor systems and facilitate the exchange of records found the audience for this document includes any surescripts health information network participant or subparticipants responsible for developing a system interface for these hl7® fhir® messages this guide is meant to support, integrate and further clarify the hl7® fhir® specification and best practices as used when transacting through the surescripts health information network it does not reproduce the base standards in their entirety when developing, this guide should be used along with additional documentation referenced and applicable customary coding standards document references please reference the following documents when reading this guide surescripts health information network provided materials surescripts connectivity and authentication implementation guide directory implementation guide additional required external materials to be obtained by the customer note these external materials contain additional obligations that must be met by the participant in order to access the surescripts health information network hl7® fhir® release 4 hl7 org (needed to obtain home community id) qhin technical framework portions of this guide utilize the hl7® fhir® standard messaging standard 4 as a baseline in conjunction with this surescripts health information network interconnect implementation guide, participants should have a copy of the fhir® standard document readily available for use with the messages documentation can be obtained through health level seven international the hl7® fhir® standard is copyrighted for licensing and legal terms information, refer to the following link https //hl7 org/fhir/r4/license html https //hl7 org/fhir/r4/license html