Patient Identifier Cross-referencing for mobile (PIXm), published by IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 3.0.5-current built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/IHE/ITI.PIXm/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

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The Patient Identifier Cross-reference for Mobile (PIXm) Profile provides RESTful transactions for mobile and lightweight browser-based applications to create, update and delete patient records in a Patient Identifier Cross-reference Manager and to query the Patient Identifier Cross-reference Manager for a patient’s cross-domain identifiers.

Organization of This Guide

This guide is organized into following sections:

• Volume 1: Use-Case Analysis
  • 41.1 PIXm Actors, Transactions, and Content Modules
  • 41.2 PIXm Actor Options
  • 41.3 PIXm Required Actor Groupings
  • 41.4 PIXm Overview
  • 41.5 PIXm Security Considerations
  • 41.6 PIXm Cross Profile Considerations
• Volume 2: Transaction Detail
  • 3.83 Patient Identifier Cross-reference Query [ITI-83]
  • 3.104 Patient Identity Feed FHIR [ITI-104]
• Other
  • Test Plan
  • Changes to Other Documents
  • Download and Analysis

Click on any of the links above, navigate the contents using the Table of Contents or, if you are looking for a specific artifact, see the index of Artifacts.

Conformance Expectations

IHE uses the normative words: Shall, Should, and May according to standards conventions.

PIXm uses Must Support in StructureDefinitions with the definition found in Appendix Z. This is equivalent to the IHE use of R2 as defined in Appendix Z.