Using vendor-independent protocols to perform identity and access management for electronic medical record instances

Abstract

A facility for providing access to an electronic medical record instance receives a login attempt from a client device that provides login credentials. The facility uses these login credentials to access an account key associated with the login credentials, and retrieves from a patient link database a mapping from the accessed account key to a mapped-to record identifier and a mapped-to instance identifier. The mapped-to record identifier identifies a patient record maintained on an electronic medical record instance identified by the mapped-to instance identifier. The facility uses the mapped-to record identifier and mapped-to instance identifier to provide the client device access to the patient record having the mapped-to record identifier on the instance identified by the mapped-to instance identifier.