Product Documentation
Installation, configuration, matching engine administration, REST API reference and operations guides for OpenEMPI.
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Installation & Deployment
Set up OpenEMPI on Unix/Linux with Tomcat, PostgreSQL and OrientDB, using the installer or a distribution archive.
Administrative Console
User guide for the console UI: data loading, record stewardship, matching configuration and custom fields.
RESTful Web Services & APIs
Developer reference for the entity-aware REST resources, WADL specifications and query endpoints.
Upgrade Instructions
Step-by-step migration guides for moving an OpenEMPI instance between 3.5.x, 3.6.x and 4.x releases.
System Maintenance & Operations
Backups, audit log rotation, OrientDB server mode, notification queues and performance metrics.
IHE PIX/PDQ Testing
Overview and test cases for the IHE Patient Identifier Cross-Referencing and Patient Demographics Query profiles.
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Installation Instructions
10 pagesIn this section we provide installation instructions for the 3.x.y version of OpenEMPI. There are sections dedicated to…
Upgrade Instructions
11 pagesOpenEMPI documentation: Upgrade Instructions.
Administrative Console
43 pagesThe Administrative Console allows you to manage user accounts, configure security, and set other administrative features.
The Administrative Console is the web application that you can use to configure and manage your instance of OpenEMPI. After…
This section of the documentation describes the new web services interface which is independent of the model of the entity that…
One of the interfaces that OpenEMPI provides for integrating it into an existing Health IT infrastructure is a web services…
IHE PIX/PDQ Testing for OpenEMPI
25 pagesThis page is the starting point for all documentation relating to the process of certifying OpenEMPI as IHE PIX/PDQ compliant.
Identifier Change Notification
3 pagesClinical data associated with a patient are stored in the document repository of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system in…
System Maintenance
18 pagesThis page describes maintenance tasks that the system administrator of an OpenEMPI instance may need to perform either while…
OpenEMPI documentation: Release Notes.
OpenEMPI documentation: Release Notes (Retired).
Load Testing
3 pagesThis page describes the configuration, the test scenarios and results of the load testing conducted against each major release of…
Additional guides
- Installation of the OrientDB Database All the records that are loaded into an instance of OpenEMPI and the links that are created as a result of…
- Installation on Unix/Linux The first step is to ensure that you have downloaded the appropriate https://ope…
- Installation on Unix/Linux (Tomcat 8) The first step is to ensure that you have downloaded the appropriate https://ope…
- Installation of Legacy Distribution Format NOTE: You should no longer be installing OpenEMPI using this approach. Installations made using this approach…