Patent ID: 8825775

Claim:
A computer implemented method, comprising: determining, at a configuration receiver, a first set of identifiers used by a first healthcare entity to uniquely identify subjects of healthcare messages and a second set of identifiers used by a second healthcare entity to uniquely identify subjects of healthcare messages by receiving information from the first and second healthcare entities, the first and second set of identifiers being different; generating, at a correlation generator, a plurality of correlators based on the first and second set of identifiers, the correlators to correlate subjects of incoming messages to the first and second set of identifiers, wherein each of the correlators is customizable to handle a specific type of healthcare message; storing the first and second sets of identifiers into an electronic clinical information system; in response to receiving a healthcare message from the first or second healthcare entity, identifying first one or more subjects of the healthcare message for correlation to an identifier stored in the electronic clinical information system; selecting, at a correlator selector, one of the correlators for each identified subject to correlate each identified subject; and correlating the identified subjects of the message using the selected correlator for each identified subject to associate each of the identified subjects with an identifier stored in the electronic clinical information system.