When introducing assigning authorities for medical record identifiers (MRN, MPI, or Chart ID), you must run an initializer task to configure default assigning authorities. Assigning authority fields cannot have blank or null values, so this task ensures that records include a default assigning authority for the specified identifiers. See the Unity Scheduler documentation for general information on how to create tasks.
You can also safely run multiple services to perform the initialization process. This allows processing throughput to be increased by running multiple services concurrently. The process of updating individual documents can be sped up by having documents of multiple Document Types concurrently updated. Each instance of the Unity Scheduler will work on a separate Document Type.
Multiple services should be for the same Task, meaning that multiple NT Services should be running under the same Task Group to allow for an increase in concurrent processing. Do not attempt to improve performance by creating multiple Tasks or Task Groups. It is more effective to run multiple clients all configured for the same Task.
To create an assigning authority initializer task:
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Select Medical Records Assigning Authority Initializer from the drop-down list when prompted to select the type of task you want to create.
Note:You can create multiple Medical Records Assigning Authority Initializer tasks, however, only one task will run at a time.
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Click Next. The next page of the wizard is used to specify which identifier fields should be initialized with a default assigning authority value.
