Healthcare internet service provider proxy

A method for a Health Information Service Providers Proxy (HISP) for Electronic Medical Records (EMR)-focused and Non-EMR focused environments for healthcare organizations (HCOs) to manage their Direct Secure Messaging (DSM) and HISP communications comprising the steps of:

• providing a DSM message bus located between HCO end-users and a HISP, the DSM Message Bus having an interior interface having a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) server interface and an Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Secure (S-SMTP)/Simplified Post Office Protocol (S-POP)/Internet Message Access Protocol Interface (IMAPI) interface, an email relay, an exterior interface, and a Service Bus in communication with the interior interface and the exterior interface;
• an accounting service;
• a privacy policy service;
• and a document distribution service;
• intercepting inbound messages with the DSM Message Bus and then passing the messages there through;
• using the interior interface to interface with DSM users;
• using the email relay to interface with other non-DSM users;
• using the exterior interface to interface with the HISP and mimicking the interface behavior of SOAP clients or the S-SMPT/S-POP/IMAPI clients;
• executing an ordered chain of functional service components by the Service Bus in communication with the interior interface and the exterior interface as messages pass through the DSM Message Bus;
• providing Accounting of Disclosures (AoD) by the accounting service in accordance with the accounting service providing protected health information, and parsing via the accounting service outbound message attachments to determine an identity of a patient whose information is being disclosed and recording patient related data for the AoD in a database;
• providing compliance with disclosure restrictions via the privacy policy service, the privacy policy service being configured with hospital policy;
• tracking patient restrictions via the private policy service;
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• receiving the documents to be distributed via the document distribution service and sending the documents to an intended recipient via DSM, Fax, Email notification with a secure pickup link, or an Exception queue.