System and Method for Providing Patient Record Synchronization In a Healthcare Setting

A method of managing data within a healthcare information management system, the healthcare information management system comprising at least one deployment, the deployment including data stored within a data structure, the data at least relating to a data entity of the enterprise healthcare system and the deployment being operable for autonomous management of the data stored within the data structure, a data record corresponding to the data entity and having a first portion identifying a generation of the data record and a second portion of the data record identifying an update history of the data record;

• the method comprising the steps of:
• receiving at a deployment of the healthcare information system a data record for a data entity;
• updating at the deployment the data record;
• and
• correspondingly incrementing the generation to a current generation and the update history table to reflect the updating deployment and the current generation.

An enterprise healthcare information management system comprising:

• at least a first deployment and a second deployment;
• the first deployment having a first data structure with a first data structure configuration for storing data therein and the second deployment having a second data structure with a second data structure configuration, different from the first data structure configuration, for storing data therein, the data at least relating to a data entity of the enterprise healthcare system and each deployment operable for autonomous management of the data stored within its respective data structure;
• a communication network communicatively coupling the first and second deployments;
• and
• each deployment having a data mapping functionality, the data mapping functionality operable to reconcile data stored in one of the first deployment and the second deployment for use in the other of the first deployment and the second deployment upon communication of data from the other deployment to the one deployment.