The following explains how CCOW notifies the Context Manager when a context change occurs.
Select a patient.
The application notifies the Context Manager to start a context change.
The Context Manager notifies the mapping agent that a context change is occurring. The mapping agent supplies the Context Manager with other identifiers known to be linked to a patient. With the Sentillion SDK Context Manager, this happens automatically when the patient context changes in the active application. With the dbMotion NextGen® Enterprise EHR Agent Context Manager, the user must initiate the patient context change by interacting with the dbMotion NextGen® Enterprise EHR. Agent utility application which hovers over the screen of the application.
The Context Manager notifies the other applications that a new patient context has been proposed.
Each participating application indicates whether or not it can apply the next context.
If one or more of the applications cannot apply the new context, a message is sent to the user on the instigating application asking if the user wants to Continue, Cancel or Break the Link. Otherwise, the context change continues automatically.
The Context Manager notifies all applications to either apply the new context or that the transaction has been canceled.
Each application applies the new context if instructed to do so by the Context Manager. Each application gets the new patient context from the Context Manager.
