Suggested Connections

Feature Overview

The Location-Based Connection Suggestions feature enhances the accessibility of medical records and healthcare provider discovery by using a patient’s geographic location to suggest relevant connections. . This functionality allows patients to not only retrieve their medical records more easily from local health systems, but also view a comprehensive list of nearby healthcare facilities and practitioners. Using location-based technology, this feature ensures that patients receive the most relevant and proximate suggestions, making it easier to find and make connections.

End User Value

• Localized Healthcare Options: Automatically presents users with health systems in their vicinity, simplifying the process of finding medical records.
• Customized Suggested Connections: Tailors search outcomes based on the user’s location, ensuring that the information is highly relevant and immediately useful.
• Efficient Healthcare Navigation: Saves time and reduces the complexity of searching for connections by eliminating the need to manually filter results by location.

User Journey(s) Enabled

• Suggest near-by Health Systems:
  Prior to entering search terms for hospitals, health systems, or clinics, users can be presented with a list of near-by health systems based on the user's current geographical location or home address.

• Suggest near-by Providers:
  Prior to entering search terms for individual providers, users can be presented with a list of providers and healthcare practitioners based on the user's current geographical location or home address.

Integration with SDK

The Suggested Connection features are supported by the searchProviders and searchConnections methods.

Suggest near-by Health Systems
Utilizes the searchConnections method to return search results based on the user's current location or home address without user input of search terms. The relevant location can be passed into the request using latitude and longitude coordinates.

For further detail on the searchConnections method, please refer to the Search Connections method guide.

Suggest near-by Providers
Utilizes the searchProviders method to return search results based on the user's current location or home address without user input of search terms. The relevant location can be passed into the request using latitude and longitude coordinates.

For further detail on the searchProviders method, please refer to the Search Providers method guide.