Domains
Explore high-level business domains like Compliance, Data Access, and Report. Each domain groups related services and events.
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Discover the services that power the Link platform, their APIs, and the messages they produce and consume.
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Review the events, commands, and queries that flow through the system, including their JSON schemas and version history.
View MessagesCore Services
The Link platform is built on a suite of core services that work together to automate reporting workflows, from data acquisition through to submission.
- Platform agnostic: using interfaces for specific implementations such as Azure.
- Micro services: for scalability in cloud environments.
- Event driven: service interaction (where appropriate) using Kafka.
Data Acquisition Service
Responsible for retrieving raw data from external facility systems and initiating the processing pipeline.
View DetailsCensus Service
Manages patient population data and scoping for reporting periods and facilities.
View DetailsNormalization Service
Transforms varied facility data formats into a standardized, internal format suitable for evaluation.
View DetailsMeasure Evaluation Service
Executes business logic and clinical quality measures against normalized data to calculate metrics.
View DetailsValidation Service
Ensures that generated reports and data packages comply with NHSN standards and internal policies.
View DetailsSubmission Service
Handles the secure transmission of validated data and reports to external stakeholders and agencies.
View DetailsAdmin UI (front-end)
Web-based user interface for managing users, measures, validation profiles, terminology, tenants and reports.
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