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<Specific rules / expectations>
6.0 Responsibilities of the Match Connect System / Broker
The Match Connect system acts as a central broker of information exchange between registries participating in the Match Connect ecosystem. The Match Connect system bears responsibility to:
- Route information from the sending registry to the receiving registry
- Ensure integrity of the data in the Search & Match Service
- Perform syntactic validation of the information (e.g. appropriate information structure, allowable values, valid dates, etc)
- Validate the HLA of patient data for fields which are contained in the Search & Match Service
In performing these duties, the Match Connect system will inspect the contents of messages to determine who to route messages to and to perform basic validation. This content is not intended to be reviewed by administrators of the system except in cases of investigating message failures or data synchronization problems. Original message contents will never be modified by the central system but additional meta information "blocks" will be added to ensure the receiving registry is aware of:
- What registry sent the information
- Any failed validations detected by the Match Connect system
6.1 Embedded Address block
Original message: Address to broadcast [NEW_ADD]
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