Abstract: An intermediation server that can be used to consult and reference medical information relating to patients and stored in a computer network (10) with a plurality of data servers (12, 14, 16), includes an element for creating a shared medical record for a patient that is referenced in the network and an element for indexing medical information relating to the patient in the medical record thereof. Medical information is indexed with the aid of at least one pointer towards the location of the network in which the information is physically stored.

Abstract: A method for managing patients' identities of a computer network producing and storing medical data concerning the patients and referenced on the network by the latter's identities includes the following steps: searching on the network for the identities potentially associated with a common patient; validating (208) at least one found identity as being actually associated with the patient; selecting (214) an identity among the validated identities; and merging under the selected identity at least another validated identity, such that the at least one other identity merged is put offline, and that the data concerning the patient previously referenced by the at least one other merged identity are presently referenced by the selected identity of the patient.