IntegratingHealthcare

Creating Seamlessly Integrated Healthcare Systems

Portfolio

SAFEHealth Initiative

Peer-to-Peer data exchange between a Community Hospital and Physician Clinic.

Project: Grant Funded initiative between Community Hospital and Fallon Clinics. Designed as a peer to peer partnership to allow for the sharing of patient data between a healthcare system, clinics to improve patient care by allowing Emergency Room Physicians immediate access to the patients historical data.

  • Project Highlights:
    • Soarian Finanicals to Fallon SAFEHealth (Demographics):
      • TPC/IP Connections, HL7 ADT Message Type
    • TouchMedix TouchED to Fallon SAFEHealth (Discharge Summary):
      Conversion of Flat File report document to an HL7 Transaction, a PERL script was used to reformat portions of the data as it was converted to HL7.
      • FTP, TPC/IP Connections, HL7 ORU Message Type, PERL Script
    • Fallon SAFEHealth to Siemens Imaging, EDM (Physicals, Office Visits and Consults):
      Conversion of HL7 transaction to a Flat File report document and .eps File genration for upload into the EDM application. A PERL script was created to reformat portions of the data and to create teh .eps file.
      • FTP, TPC/IP Connections, HL7 MDM Message Type
    • Siemens Imaging, EDM to Siemens Soarian Clinicals (Embedded URL):
      An HL7 transaction carrying an embedded URL is sent from Siemens EDM to the Soarian Clinicals creating the result entry under the appropriate date and time of the event in the patient record.
      • TPC/IP Connections, HL7 ORU Message Type