hl7 interfacing: how to lose the trial-and-error and go live faster

HL7 Interfacing:How to Lose the Trial-and-Error and

Go Live Faster

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If you’re an interface developer…

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…you’ve probably had this conversation before....

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You: “Where’s the MRN in this feed?”Colleague: “Well, it’s usually in PID-3. But it doesn’t look like it’s here.”

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You: “Wasn’t it in the vendor documentation?”Colleague: “You mean the PDF from 2006?”

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You check the PDF from 2006.

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And it’s supposed to be in a subcomponent of PID4.1.

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You’ve got two conflicting data points on this one field that you thought would be a piece of cake.

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You go back to the drawing board.

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And you spend the next 2 hours counting pipes, looking for MRN patterns.

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You figure out where the MRN is.

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It’s in PID-18,of all places.

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One issue down.

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Loads more to go…

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…with a go-live date looming and no way to know if the team can hit it.

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So your manager gets busy resetting expectations up the food chain and with the customer.

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You keep moving.

You get to the next topic: lab values.

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Those lab observation values in OBX-5.

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The last time you needed OBX-5 values, they took3 weeks to extract from the lab system.

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This time, you’ve got 4 days.

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4 days.

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No way the lab folks can get them in 4 days.

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Unless…

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…you have Caristix Central.

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Caristix Central helps you manage the entire interfacing lifecycle, so you go live faster.

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Scope interfaces thoroughly before starting configuration and validation.

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Share information and collaborate with your entire team, including vendors and consultants.

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First, what does scope thoroughly mean?

It means you get structure.• Trigger events/message types

– Name, description– Business rules. Interactions

• Segments– Optionality, repeatability, z-segments

• Fields, components, subcomponents– Length, data type, optionality,

repeatability, table number, name.

• Data types– Standard and custom data types

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And, it means you get content.• Tables & content

– Label, value, comment– Full range of values for

applications– LOINC, SNOMED, local,

custom codes

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Those OBX-5 lab values we talked about earlier?

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Get LIS messages, 10 minutes of processing in Caristix Central, and you’re done.

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Even better, those values are there for whoever needs them next.

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No need to dig through old emails or old Excel files.

It’s just there in Central.

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That will makeyour life easier.

What about your manager’s?

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Central’s going to make her life easier, too.

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Her team does the discovery and scoping work upfront.

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That means less time on interface configuration and less rework during validation.

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So project milestones and go-live dates are shorter… and more realistic.

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The work is reusable, too. So processes are leaner, less wasteful.

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That means customers are happier.

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Project and resource planning is simpler and less expensive.

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That interface lifecycle?

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By starting off on the right foot, your organization lets the data just flow.

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Central is coming soon.

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Contact Caristix to learn more about the launch.

central@caristix.com