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…


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


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.”


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


You check the PDF from 2006.


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


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


You go back to the drawing board.


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


You figure out where the MRN is.


It’s in PID-18,of all places.


One issue down.


Loads more to go…


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


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


You keep moving.

You get to the next topic: lab values.


Those lab observation values in OBX-5.


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


This time, you’ve got 4 days.


4 days.


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


Unless…


…you have Caristix Central.

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


Scope interfaces thoroughly before starting configuration and validation.


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


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


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

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

applications– LOINC, SNOMED, local,

custom codes



Those OBX-5 lab values we talked about earlier?


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


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


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

It’s just there in Central.


That will makeyour life easier.

What about your manager’s?


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


Her team does the discovery and scoping work upfront.


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


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


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


That means customers are happier.


Project and resource planning is simpler and less expensive.


That interface lifecycle?


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


Central is coming soon.


Contact Caristix to learn more about the launch.

[email protected]

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