http://caristix.com If you're responsible for HL7 interface implementation or technical services, there's a lot riding on client projects. Can you keep pace with customer needs? Read more about a new approach that can break through bottlenecks caused by trial and error.

1. HL7 Interfacing:
How to Lose the Trial-and-Error and
Go Live Faster

2. If you’re an
interface
developer…
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3. …you’ve probably
had this
conversation
before....
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4. 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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5. You: “Wasn’t it in
the vendor
documentation?”
Colleague: “You
mean the PDF from
2006?”
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6. You check the PDF
from 2006.
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7. And it’s supposed
to be in a
subcomponent of
PID4.1.
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8. You’ve got two
conflicting data points
on this one field
that you thought
would be a piece of
cake.
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9. You go back to the
drawing board.
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10. And you spend the
next 2 hours
counting
pipes, looking for
MRN patterns.
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11. You figure out
where the MRN is.
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12. It’s in PID-18,
of all places.
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13. One issue down.
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14. Loads more to go…
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15. …with a go-live
date looming
and no way to know
if the team can hit
it.
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16. So your manager
gets busy resetting
expectations up the
food chain and with
the customer.
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17. You keep moving.
You get to the next
topic: lab values.
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18. Those lab
observation values
in OBX-5.
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19. The last time you
needed OBX-5
values, they took
3 weeks to extract
from the lab system.
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20. This time, you’ve
got 4 days.
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21. 4 days.
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22. No way
the lab folks
can get them
in 4 days.
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23. Unless…
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24. …you have
Caristix Central.
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26. Caristix Central
helps you manage
the entire
interfacing
lifecycle, so you go
live faster.
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27. Scope interfaces
thoroughly before
starting
configuration and
validation.
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28. Share information
and collaborate with
your entire
team, including
vendors and
consultants.
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29. First, what does scope
thoroughly mean?
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30. 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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31. 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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32. Those OBX-5 lab
values we talked
about earlier?
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33. Get LIS messages,
10 minutes of
processing in
Caristix Central,
and you’re done.
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34. Even better, those
values are there for
whoever needs
them next.
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35. No need to dig
through old emails
or old Excel files.
It’s just there in
Central.
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36. That will make
your life easier.
What about your
manager’s?
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37. Central’s going to
make her life
easier, too.
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38. Her team does the
discovery and
scoping work
upfront.
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39. That means less
time on interface
configuration and
less rework during
validation.
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40. So project milestones
and go-live dates are
shorter…
and more realistic.
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41. The work is
reusable, too.
So processes are
leaner,
less wasteful.
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42. That means
customers are
happier.
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43. Project and
resource planning
is simpler and less
expensive.
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44. That
interface lifecycle?
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46. By starting off on
the right foot, your
organization lets
the data just flow.
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47. Central is coming soon.
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48. Contact Caristix to
learn more about the
launch.
central@caristix.com
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