LINKTools® for Cardiac Cath Lab
Waltham, Ma., March 16, 1998
LINKTools® for Cardiac Cath is designed
to help Cardiac Cath labs meet the challenge of efficient
use of time and personnel together with the keeping of accurate
and comprehensive patient records. Cardiology departments
spend significant resources on intensive manual data entry
and data validation. At the same time the expense of implementing
a typical custom interface can impede the progress of data
integration. LINK Medical Computing, Inc. recognizes this
predicament that Cardiac catheterization labs are in and
addresses it now with LINKTools® for Cardiac Cath.
An industry first, LINKTools®
for Cardiac Cath, is a pre-configured results reporting
interface for hemodynamic monitors to HL7 compliant systems
that can be installed by the user.
LINK Medical is a strong advocate and supporter
of existing and emerging information interchange standards
in healthcare and is an active member of such groups as
Health Level 7, the Andover Working Group (AWG), Microsoft
Healthcare User group (MS-HUG) and the Open Cardiology Initiative
(OCI). LINKTools for Cardiac Cath reflects LINK’s commitment
to standards by embodying HL7 messaging, LOINC vocabulary
for data encoding and ACC97 requirements for data reporting
in the core product.
As with all LINK’s interface products,
the underlying core technology is LINKTools® (v.3.0).
LINKTools® are a time-proven, highly flexible suite
of software integration modules that enable the interchange
of data among different computer systems, instruments and
even different applications on the same system. "LINKTools
evolved from the need to move away from custom interfacing
towards more generic, supportable instrument and system
interfaces at the department level", said Clifford
Goldsmith, President of LINK Medical Computing. The latest
version of LINKTools® 3.0, allows for the efficient
use of distributed, background processing on workstations
running Microsoft’s Windows 95 or Windows NT.
LINK Medical Computing, Inc. works closely
with vendors of cardiology systems and instruments. For
LINK’s vendor partners,
LINKTools® for Cardiac Cath answers the age-old dilemma
of providing their customers with a well-described and entirely
understood interface that is also extremely cost-effective.
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