LINKTools® EPLINK

A Bi-directional HL7 interface for BARDEP LabSystem™ PRO

EPLINK is an interface and work-flow enhancement tool that effectively enables users to receive patient demographics and/or EP Orders from a hospital information system and make that data available to one or more of BARD’s LabSystem™PRO. EPLINK’s upload module also enables confirmed EP test results to be automatically uploaded back to a hospital information system for billing and/or populating enterprise-wide electronic patient records. Redundant and inaccurate data entry is minimized and users are able to monitor the status of pending and completed Orders at any time. EPLINK is able to accept all the necessary components of an HL7 ADT or Orders Message and retain the information to generate an HL7 result and/or billing transaction. By utilizing the accurate and comprehensive data of the hospital information system, EPLINK minimizes the opportunity for orders and tests to be misplaced or lost. Furthermore, redundant and inaccurate data entry of patient information such as; the Patient’s ID, name, age, sex, race, location, height & weight, Order #, the ordering physician and the test priority, is eliminated. The standard interface is pre-configured to transmit (via TCP/IP socket connection) an HL7 result message of the LabSystem™PRO text, PDF or XML reports back to HIS or EMR systems

LINKTools® EPLINK Overview

1. Standard HL7 ADT/Order Messages using the minimal lower level protocol (MLLP) flow from the hospital information system to EPLINK via TCP/IP where they are processed and inserted into EPLINK’s intermediate database.
2. Orders messages that are specific to EP are passed directly through to LabSystem™ PRO. The lab technician selects the appropriate patient’s record and proceeds with the test. For an ADT interface the technician would first check for the patients record within LabSystem™PRO. If the patient is not found the technician sends a query to EPLINK.
3. EPLINK receives the query and matches it up with the correct patient and outputs the patient demographics back to LabSystem™PRO.
4. Results: Following confirmation of the EP study on LabSystem™ Pro, the study is automatically processed and reformatted by EPLINK into an HL7 Result and/or Billing Message
5. Finally, the HL7 Result and/or Billing Message are then transmitted back to the hospital information system and/or other HL7 compliant system via TCP/IP.
   
   

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