There are a seemingly endless number of data formats, data feeds, and electronic interfaces in use in modern healthcare facilities. Unfortunately, there are very few interoperability standards available to let you share the data among your various applications and data stores. Recognizing that data format incompatibilities can compromise patient health care and drive up your data processing overhead, we have developed multiple software applications and tools that can handle all of your data input, conversion, and exchange needs.
This virtual print driver can take any document type from a Windows print device, and then auto-number, index, and archive the documents. This very flexible tool can be configured and run in unattended batch mode or in manual mode, can be used for batch processing or for single documents. This universal interface can be configured for any electronic document, and for output to specific destinations based on form type.
The Data Conversion Station (DCS) accepts electronic data feeds from virtually any source: live data feeds, files stored on or sent to a directory, and files archived on third-party systems. After accepting files, DCS automatically creates indexes, converts your files to an appropriate format if necessary and then stores them in the EMR Archive System.
Optionally, you can choose to have DCS route converted record batches to Indexing queues, or other locations, prior to release to the EMR Archive System.
With DCS’s Dynamic CSV file creation capability, vendors can now deliver TIFF or PDF files that include indexing information in the file name, as opposed to having to supply separate image and CSV files.
DCS is extremely versatile fast.
Data Import/Export is a portal application that can accept input from doctors’ offices as well as from patients on a variety of media formats: CDs, DVDs, thumb drives, etc. The system automatically handles the conversion of the documents (if required), indexes them, and stores them on the EMR Archive.
The Portal has an adapter that interfaces with most commercial Enterprise Master Patient Indexes (EMPIs) on the market. For custom EMPIs, we can typically extend our high-performance adapter to meet your needs.
HL7 is a commonly used method for communicating between systems that use non-common data formats. Valco’s high-performance adapter is embedded in one application to allow data transfer with a second, incompatible application. A typical scenario might involve getting access to a PACs system from a portal application.
Once installed, VHL7 Listener does not normally require any further attention. As a Windows service, it is set to Start automatically on startup and so requires no attention after server shutdowns.
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