We talked about this about 2 weeks ago. I'd like to come back to it again.
I want to interface the lab in my office into VistA. The suggestion that I was given was to get the equipment to send HL-7 messages to VistA. So I went to our lab and pulled the technical manual for each of the pieces of equipment. I can't tell that a single one will generate HL-7 messages. Here is what we have: 1. Beckman Coulter Synchron CX5 delta http://www.beckman.com/products/instrument/genchem/cx5delta.asp This is our chemistries machine 2. Beckman Coulter Access Immunoassay system http://www.beckman.com/products/instrument/immunoassay/access.asp This runs our PSA's and TSH's 3. Cell-Dyn 1700 http://www.abbottdiagnostics.com/Instruments/default.cfm?syscat_id=4&sys_id=16&path=1 This does our CBC's 4. Helena Labs Cascade M4 http://www.helena.com/catalog/CascadeM.htm This does our Protimes/INR's 5. Hologic QDR dexascanner http://www.hologic.com/wh/discov.htm This does our osteoporosis evaluations (This one DOES have a DICOM interface) 6. Other lab tests that we do that would likely have to have valued entered directly into VistA would be: UA, monoscreen, strep screen, pregnancy tests, ESR, manual differentials for CBC's Our Beckman Coulter machines are designed to connect to a limited "data-link" computer system that maintains a database of patient names and test results. The manual for the "datalink" doesn't mention anything about how to communicate to other computers. Our other equipments have RS232 ports. Would I have to manually create "drivers" for these devices? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Kevin ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
