From: Jobin, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:17 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
David & Lew,
Meditech can provide a direct interface with Pyxis. Last
time I used it, it was 10,000.00. It is a standard HL7 Interface. OR
rather than purchase multiple HL7 interfaces from MT for different outside
systems, I told MT that I wanted one out interface for patient reg and
demographics and I wanted one generic in to MT for charges. They gave me a
bad time saying that they needed to know what I was going to interface to, but I
held my ground and they did give me what I wanted. I had them build their
interface to go to a preset IP and receive from a set IP. The server at
the IP was running an HL7 program I wrote using Neotools. That program
accepted the data from MT, real-time (admissions, discharges, transfers, IP, OP,
and OBS). The program then output the same data to where I wanted
it. In this case I sent a set to Pyxis, a set to a SQL database for data
warehouse and another set to a cath lab program. If I had gone to MT with
each interface this would have cost over 30,000. Once the Neotools program
was written, to add a new location, I just added the IP it was going to go
to. The reverse was the same for charges. It is a great way to get
the data to an outside system and use the same data for an internal webpage for
administration (i.e. dashboard) showing real-time census by phy, F/C and others
all on one page.
All this is not to take away from BWS, but I believe you should always
try to use the correct tool for each job. I have programmed hundreds of
tasks with BWS. In fact, I will be presenting at Region 5 MUSE the end of
October a number of different time and money saving ways of using
BWS.
Good Luck,
Michael Jobin
MAJConsulting
