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Healthcare Technical Services Projects for December 11

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Added new Mapping file for Ftp interfaces.
Contacted a number of Practices for kick-off phase of their results distribution project.
Working with a Greenway to finalize the hospital costs for interfaces. Requested resubmission removing unwarranted costs and submission of a better per interface price. Received and is currently being processed.
Working with eCW for printing of interfaces. Requested we work on interface build and connectivity while the inte [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for December 4

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Added new Mapping file for Ftp interfaces.
Completing timer trigger testing for batching Ftp billing interfaces
Testing Meditech ADT batch interfaces
Debugged and updated new mapping for Lawson DFT refund file
Added new conditional connectors for Meditech DFT batch route
Updated system documentation
Provided additional mapping on Muse, Apollo, and Xcelera ancillaries
Performed functional testing Muse, Apollo, and Xcelera ancillaries
Performed Cross browser testing on X [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for November 27

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Added route to handle mapping HL72.3.1 to 2.5.1 in Rhapsody.
Created an archive database and communication point in Rhapsody that will archive all incoming messages.
Unit testing incoming test Lab messages
Testing timer trigger for batching Ftp interfaces
Performed Rhapsody 4.1.1 IDE upgrade.
Debugged and added new functionality for Ftp File logging.
Updated system documentation
Completed message analysis on Apollo results messages
Providing mapping changes for Clo [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for November 20

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Cardiology Reports Interface – Attended the kick off meeting to discuss first steps for this new reports interface.
HIE Patient Consent Internal Meeting – Attended this meeting to with the Hospital team to define their strategy for meeting requirements associated with patient consent and sending highly confidential data to the HIE.
HIE Patient Consent Meeting – Attended this meeting to discuss with other HIE early adopter Meditech organizations the plan for addre [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for November 13

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:00:00 +0100

HIE LAB Gap Analysis Internal Meeting – Attended and participated in this meeting to discuss solution to map Meditech LAB/MIC Department Prefix to HIE Lab Test Category.
LAB Results POC Interface – Coordinated and participated in this meeting to discuss the POC interface to Meditech via e*Gate. Remote install scheduled for next week.
HIE Patient Consent Internal Meeting – Attended this meeting to discuss with the hospital team to define the hospital strateg [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for November 6

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Attended meeting with Microsoft to generally discuss the HIE requirements for sending HL7 Table Values for “coded” fields.
Attended and participated in this meeting to discuss LAB Gap Analysis findings and action items.
Received notice that the VPN tunnel re-build was complete and was shocked to find that the connections started functioning properly again for all 4 data feeds to HIE. Subsequently, worked at length to re-queue (via new e*Gate feeder components) th [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for October 30

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0100

HIE HL7 Tables Meeting – Attended meeting with Microsoft to generally discuss the HIE requirements for sending HL7 Table Values for “coded” fields on Thursday 10/27.
HIE ITS Reports Gap Analysis – Attended and participated in this meeting to discuss ITS Report gap analysis findings and action items on Thursday 10/27.
Doctor EMR Interface Kick-off Meeting – Attended and participated in this meeting with multiple EMR Vendors on Thursday 10/27.
HIE Pat [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for October 23

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0100

HIE Internal LAB Meeting – Attended meeting to generally discuss the impact of the Meditech 5.6 upgrade on the HIE project.
Integration Team Support – Completed a health and wellness check on the production HIE schema in production after the re-boot of the ACL017 (Update2) cluster over the weekend. Worked at length attempting to resolve the “phantom” subscriber issue that was eventually identified and fixed (TEST system was connecting to PROD IQ Manager [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for October 16

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0100

HIE Patient Consent for PHI Meetings – Attended two meetings with management to discuss HIE requirements for opt-in / opt-out and also patient consent for highly confidential patient heath information (HC PHI) on Friday 10/14.
Integration Team Support – Completed synchronization of all components and associated collaboration rules that I’ve deployed for the Physician Integration schema. Completed this work with 5.6 Upgrade parallel testing preparation.
HIE [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for October 9

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0100

ADT Interface – Completed a series of test registrations in DB.TEST while working client remote site to address issues that were reported with the initial set of integrated test patients. Based on their feedback, had to modify the e*Gate routing and transformation rules to only send a single NK1 segment, default the value “EP” in NK1.7 for that single NK1, filter out all ADT events except the A01, A04, A05, A08 and A18 (translated from A34) and to filter out al [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for October 2

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0100

ADT Interface – Completed a series of test registrations in DB.TEST while working with facility to address issues that were reported with the initial set of integrated test patients. Based on their feedback, had to modify the e*Gate routing and transformation rules to only send a single NK1 segment, default the value “EP” in NK1.7 for that single NK1, filter out all ADT events except the A01, A04, A05, A08 and A18 (translated from A34) and to filter out all OBX segment [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for September 25

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:00:00 +0100

ITS Routing Rules Research and Changes – Completed detailed research on the content of ITS ORU messages in production and provided this information to the client along with a request for guidance regarding their requirements for identifying Radiology vs. Transcribed Reports. Worked to designate a Meditech ITS Expert IT resource to help with the ITS departments and report types. Ultimately, I was able to identify a relatively simple rule for identifying Radiology reports whic [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for September 18

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:00:00 +0100

We had several pre-DBV sessions to prepare for the DBV’s. I’m currently working on a vendor selection for Monitors and have contacted 3 of the larger monitors that were recommended by Epic. I am hoping to get these companies to come in and demonstrate their monitors during the DBV sessions.d record testing for the Carestream system. Identified 158 tests that are not built correctly in PRC and will fail.
ASAP this week provided screen captures of all of the navi [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for September 11

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Replaced Rhapsody ADT mapper as it was clipping off data at end of PV1 segment.
Mapped record testing for the Carestream system. Identified 158 tests that are not built correctly in PRC and will fail.
Conversations with Safety Surveillor on transmitting med admins to them as well.
The team attended meetings for Anesthesia and validated SME attendance for Validation Sessions in October and schedule of Validation Sessions. They also worked on mapping of Model Migration [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for September 4

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Replaced Rhapsody ADT mapper as it was clipping off data at end of PV1 segment.
Using the same input and output definition now to make it easier to maintain and put in place.
Carestream Radiology:
Started mass record testing for inpatient studies.
The order side build looks good but there are still issues with the PRC portion for the outpatient ordering piece.
Outpatient MRIs stopped working on results as ordering provider was not being returned. Messages look identical to inpatient [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for August 28

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Vrad to Mckesson Star Go-Live
Integration and Vrad Team meeting
Javascript to filter Chest Xrays for NICU patients
In progress Route Design FTP log/DB logger to capture Financial transaction between Meditech/Lawson/LSS
Designing SQL query to handle file properties and build email notifications
Integration Team Project Planning meeting
Created javascript to provide a flatfile to HL7 batched msg count
Created javascript to check Meditech flat file data for current date
Mentor [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for August 21

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Successful Cert deployment for primary Hospital facility.
A very successful kickoff led to even more productive team meetings this week. Each of the teams accomplished generally more than they had anticipated going in. Each of the teams took the opportunity to get to know each other, figure out their strengths and weaknesses, and then begin to plan their attack on the Gap Analysis phase. Orchestrate was very impressed by the amount of pre-work accomplished by [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for August 14

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Manage new practices introduced to the GRID.
Verify that practices are attached to new Medicity node.
Added provider for the practices to the GRID.
Worked with client to get additional examples, involved EMR vendor as the issues results, admission & discharge summaries and H&P were issues with the EMR.
Cache Upgrade Projected completed with accomplished code processing in production. No issues.
Identified a Carestream problem with free text Degree field n [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for August 7

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:00:00 +0100

CareStream Charges are processing correctly through transmittal process.
NYSID information is now processing
Changed coding so Rhapsody will handle leading 0s on provider ids less than 5 characters in length.
Asked to assist with internal Lab Charge Process using Rhapsody Engine for dataflow processing.
Production deployment preparation with internal Medicity Team.
Worked up outstanding Medicity Rally defects.
Eclipsys planning for cross system merge testing.
Eclipsys RIS ADT ma [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for July 31

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:00:00 +0100

Completed Datagate to Rhapsody test Scripts and testing.
Completed remaining client single system merge testing. Documented findings.
Final cleanup of client providers in SCM.
Review of ADT translations to RIS and testing preparation.
ePI and RIS related meetings and correspondence.
Revision and review of ePI issues list
continued calls with Medicity PM to track status & timeline, verified interface will be live with ProAccess 5.3 upgrade and forwarded screenshots as exa [...]