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Healthcare Technical Services Projects for February 12

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0100

Completed documentation on a per route level regarding its functions for two critical sites. Continued testing with those files that have been provided without incident. Made some corrections to comments in the code to reflect the most recent changes.
Working with multiple Medicity NOVO clients on EMR installs. The target EMRs are ALTOS, Greenway, e-Vitro and Allscripts at this time.
Reviewed specifications for Greenway/PrimeSuite Interface.
Review of grid deployment [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for February 5

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0100

Completed documentation on a per route level regarding its functions for two critical sites. Continued testing with those files that have been provided without incident. Made some corrections to comments in the code to reflect the most recent changes.
Made adjustments to the flag sterile logic to properly flag those results that don't match the sterile location lookup. Updated the code in all the mappers with this change. Ran a test against a specific COCCI message that I feel should [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for January 29

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0100

Updated Medicity hospital agent with provider activity for client.
Testing/analyzing historical radiology messages loaded into Epic
Identified additional changes required for back-loading radiology data
Created new interface to generate a test plans for Radiology users to document test results in Epic.
Loaded new conversion Apollo extracts into Epic.
Added new document type mappings in Epic for MDM messages
Identified changes required for back-loading historical summary data
Ide [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for January 22

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0100

HIE ITS Departments Activation Discussion– Organized and participated in this call on Tuesday 1/10 to discuss the fact that we have multiple ITS Departments whose associated reports do not generate HL7 messages and therefore cannot be shared with any downstream systems including the HIE.
“PhysicianIntegration” e*Gate Schema Reorganization/Cleanup – Completed changes to the TEST and LIVE copies of this schema to eliminate old/obsolete components (from conversion) and [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for January 15

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0100

Meditech 5.65 Upgrade Project – Completed research of the Meditech Consumer/Supplier CCD interfaces specification documents and the HIE design/approach that they shared that provides their high level plan for utilizing the Meditech CCD interfaces for future iterations of the HIE project. Subsequently, sent a detailed email to the team that documented the output of that research and the options that the client can explore for short term testing of the CCD interfaces to meet [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for January 8

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0100

LAB Interface – Implemented for this interface all of the PID/PV1 rules that are now completed for the ADT interface in order to ensure that the rules are implemented the same for these common HL7 segments.
ITS Interfaces – Implemented for this interface all of the PID/PV1 rules that are now completed for the ADT interface in order to ensure that the rules are implemented the same for these common HL7 segments.
LAB Interface – Completed renaming of the spreadsheet and &l [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for January 1

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0100

Working with multiple practices, monitoring their Nexus interface engines, assisting in the installation of the INexx platform, or end user training.
For the Star to Medstreaming ADT/Orders Interface, loaded final copy of exam file to test.
Wrote and tested new script to update Meditech B/AR Procedure Dictionary
Continued to work on Claims file issue with Med Assets
For the NPR Trouble shooting: Researched empty PMS files, researched report request for Sleep Lab as well as co [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for December 25

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

With
Rhapsody, debugging FTP file log route for migration to Production
Debugged
SFTP Connection
Debugged
Db communication point Support Tracker
Updated
system documentation
Testing
URL results image links
Testing/Analyzing
historical Oacis Lab messages
Corrected
Epic Bridges errors
Created
a Rhapsody Route
to debug and identify Cerner lab Observation Id’s and Universal Service Id’s
Uploaded
historical sampling of General labs to Epic environm [...]

Healthcare Technical Services Projects for December 18

daniel@ninjoomla.com — Sun, 18 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.
For the Base Rhapsody interface platform, 4 additional routes created. “Database Insert”, “Site Specific Sort”, “To Maven”, “To PHS3”.
Database Insert- used for all DB writes i.e. Archive and HDOH Insert. This logic was moved from the base inbound route to separate functions and facilitate efficient us [...]

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 [...]