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The client is a world leader in medical devices withrevenue of over $20 billion

 

The Challenge

The customer was conducting a research project

involving implementation of four of its IPs in the

areas of ICU patient care. The objective was to

enable preventive care through proactive

monitoring of patient data. The solution collects

enormous amount of data and then the data is

analysed, interpreted and sent back to the display

system for timely patient alerts. 

The exchange of information was to happen in HL7

format through secured channels. The customer’schoice of integration engines was Rhapsody. It

being a research initiative, dynamic changes were

expected in the requirements which caused scope

creep and demanded meticulous management of

the complete initiative. Testing was a crucial phase

and required real-time situations to be replicated

before the project could be declared a success.

Facilitate collection of data received from a

array of medical devices in the ICU over

secured channel.

Development of UI and HL7 integrationfor mining data from multiple ICUMedical Devices

Solution Requirement

The Solution

Also, the collected data should be transform

into actionable information for ICU managers

help them take proactive measures for patie

care.

HealthAsyst was required to develop the displ

system using advanced Microsoft Technologies.

  For this purpose, generation of test data in t

absence of real medical devices was a challenge

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Benefits Delivered

The project was delivered on time and resultedsignificant dollar savings as all the operations we

offshored.

Owing to the aggressive delivery from HealthAsy

the customer’s time to market was for its offeri

was reduced by 2 months.

Impressed with the HealthAsyst  team

performance, the customer sought help fro

HealthAsyst for its Clinical decision support engi

and also leveraged HealthAsyst  team’s H

expertise to train and mentor their teams.

HealthAsyst with its rich experience is this field

resolved a highly complex problem of stresstesting that could have become an issue, with

ease.

Scarcity of resources knowledgeable to test an

interoperability solution such as this is in itself a

challenge. HealthAsyst team developed scripts

that generated mock HL7 data as if coming from

various devices under difference circumstances.

This huge volume of machine generated data

solved the problem of stress testing and helpedthe teams identify the break point of the interface.

 Approach

Involvement of HealthAsyst team saved the

client as much as about two months in ramp-up

time.

A comprehensive approach document was

prepared along with the high level designs.

For more information, please contact: marketing@healthasyst.com or visit www.healthasyst.com

HealthAsyst has been providing services and solutions to the global healthcare industry since 1999. It has a strong track record of successful services engagemen

across the Healthcare industry spectrum. We help our clients enhance the quality of Patient care, improve Patient safety and increase operational efficiency

The team from HealthAsyst suggested

innovative approach for testing and develop

tools and templates to simulate the da

transmission from numerous medical devices

replicate real-time operating conditions.

HealthAsyst also recommended improvements

the solution which were accepted a

incorporated immediately

Healthcare Interoperability and Integration is one

of the strengths of HealthAsyst team. ICU data

transmitted from the devices was captured and

processed by software algorithms to identify

peaks and troughs and presented for display inHL7 format. HealthAsyst team used Rhapsody

and interpreted HL7 data. HealthAsyst team

developed algorithms and business logic to

display this information with various filters

configurable by the user. This solution used

Microsoft Silverlight that provided a rich look and

a great user experience.