The HSE launched the National Integrated Imaging System in Ireland in 2010 to provide all hospitals in Ireland with access to patient information and medical images. One of the key requirements for each hospital is to transfer patient information in Health Level Seven (HL7) format to NIMIS. For some hospitals this will a challenging problem due to absence of an Integration product or Patient Administration System (PAS) that supports HL7.

Grapevine has developed a unique solution for transferring patient information in HL7 format to NIMIS.

Our solution currently supports the key patient events outlined below:

• Registering, Admitting, Transferring and Discharging a patient.
• Outpatient Visits and Outcomes
• A&E Visits and Outcomes
• Merging patient records

At the core of our solution is Intersystems Ensemble product which supports multiple HL7 standards as well as different technologies for connecting applications. We can customise our solution to connect any type of PAS or database technology including: DSM/MUMPS, SQL Server, Oracle and Caché.

Read the NIMIS HL7 Integration solution brochure (pdf).

Health Level Seven (HL7) provides standards for interoperability that improve care delivery, optimizes workflow, reduce ambiguity and enhance knowledge transfer among different stakeholders, including healthcare providers, government agencies and software providers. The HL7 standard is managed by the HL7 International organization. See www.hl7.org for details.

The HL7 message protocol standard allows various health-care systems to communicate with each other using an industry standard message structures. HL7 is currently the selected standard for the interfacing of clinical data between software systems in most healthcare providers.

Intersystems’ Ensemble integration product is one of the leading HL7 interface engine’s used by the healthcare industry. The Ensemble HL7 interface engine enables your applications to communicate with incompatible systems. See www.intersystems.com/hl7/ for more information s on Ensemble’s HL7 capabilities.

Grapevine Solutions is an Ensemble Integration Partner and provides a full range of HL7 solutions and services. If you need to integrate your PAS, PACS, RIS or any other system, Grapevine can build the required HL7 interface using the tools and utilities available in Ensemble.

Read the Ensemble - HL7 Messaging brochure (pdf).

RoboDJ, Grapevine's data replication product is used to replicate Patient Information to multiple Caché databases.

RoboDJ ™ provides the following features and benefits:

• Configures both source and target database systems.
• Replicates DSM data to multiple Caché databases on different servers.
• Assists in platform migration and data migration from MUMPS to Caché.
• Provides a powerful back-up to legacy systems.
• Legacy data can be mapped to relational views enabling SQL query access.
• Enables other systems to access legacy information using ODBC or Web Services.

Read RoboDJ brochure (pdf).

PMI Inquiry can be used to access Patient Demographic Information or Episode History details from legacy DSM or Caché based Patient Administration Systems.

PMI Inquiry can be customised to meet most client requirements.

Key Features

PMI Inquiry Search Options include the following demographic fields:

• Medical Record Number
• Surname
• Forename
• Sex
• Address
• Date of Birth
• Age (plus or minus ranges)

PMI Inquiry can be installed on any Windows platform.
PMI Inquiry can be connected to any MUMPS, Caché or SQL Server database system.

Read PMI Inquiry brochure (pdf).