HL7 Integration

Our experts design and implement bidirectional HL7 interfaces allowing you to:

• Exchange patient records across EMRs / EHRs, portals, labs, pharmacies, and more
• Centralize essential billing and revenue cycle data from across platforms
• Embed real-time decision support alerts into clinical and financial systems
• Accelerate access to clean, structured data for analytics initiatives
• Future-proof interfaces as needs evolve while maintaining security and HIPAA compliance

We serve healthcare systems of all sizes and specialties. This guide explains our HL7 interface offerings and how they can transform your workflows.

Common pain points include:

• Clinical teams lacking real-time access to patient and order data captured elsewhere
• Revenue cycle staff reconciling claims data from various sources manually
• Duplicative data entry and transcription due to integration limitations
• Reporting complexity without central structured data repository
• Difficulty extracting data from siloed systems for quality analytics
• Alert fatiguing from one-way system notifications lacking context

This interface bottleneck obstructs efforts to optimize workflows, analytics and decision automation vital for modern healthcare.

Purpose-built HL7 interfaces are the solution, structuring data exchange to connect technologies and departments.

Our end-to-end interface development process ensures your connections are designed for accuracy, flexibility and longevity:

1. Current State Analysis: We study your existing systems, data flow gaps and needs to identify interface opportunities with the biggest impact.
2. Requirements Gathering: Through stakeholder discussions, we detail specifications aligned to use cases, covering transaction types, data fields, handling of exceptions, latency demands, security protocols and more.
3. Design and Development: Our HL7 specialists apply healthcare domain experience to build interfaces leveraging the optimal methods and tools to meet defined requirements.
4. Testing and Validation: We thoroughly test interfaces across multiple conditions in development and staging environments to validate functionality before controlled production implementation.
5. Deployment and Maintenance: After go-live, we provide support services including performance monitoring, proactive enhancements, error resolution, retesting for system upgrades and more to ensure enduring operability.

This methodology results in tightly integrated systems potentiating fast access to mission-critical data.

While each interface serves unique needs, examples include:

• Linking practice management and EMRs /EHRs to share scheduling, registration, coding, billing and collections data
• Transmitting medication lists and eRx between EMR / EHR, pharmacy and e-prescribing hubs
• Pushing encounters, orders and results to patient portals and health information exchanges
• Importing payer coverage eligibility to populate EMR / EHR encounter screens
• Centralizing patient records across affiliated hospitals into a enterprise data repository
• Embedding clinical decision support prompts inside EMR / EHR workflows
• Connecting implant registries to EMR / EHR documentation for automated data capture
• Automating supply reordering by linking inventory management and billing systems

We build interfaces tailored to your goals, be it clinical alerting, revenue cycle consolidation, or portals.

Don’t just take our word — see examples of how customers leveraged our interface services:

• Regional Health System: Interfaced 40+ outpatient clinics with centralized billing hub, increasing clean claims submissions by 52%
• Specialty Hospital: Created ADT registration interface cutting duplicate patient data entry by 75%
• Multi-Location Dental Group: Linked dental imaging systems to practice management software to attach radiology scans into patient financial records with one click
• Home Health Agency: Embedded prompts for nurses into EMR based on vital device data, driving 23% faster intervention for at-risk patients

Our case studies showcase how interfaces yield measurable gains around revenue, productivity, access and decision making.

Benefits over legacy HL7 versions include:

• Increased speed and flexibility
• Enhanced interoperability between modern systems
• Reduced complexity for developers to implement
• Tighter data schemas and terminology bindings
• Scalability across platforms ranging from iOS to EMRs / EHRs
• Continuous expandability as new FHIR resources emerge

That’s why we build support for FHIR APIs into our interfaces to supplement traditional V2 messaging. This future-proofs integration capabilities as healthcare transitions toward FHIR while still supporting legacy systems via V2 as needed. Clients gain adaptable interfaces reducing rework as requirements evolve.

With over a decade serving healthcare interfaces needs, Medwave delivers:

• Hands-on engagement from start to finish by senior architects intimately familiar with industry challenges
• Partnerships combining IT proficiency with revenue cycle insights to maximize value
• Enduring interfaces future-proofed for evolving technologies and protocols like FHIR APIs
• Methodical project management exemplifying transparency and accountability
• Proactive enhancements based on the latest interface best practices