Post on 27-Mar-2015
Workflow automation and interoperability – Diagnostic Devices
Heather ChildsEMR Program DirectorMidmark Diagnostics Group
2AAFP 2005
Midmark Diagnostics Group - Overview
• Incorporated in 1978 (Brentwood Medical Technology)• Providing devices that create test results which can be digitally
integrated into the electronic patient record.
• The leading provider of integrated diagnostic devices for today’s EMR – 80 EMR partners.
Award winning products• 2005 Competitive Strategy Leadership of the Year Award
- Frost & Sullivan Award Winner – 1999, 2005• MS-HUG Industry Solution Awards – 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005
• Pocket PC Magazine – Medical Editor’s Choice Award – 2004
• TETHIC Most Innovative Patient Care Winner – 2003
• TEPR Awards – 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004
3AAFP 2005
Diagnostic Devices – Workflow issues
• Problems with today’s diagnostic devices- Large equipment that takes up office and shelf space
• Workflow issues – Inconvenient for both the patient and the physician• Inefficient – Increases hardware and supply costs• Interoperability issues – Not a integrated solution
- Creates a paper based report• Uses extra staff time to file reports (or scan them into an EMR)• Expensive thermal paper that curls and fades (staff must either mount thermal
paper on special mounting cards or photocopy report to prevent fading)
- Lack of connectivity solutions• Reports are scanned into the EMR creating a static report.• Interface options limit information exchange and create a data gap.
4AAFP 2005
5AAFP 2005
Integration into the EMR
Bridging the gap…
Diagnostic Test Results
Electronic Health Record
Integration
6AAFP 2005
Diagnostic Devices – Workflow Solutions
7AAFP 2005
Diagnostic Devices – Interoperability Solutions
Interoperability Solutions - Integration• ActiveX Controls & .NET – Software tools for the EMR• Seamless data exchange – Becomes part of the EMR
- Allows electronic comparison among tests- Allows data mining from the EMR
Workflow solutions for various environments• Serial and/or USB port access• Thin Client and Fat Client solutions
• Wireless – Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc.
Bridging the Gap with IQmark devices
8AAFP 2005
“Systems are integrated only if they utilize a single underlying database, a common user interface and seamless navigation across all functionality. Anything less should be defined in terms of an interfaced system. Interfaces are developed to pass data from one application to another…Interfaces are not bad -- just limited.”
Integrated Systems Help Solve Health Care's Hottest ChallengesBy Brad Block
Integration vs. Interfaced
9AAFP 2005
IQmark Advantage – the integrated solution
Integrated vs. Interfaced
Active X Controls & .NET HL7
File saved in patient chart File is an attachment
Digital file: small Image file: large
Run one program Run multiple programs
Single database Multiple Databases
Integrated data Pass static numbers
Electronic comparison Manual comparison
Common user look and feel Multiple user interfaces
Fees from EMR only Fees EMR/Device Vendor
Upgrades from EMR only Upgrades EMR/Device Vendor
10AAFP 2005
Integrated Diagnostic Solutions
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Diagnostic test easily selected
from a pull down menu integrated
in the EMR.
Select the test desired and
simply click the Acquire Data
button.
12AAFP 2005
Live ECG screen displays enabling healthcare workers to monitor the quality of the waveform before acquiring the test.
13AAFP 2005
Once acquired, the ECG waveform and data are seamlessly integrated
into the EMR.
Review data by pressing the View Report
button.
14AAFP 2005
15AAFP 2005
Examples of another EMR integration of the IQmark products.
Simply click and view.
16AAFP 2005
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Data is seamlessly integrated into the patient’s
progress notes.
18AAFP 2005
19AAFP 2005
Data can be superimposed for detailed and precise comparison to previous
reports.
20AAFP 2005
Workflow automation and interoperability – Diagnostic Devices
Heather ChildsEMR Program DirectorMidmark Diagnostics Group