With experience developing over 400 interfaces our expertise is unparalleled and extends past basic ASTM and HL7 to all types of healthcare interfaces including the LIS, HIS, EMR, IVDs, POCT devices, and more. Interfacing is our specialty.

Training

Introduction to Interfacing – ASTM, HL7 or POCT-1a

Do you have a team that is new to the basics of device interfacing? Our training can be tailored to meet your needs we offer 1-3 day courses that can help your team get a jump start on developing a new protocol. Sample modules include:

History of the Protocol
Basic Message Structure
Best Practices and Common Pitfalls
Components of a good specification
Basic Interface Development Requirements

Each training module includes one of the standard protocols, or customize the training to meet your organizational needs:

- ASTM (LIS1, LIS2)
- HL7, IHE
- POCT-1A

Interface Consulting

Do you have a medical device or product that needs to connect with other systems? We can help you develop a set of requirements for your developers to write the interface and outline the required documentation for submission to LIS, EMR, and other middleware vendors.

This project typically starts with a review of all of the existing user manuals, designs, and other project artifacts. We review them and determine any gaps that may cause issues interfacing later in the product lifecycle.

The output is two-fold. First, you get a full set of scenarios to build test cases for your product. Second, you get a comprehensive review of your documentation with suggests edits and gaps.

Interface Implementations

Do you have a new instrument or LIS coming online that needs to be interfaced? We can help you get the systems connected. We can develop a set of requirements for your validation of the communication. With our rich experience with instrument, LIS, EMR, and other middleware vendors, we can take weeks or months of your deployment schedule.

This project typically starts with a review of all of the existing user manuals, communication specifications, project plans, and other project artifacts. We review them and determine any gaps that may cause issues interfacing or scheduling issues in the product lifecycle.

Interface Specification Development

We have extensive experience developing the interface specification for LIS, EMR, and IVD products. Through this engagement, your team will gain valuable time back to your development schedule all the time knowing that interface specification will be done professionally and correctly. Most customers choose to an ASTM or HL7 specification for their output, but that is not the only option. REST and Web APIs are becoming more and more popular. We also have worked with a number of POCT-1a interfaces.

3rd Party Software Development

Continuing through the product lifecycle, we also offer coding services. We have knowledge in a variety of programming languages and can take on the development of the desired product. We can work within your Quality system, or we can help you develop one.

Interface Development
Test Tool Development
Custom Development activities

Verification, Validation, and Testing

We have found that many organizations wish to keep the development in-house. However, they are very open to extra support when it comes to testing. We offer a number of services.

Writing test plans and scenarios based on existing requirements, technical documentation, user manuals, etc.
Creating ad-hoc tests that are unscripted to find deviations
Executing test plans remotely, or on-site
Reviewing existing test procedures and offering areas for improvement