Healthcare Software Providers

Healthcare software providers and medical device manufacturers face a similar challenge - how to deliver and receive clinical information from other applications in the healthcare ecosystem. In today's "wired" world of healthcare, exponential value can be realized from standalone applications and medical devices by having the application or device effectively connected into the healthcare information technology (HIT) environment.

Meeting the demands of today's integrated environment simply means healthcare applications and devices must effectively interface using the HL7 standard to exchange clinical data. HL7 is a powerful standard; however, its flexibility and different versions often extend a development team beyond their core expertise and product focus.

Rapid advances in technology, limited technical resources, and escalating competition also dictate a disciplined focus on core product features for application and device developers. Developing an HL7 system to support an interconnected clinical environment often proves too distracting to the development efforts and too costly to implement and support.

Building your own HL7 interfaces is similar to building any other complex application and often translates into the following experiences:

  • Rising implementation costs of the vendor's application or device in trying to meet the differing adoption of HL7 in various healthcare organizations
  • Increased support costs to adapt the core application or device to the different HL7 implementations and changes within various healthcare organizations
  • Stretched engineering resources to balance core product development with HL7 interfacing requirements
  • Missed installation deadlines due to last minute interface requirement "discoveries"

NeoTool works with healthcare software providers and medical device manufacturers to productively solve healthcare interfacing requirements with affordable products and services.

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