Lab interfaces

sankar1234 wrote on Tuesday, December 13, 2005:

Some EMR vendors connect to labs such as Quest and Labcorp or something.  The interface is sometime paid by the labs, not EMR vendors.  But EMR vendors charge the labs some $5000.00.

Any ideas on it works, including interfaces such as HL7 or some other protocols.?

-Sankar

andres_paglayan wrote on Tuesday, December 13, 2005:

I have something half backed that will connect to tricore labs.
the workflow is like this,
they put an HL7 file with the results on an internal FTP server,
OEMR access first the intranet via vpn, then the ftp server and downloads the file,
the file is hl7, but they all have their own flavors, so they gave me their implementation,
there is a hl7 pear class wich should do the bulk of parsing.
for other labs the hl7 may vary, as well as the connection mechanism,