OpenEMR Integration with Insurance System

OpenEMR Development
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fatimah-al-naji wrote on Tuesday, August 23, 2016:

Greetings,

I have to integrate the OpenEMR with insurance company system.
There are some data will be exported from my EMR system and imported to their system.

What is the best way to do that integration? Note: I am new in integration field

I search about MirthConnect tool which is based on InterfaceEngine concept, is it helpful for my case?

Thanks in Advance,
Fatimah

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visolveemr wrote on Tuesday, August 23, 2016:

Hello Fatimah,

Greetings from ViSolve…!

MirthConnect tool can be used to integrate between two Healthcare Information Systems.

In your case, MirthConnect tool should be a good option for integrating with insurance system as it supports X12 format.

More over this depends upon type of data and data format you choose.

Thanks
OpenEMR Customization/Support Team,
ViSolve Inc

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juggernautsei wrote on Tuesday, August 23, 2016:

What you have to find out is what standards to does the insurance company use to communicate with platforms outside of theirs.
That is going to govern what you build.

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fatimah-al-naji wrote on Thursday, August 25, 2016:

Thank you ViSolve.

Please forgive these basic questions as I am just learning about all this stuff.

Can you explain to me the idea of how the message will be export from my system and import to the suitable place at X System? how the idea will work “Not Tecchnically”)

As what I understood after going through MirthConnect tool, the general process in my case will be as follow :

  • My OpenEMR is the source
  • X System is the destination
  • A message from my system will be export contains (database name, table name, field name, data type …)
  • It will be filter at the destination side and the values will import to the suitable field in their database.

am I right?

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fatimah-al-naji wrote on Thursday, August 25, 2016:

Thank you Sherwin Gaddis.

You mean I have to find out what is their databse, server …etc ?

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visolveemr wrote on Thursday, August 25, 2016:

Hi Fatimah,
I think you got it wrong and here is the explanation.

As Sherwin said, you need to find out what standard data and type the insurance company expects from your EMR side.
For example, lets consider you need to send x12 (standard type) message to insurance company.

Once identified that the format is X12, you need to build x12 message from you openemr (from database) and send to insurance company through their preferred data transfer commnuication mode(like TCP,SFTP,HTTP)

MirthConnect tool will be used while building the x12 message and transferring the same to insurance company

Hope this helps.

Thanks
OpenEMR Customization/Support Team,
ViSolve Inc

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fatimah-al-naji wrote on Thursday, August 25, 2016:

Okeeey I see !!

I visited this link http://timreview.ca/article/205 according to your helpful explination and it becomes more clear for me.

Thanks aging, I will be back if I become confused with MirthConnect stuff.
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