HL7 Lab Interface

Integration of Sentara Lab and OpenEMR

Objective

• Aims to implement an interface to connect the Sentara Lab and the OpenEMR.

• The patient’s lab results will be sent in the format of HL7 to the OpenEMRs which are hosted in a cloud environment.

• There will be many OpenEMRs for different Physicians and each physicians will be receiving the lab results.

Implementation• The lab interface is implemented using the Mirth

Connect.• The physician details will be sent through the

facility field in the MSH segment. The corresponding OpenEMR will be identified from the Facility field.

• The patient id will be taken from the MSH segment, and the correspoding Patient id will be retrieved from the OpenEMR database.

• The insert and update of the lab results be taken care.

Implementation (…)

• The necessary tables are added in the OpenEMR database.

• Also, there is a new report page has been created in the OpenEMR to display the lab results.

• Secured tunnel was established using stunnel to support the HIPPA compliance. So the message communication is always secured from the external sources.

• More details cant be shared here. I can explain you if you are interested.