It is a daunting task implementing a new EPR in a secondary care setting. In terms of integration, it essentially means a new TIE. The Trust Integration Engine revolves around the EPR in most common configurations. It is all about passing demographic information to the downstream systems in other departments.
At Lincoln, my task is to build the myriad of interfaces to downstream systems that require an ADT feed. While a single interface is simple, handling multiple interfaces, from design to deployment quickly becomes a significant task.
This task is not made easier, in that the specifications for the downstream systems are simply not detailed or even exist. We have to consider how the system will translate the data from an HL7 message.
It does appear that system testing, will be the most important stage of this project. When we will be configuring the interfaces according to how the downstream systems handle the data.
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