As health care systems strive to streamline their processes and comply with new regulations, it is becoming more and more imperative to have the ability to integrate results from testing done outside the clinical laboratory to the LIS/EMR.
QML was developed using Microsoft Visual Studio and .NET technology. Though comprised of the following major components, it is a completely integrated solution with a single user interface. It was specifically designed and developed as a component-based system, allowing us to make and validate changes to any individual component and release that component without requiring a QA cycle of the complete system.
- The database is Sybase® SQL Anywhere Studio Version 11, which stores all result information received from devices, ADT and Order information received from the LIS/EMR system, and configurations entered by the point of care management staff through the user interface.
- ADT and Order Interface(s) allow QML to use data received from the LIS/EMR for validating sample information entered on the device, in response to requests for a specific patient’s information made primarily by blood gas device types and to send real-time ADT messages to device types for creation of patient lists on their devices.
- Result Interface(s), with multiple components designed to prepare and send results to one or more ports simultaneously. These could be to multiple production systems or a combination of production and test systems. Though the majority of our customers use QML to send unsolicited results (those without an order in the LIS/EMR), some of our customers are now also using QML to process point of care results utilizing a more traditional laboratory process where QML will send solicited results (those with an existing order in the LIS/EMR). Both types of results can be managed simultaneously in QML and sent to the LIS/EMR either through a single interface to the LIS/EMR or multiple depending on the ability of the receiving system to receive both result types on the same interface.
- Device Driver(s) and Import include unique components for processing files received from the device type, a component for importing into QML and processing exceptions. Our device-type drivers do three main things: talk to a vendor’s proprietary software or device directly, remap the data into a common TELCOR import format, and return the data to the vendor’s proprietary software or devices, if they are capable of receiving electronic data.
- The QML Portal (aka Client/User Interface) is the component that gives the point of care coordinator(s) and others as required, access to all of the functionality for configuring the system, managing result exceptions, managing operators, running reports, performing troubleshooting, etc. Multiple simultaneous access points are provided via physical clients installed on individual PCs, via Citrix or the Web.
- WebMRE, though an independent component, is very much like a device driver but specifically designed for importing manual results (patient and liquid QC) entered via the WebMRE Web page. It is a vital component for any point of care program allowing for management of manual testing, charting of results, sending those results through the existing LIS/EMR interface and management of operators performing manual testing. It allows for creation of unlimited panels and tests, which can be assigned to an unlimited number of operators.
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