Automatic Import of Patient Data, Including Medical Results, Diagnoses, and Administrative Data.
HL7 is a worldwide established standard for exchanging medical data between different software systems. The BD Cato™ HL7 interface uses this standard to easily connect BD Cato™ to the patient administration system, the laboratory system, or other IT systems in the hospital.
Patient information is directly imported into the BD Cato™ database and no manual entry is necessary. Both physician and pharmacist automatically have e.g. access to the latest medical results of the patient and can therefore utilize the BD Cato™ automated therapy monitoring features to full extent.
The BD Cato™ HL7 Engine runs as a server-side Windows service, receiving HL7 messages and importing the content into the BD Cato™ database. The sending system usually filters down to those patients intended for the BD Cato™ database, with the option of some additional filtering on the BD Cato™ side (e.g. by ward). If the sending system supports HL7 Query (”QRY”), an even more precise patient filter can be applied by searching for patients within the hospital system using BD Cato™ client and selectively import patients.
Currently the BD Cato™ HL7 interface is able to receive the following data using the corresponding HL7 standard:
- patient demographic data
- patient administration data
- admissions, transfers and discharges: administration of cases / visits / patient account information ("case assignment")
- patient location ("unit assignment")
- medical results of a patient
- diagnoses of a patient
- medication orders (only physician- or pharmacist-verified)
- preparation results of medications prepared externally by an automated compounding system ("robot")