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Article: Getting Devices to Talk to EHRs; Sherman Hospital uses interfacing shortcuts to send data from medical devices directly into the electronic record.(Hospitals)
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- Health Data Management
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Byline: Joseph Goedert
Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Ill., wanted to integrate patient monitoring devices with its electronic health records system. However, it quickly determined that the enabling data transfer technology from its EHR vendor was not up to the task. To compound the issue, Sherman's primary medical device vendor said some older devices could not even be integrated with the EHR and suggested buying new ones at a substantial cost.
Instead, the 240-bed hospital turned to Andover, Mass.-based Capsule Technologie, a vendor that has built an interface library for more than 415 medical devices. Capsule's bedside medical device interfaces rely on ...