Valley Medical Associates Is Happy With Their New HL7 Results Interface

     As one of the 600+ physician practices affiliated with Baystate Health System and Baystate Reference Lab (BRL), Valley Medical Associates (VMA) has recently gone live with their new Allscripts HealthMatics EMR platform (formally, A4) and with a new HL7 Lab results interface.  Accenx’s EMR Interoperability solution, RyTRAK HIE, implements a secure, encrypted connection between BRL and VMA for the purpose of transmitting HL7 results transactions to the VMA HealthMatics EMR.

     According to Dr. Helmuth, the new interface has saved time, resource, and money.  In addition, staff no longer has to pull patient charts and file lab results, since the new system replaces hardcopy patient folders.  The interface created by Accenx Technologies, Inc. has also been a tremendous impact on improving patient safety.  Accenx collaborated with BRL to perform a two year backload of data, sending over every lab result of every patient affiliated with VMA, for the purpose of allowing physicians to view historical trends in datagrams, so that they can catch conditions before they can be escalated.  The new interface eliminates human error, and allows for discrete data so that abnormal alert flags of values that are out of range are highlighted and shown in red. 

     Furthermore, the interface that Accenx has provided VMA, has allowed physicians easy access to the data in the format he/she wants to see it in.  According to Dr. Helmuth, the new system is easy to use, and is even easier to send patient lab results to other providers in the area.