In our webinar last week as part of the HTN Learning Series, John Mitchell, Implementation Consultant with Lyniate explains how the integration platform Rhapsody and their partner Clinisys are helping with the COVID-19 pandemic by assisting with the large volume of pathology testing as a result of COVID-19.
To view a video recording of the webinar please click here.
John Mitchell explains the use of Rhapsody “It is an integration engine which can replace old fashioned, inefficient systems of message and data exchange. Rhapsody facilitates the translation and transformation of data while it is inflight.”
“Rhapsody can connect to a variety of different systems and databases using a variety of different protocols and standards. One example is The Hamed Medical Corporation who link Rhapsody to 50 of their systems and process over 21,000,000 messages per day.”
Darren Markham, Product Specialist outlined Clinisys and the work they are doing currently using the Rhapsody tool in support of their clients.
“The Clinisys Group has been around for over 30 years providing solutions for diagnostics workflow, order communications and information management solutions, including ordering, clinical decision support, collection, processing, analysis, results and reporting all through integrating into the wider clinical workflow.”
Support Examples
Here, Darren provides some examples of how the Clinisys Group is supporting its clients through the COVID-19 crisis.
“Across Europe we are supporting governments to increase COVID-19 related test numbers through working with partner organisations to create new central labs over-night. All this is being done in record time and we are now starting to see some of these laboratories come online this week.”
The company has implemented dashboard enhancements for COVID-19 specific lab metrics – this is to help the laboratories get a better picture of COVID-19.
Nightingale hospitals in London and Bristol are using Clinisys’s LIMS solutions; enhancing LIMS configurations to work with these new hospitals.
Lab to Lab Connectivity
Here, Darren talks about how Rhapsody is being used in lab to lab connectivity.
“The National Pathology Exchange Service is a service that has been around for quite a few years now but to date it has been optional sign-up for laboratories.”
“The intent of the service is to allow laboratories to connect together through a single exchange hub for test results to be sent digitally from lab to lab in a matter of seconds.”
NPEx provides a level of interoperability between labs and allows any vendors LIMS to connect with any other vendors LIMS to “exchange results and requests between the two LIMS.”
“This allows for capacity to be distributed across a number of sites; particularly useful in times of COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Requests are now completed in up to 14 hours, where previously it may have been 48 hours.”
Use of Rhapsody at Clinisys
Darren here talks about how Rhapsody is used at Clinisys and how Rhapsody is used in pathology solutions.
“We expose functionality through a series of API’s. Out of the box it gives us all the positives of an integration engine. We then deploy a series of communication points, routes, definitions onto every site which creates a touch point back.”
“We have a number of ADT feeds and a specific interface that allow us to create a more building block approach and repeatable configs – a more robust and resilient solution.”
“Rhapsody enables being able to stick to plug and play.”
“The ability to deploy the same code across all clients and use a repeatable installation process so there’s no having to “think on the fly” which risks “missing things out”.
“Also, Rhapsody enables reduced testing through the same code base being used which further provides confidence for the customer.”
“Using some of the features within Rhapsody we can abstract some of the config for each client.”
To view a video recording of the webinar please click here.
