Intelligent Integration of Healthcare Systems
Healthcare Interoperability Platform
Technology and ease of system connections
There is a growing demand for managing information in hospital environments from different data sources, a factor that makes communication in a unified manner difficult, increases the load on systems and generates incompatibility between information.
To improve information processing and interoperability, healthcare organizations need to ensure that relevant data is available and synchronized across all systems within the hospital or across a network of hospitals.
Bridgecare is a platform capable of integrating information from several different systems into a single central repository and sharing it in various formats and existing protocols, bridging multiple technologies.
The platform also offers important services in information management, such as: Database Sanitization, Unified Login Service, Terminology, IOT for infrastructure, clinical engineering and equipment, among others.
Benefits of Bridgecare
The variety of systems and equipment existing in hospitals and the consequent need for interoperability make point-to-point connection in care and organizational environments impossible. Furthermore, the volume of information, diversity of protocols and format of communications make management by the hospital's IT team unfeasible.
The problem becomes worse when the healthcare organization has several points and decentralized service bases resulting in multiple registrations and lost information.
The Bridgecare platform offers services that address these problems faced by healthcare organizations in a simple and robust way, optimized for IT processes, improving the quality of the organization's information.
Bridgecare acts as a central repository of all information with support for various communication protocols and the ability to translate messages from the main formats into standards used by the industry. Furthermore, the platform integrates equipment, measurements and sensors providing visibility and integrated management for clinical engineering for hospital maintenance and management.
Proven Reliability
Bridgecare ® interoperates with more than 70 systems on the market and is present in more than 700 locations in Brazil. there are hundreds of thousands of pieces of information processed and sanitized per hour. Furthermore, Bridgecare ® already has the largest patient database in Latin America and one of the largest in the world in just one system.
These indicators as well as an availability of 99.9999% demonstrate the robustness and reliability of the platform.
Millions of Patients
Millions of Services
Millions of Exam Results
Millions of Dispensations
Millions of Pregnancy and Prenatal Exams
Supported Data Formats
- Web Services (Restful/SOAP)
- TCP/IP
- Database (JDBC)
- JAVA
- File (FTP/Local)
- HTTP Client
- MQTT
- STOMP
- ActiveMQ
- Rabbit MQ
- Amazon MQ
Supported Clinical Documents
- XML
- HTML
- Binary
- DICOM
- IHE
- MDH
Supported Protocols
- HL7 (V2 & V3)
- FHIR
- JSON
- XML
- FRL (Fixed Record Length)
- VRL (Variable Record Length)
- CSC
Functionalities
Bridgecare goes beyond Interoperability in Healthcare. The platform was designed to add Intelligence and proactivity in solving problems anticipated by notifications
HIS/LIS/PACS integration
All electronic medical records, as well as information from laboratory and imaging tests, are connected to the central repository in a sanitized way.
Integrations with Other Systems
The platform has integration with more than 70 health systems, including Telemedicine and Tele-triage, and electronic medical records, allowing the optimization of care in a single information environment.
Single Sign-On Service
Bridgecare offers an encrypted security service for single sign-on and user management, simplifying and reducing the cost of managing users across multiple systems with different levels of security. In this way, all employees of the institution receive a unique username and password to identify them regardless of the type of access or system used.
Equipment Location and Configuration
Bridgecare offers the Telemetry service with automatic configuration of the equipment associated with the bed without the need for reconfiguration each time the device is moved internally in the hospital. The system also automatically reports the location to clinical engineering, facilitating the management and technical assistance of these items.
Interoperability with Equipment
Bridgecare offers native integration with any medical device using modern transmission protocols like HL7 or even legacy text formats. Through proprietary technology, equipment locations are automatic. All information is transmitted to the central repository for consumption by the institution's other systems.
Telemedicine
The platform has integration with several other systems, including Telemedicine and MedKortex® Tele-triage, allowing the maximization of care in a single information environment regardless of the number of units or geographic distribution of the network.
COGNILINK Smart Terminology
Bridgecare offers a customizable and parameterizable Intelligent Terminology Service, with versioning of all technical terms used in applications, in accordance with the data quality control indicated by the institution.
IIOT Monitoring and Infrastructure
The Bridge family has a tradition in the Industrial Internet of Things and incorporates the monitoring of equipment, infrastructure or quality process parameters of the institution into Bridgecare . Intelligent automatic monitoring of water quality, reservoir levels, tank pressures, cylinder loads, medical IT, asset location are just some of the automatic measurements that the system performs to increase the safety and efficiency of the operation. Based on programmed alarms and operating rules, Bridgecare alerts in real time to problems with any equipment vital to the hospital's operation and safety.
Database Sanitization
The platform monitors the database against duplicate records, homonyms and information conflicts in a customized way. Through system configuration, the administrator can select intelligent rules so that the hygiene service indicates alarms and points of attention for analysis and actions on the portal.
Integration Quality Index
Bidgecare constantly monitors the integration quality of legacy systems and indicates the IQ (integration quality) of each system on intuitive dashboards. The platform also notifies the administrator in case of unexpected changes in the integration behavior. This way, the manager can directly address the institution's manager about the quality of sending data for the good of the repository.
IoT Clinical Engineering
Bridgecare interoperability and experience in industrial IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) applications with Bridgemeter , Above-Net offers an integrated instrumentation, monitoring and communication solution with infrastructure equipment capable of monitoring and alerting clinical engineering about changes of critical parameter readings for operation.
Bridgecare predictively identifies the degradation of readings of any equipment for preventive action based on operating condition, avoiding unnecessary expenses for replacing parts in good condition or the risk of downtime due to lack of maintenance Bridgecare
Some Bridgecare IoT Monitoring Applications
- Cold chamber
- Medicinal Gas Networks
- Medical IT
- Equipment Location and Tracking
- Cylinder Battery (Backup reserve)
- Power management
- Water Consumption Management
- Generators Group
- Medical Air Plants
- Refrigeration Systems
Maintenance Workflows
Predictive rules and alarms can trigger maintenance workflows for portable equipment with a dynamic checklist of actions and maintenance to be carried out by the responsible team. According to the response collected on these devices, the system dynamically indicates the next steps to correct the problem according to the workflow defined by the institution.
Architecture
Bridgecare has a modular architecture capable of meeting growing integration demands according to the maturity of each client. Through available modules and connectors, the system can be configured for any type of solution.
Each connector is responsible for receiving, transmitting and transforming information from its original format to the repository or vice versa using Web Services (Restful/SOAP), TCP/IP, FTP among others. The basic package includes the central repository with management system in Web Interface and three main connectors dedicated to connecting HIS (Hospital Information System), LIS (Laboratory Information System) and PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) configured according to the set minimum data desired.
The Single Sign-on security module offers a central form of single user authentication via OAuth2 for all integrated systems and platforms with full profile configuration to authenticate application permissions in real time.
Another important module is the terminology service used to standardize terms for integrated applications and defined by the platform management team.
The next module is intended for connecting equipment, being able to capture, transmit and store information in HL7 or through proprietary protocols of patient equipment measurements, making them available in the central repository for consumption by other systems.
Through this same connector, the platform is capable of locating the equipment whether by wired or wireless connection, informing clinical engineering about its movement and automatic association with hospital beds.
The module also offers connection to sensors, control centers and measuring equipment and is capable of capturing parameters of gas systems, fire systems, water quality, alerting against leaks, undue pressure values, allowing the repository to be fed with information that is fundamental to the supply logistics and for the maintenance team with predictive analysis of the failure of various equipment and systems.
Bridgecare also offers, in all its configurations, a notification system (Dashboard and Email) capable of alerting in real time about the services and conditions of all monitoring carried out. Notifications use real-time messaging systems such as STOMP, Active MQ, Rabbit MQ and Amazon MQ. Connectors for integration with Telemedicine and Clinical Decision Support systems are also available and can be added to any package. All information and logs are stored in a scalable AWS structure database or on-premises locally according to each client's needs.
Each connector is responsible for receiving, transmitting and transforming information from its original format to the repository or vice versa using Web Services (Restful/SOAP), TCP/IP, FTP among others. The basic package includes the central repository with management system in Web Interface and three main connectors dedicated to connecting HIS (Hospital Information System), LIS (Laboratory Information System) and PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) configured according to the set minimum data desired.
Other features
Whether hosted on AWS Web or on-premises, Bridgecare offers a flexible and scalable node cluster-based infrastructure.
Available for connections with SSL/TLS encryption whether for sending or receiving information, and can be configured for integrations using TCP/IP, FTP and HTTP protocols.
All communication used by Bridgecare supports AES256 or higher communication when possible.
The authentication service is compatible with the strictest levels of security, and allows configuration per profile through individual selection of actions and reading and writing permissions in different areas. Through this feature, you can configure infinite levels of authority for different team members with the same security shared by the Single Sign On service with OAuth2 authentication in a centralized manner.
Bridgecare offers a series of native connectors capable of translating messages by mathematical, logical, interactive calculations or two-way translation tables. Therefore, whatever the application's data format, Bridgecare receives and transmits the information, translating it into the repository standard in a secure and reliable way.
Redundant system and equipment can guarantee high availability for installations of any size, whether on-premises or in the cloud through this optional service.
The system has connection options through Web Services via Restful or SOAP.
This functionality allows the capture of information using any communication protocol, whatever the density or type of parameter, allowing the total optimization of information in a structured way. Clinical engineering can have instant access to critical data for hospital operations and anticipate critical operational problems.
All information on operations carried out on Bridgecare is recorded and updated with encryption and is available for historical searches using keywords or search selection criteria in the platform's management environment.
The platform offers multiple clinical document storage standards, such as but not limited to XML, HTML, Binary, DICOM, PDF, IHE Profile and Mobile Access to Health documents (MDH).
Benefits
Centralized Information
The Bridgecare repository offers the most complete database of patient record data across all integrated systems.
IT Call Reduction
Bridgecare reduces the number of calls through intelligent single sign-on services.
Unified Repository
Allows centralized access for audits and medical records studies in a unified and structured way for the sanitized patient base.
Connection to Equipment
Bridgemeter IoT has low operational and deployment costs and can be installed at hundreds of points providing access to your company's customers.
Contact
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