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Electronic Transfer of Investigations - Technical Guide

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  Use the Manage Communications utility to configure how Investigation Results are imported to Clinical.
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  - Electronic Transfer of Investigations - Technical Guide
    - Transferring Data to the Customer
    - Running Your Download Program
    - File Formats
      Clinical supports Investigations Results transferred in HL7 and PIT file formats
    - Importing the Result Files into MedicalDirector Clinical
    - File Naming Conventions
    - Adding/Registering File Types
    - Managing Investigations Results Using MedicalDirector Clinical
    - Notes About Electronic Transfer of Investigations
    - File Formats for Data Transfer
      This section details the use and specifications of the various proprietary file formats used for linking, importing, exporting and the general transfer of data between Clinical and other programs or modules.
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  This information applies to MedicalDirector Clinical 4.3.

Electronic Transfer of Investigations - Technical Guide

This guide is intended to provide detailed information for laboratories wanting to implement direct transfer of results to their customers. It may also be of interest to Clinical users wishing to gain an 'in-depth' understanding of the systems involved.

Clinical can be used to import and manage Radiology and Pathology (investigations) results. Clinical can also automate the running of third-party communications packages (often supplied by the Lab) which have been configured to dial-in and transfer the investigation results from the Lab to the client's computer. This means that it is quite possible to configure the system in such a way that a single click or keystroke will dial-in, log-on, transfer, decrypt and import results for multiple laboratories.

Following is a list of the fundamental steps required to achieve this, including pre-requisites and setup detail.

There are two basic processes:

Transferring the batch files from the Lab's computer to the customer's computer.
Importing the actual result files into Clinical's holding file.