Why Caristix

The Issue

In healthcare IT, interfacing is inevitable. No single information system can stand alone and provide the clinical, financial, and administrative infrastructure needed to deliver and support healthcare. Over the past twenty years, interfacing has emerged as the solution to connect disparate systems. Interfacing is now on the critical path of HIS, EMR, and EHR implementation projects, representing 20% to 40% of a project timeline.

But effective interfacing — the kind that provides clinical and workflow benefits to care providers and administrators alike — is expensive and time-consuming to set up.

Interface analysts and engineers must juggle out-of-date specifications, generic conformance profiles, multiple customer email threads, and sample HL7 message logs containing potentially confidential data, in order to develop effective interfaces. Because this process is so manually driven and error-prone, the result has been project delays, unpredictable cost overruns, and even project failure.

Why Act Now

A typical hospital system now manages upwards of 150 HL7 interfaces across a multitude of applications.

Every time one application changes, multiple interfaces are impacted. For both vendors and providers, manual interface implementation practices are facing a breaking point.

Why Work With Caristix

Caristix empowers HL7 engineers and analysts to scope automatically, test more thoroughly, deliver interfaces that require dramatically less adjustment during go-live, and troubleshoot more quickly during maintenance.

Caristix solutions are interface engine vendor-agnostic, enabling you to continue working with your existing architecture.

What’s more, Caristix software is designed for non-programmers, so even HL7 beginners can get up to speed quickly.

The result for healthcare vendors and providers alike is reduced process waste, faster project delivery, and reduced lifecycle cost.