Accelero Connect® – Device integration made easy

Accelero ConnectWhat is Accelero Connect?

Accelero Connect® is a vendor, manufacturer and modality neutral integration platform from Accent on Integration® (AOI®) that is used to openly communicate clinical data between a multitude of healthcare systems and devices.

Accelero Connect is an FDA-registered Medical Device Data System (MDDS) that seamlessly integrates patient care devices with hospital EMRs and other clinical systems. Accelero Connect passed all tests at the 2012 IHE Connectathon in the Patient Care Device (PCD) Domain – Device Enterprise Communication (DEC) profile dealing with Device Observation Reporter (DOR) and Device Observation Consumer (DOC) actors.

Accelero Connect gives customers the confidence of having an enterprise-class device integration platform working for them to get patient care device data into their hospital EMR and other clinical systems. The flexibility and versatility of Accelero Connect makes it a meaningful solution that can address enterprise-level projects and complex integration problems, while still being versatile enough to handle simple connectivity and interface mapping.

By using AOI’s Accelero Connect interface, we are not only eliminating inefficient processes to improve patient care, workflow and patient safety, but we are also integrating disparate solutions to leverage our technology to its fullest potential. – Chris Roark, CIO at Stillwater Medical Center

Why Accelero Connect?

  • Successfully execute on the vital signs Meaningful Use objectives
  • Interconnect disparate technology systems and devices to improve patient care and safety
  • Implement cost-effective integration within a short timeframe in a straightforward manner
  • Eliminate the inefficient, time-consuming and error-prone processes of manual data entry
  • Automate data capture to streamline workflows, make it possible for clinicians to access information in real-time and enable more longitudinal patient records
  • Integrate disparate solutions to maximize the value of existing technologies without having to make a significant financial investment

This level of integration never seemed possible, but AOI brings a level of expertise and out-of-the-box thinking that is rare in healthcare. The AOI team recognized our specific needs and helped us develop a comprehensive plan to accomplish our integration goals. We very much value our relationship with AOI and look forward to the benefits of this and future advanced integration projects. - Becky Blevins, IS Manager at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center

Accelero Connect Features

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Implementation Examples

Physiologic and Vital Signs Monitors to EMR Integration

A recent HIMSS Analytics white paper reports that most of the hospitals studied use physiologic and vital signs monitors but the majority are not interfacing the devices with their EMRs, meaning that time-consuming and error-prone processes are still in place.

Accelero Connect® takes multiple and often disparate inbound ORU (result) message interfaces from physiological and/or vital signs monitors and creates a short-term repository of this data for downstream system integration initiatives (e.g. Nursing Documentation, EDIS, Quality Reporting initiatives, Patient Surveillance). Accelero Connect® can aggregate results data from multiple monitors and perform customer-configured matching algorithms before formatting the data and sending to the appropriate downstream systems. All of this is accomplished completely vendor agnostic.

Configurable HL7 Interface Engine

Accelero Connect® is a fast and affordable alternative to an enterprise interface engine for your organization. When used in this fashion, Accelero Connect® consumes a single HL7 feed from a source system (e.g. an ADT interface) and makes it available to multiple systems within the walls of your organization.

Accelero Connect® allows you to maximize your interface investment with your vendors without having to purchase expensive duplicative interfaces. Not all downstream systems can accept data in the same format, but Accelero Connect® is designed to accommodate multiple message specification requirements via a built-in configuration management tool.

HL7 CDA Mapping, HL7 to CCD Conversion & CCD Document Creation

Today, numerous healthcare organizations are connecting their systems with those of their community physicians, and many ambulatory EMR systems are standardizing on the Continuity of Care Document (CCD) for clinical document exchange. The CCD is part of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) intended to specify the coding, structure and semantics of clinical documents for exchange. While several physician EMR systems can consume CCD documents, most hospital-based information technology systems are not equipped to create or consume CCD documents.

Accelero Connect® can consume a CCD as an input and then output multiple HL7 messages, or conversely it can receive multiple HL7 messages and create a CCD document to meet the needs of the sending and receiving systems.

HL7 Feed Aggregator

There are many times when the ideal solution to a healthcare data integration problem would require connecting multiple HL7 data sources into one vendor’s HL7-enabled application, but that vendor has a licensing model that requires additional costs per inbound HL7 feed. This common scenario can quickly increase the cost for what is a technically simple requirement.

The traditional solution in healthcare IT has been to leverage the organization’s investment in integration engine technology to address such scenarios; however, the interface licensing costs can also quickly turn a simple project into a cost-prohibitive problem.

HL7 Message to Document Imaging System Gateway

Accelero Connect® is an affordable way to capture healthcare data information that is transacted via HL7 messaging and share it with document imaging systems. Accelero Connect® takes inbound HL7 messages and converts them to report formats such as rich text, PDF, PDF/H (PDF-Healthcare) or plain text, and sends them to document imaging systems over defined capture ports.

Server-to-Server Messaging Gateway

In today’s healthcare IT environment, integration of multiple HL7-enabled hardware and software solutions is very common. Unfortunately, there often are instances where both ends of the communication channel are implemented as TCP/IP servers, and the organization’s interface engine cannot adequately or reliably handle the configuration.

Accelero Connect® solves this problem by providing a reliable and scalable solution for HL7 messaging between data sources configured as TCP/IP servers. This server-to-server messaging gateway solution works well when HL7 messages originating in a system acting as a server need to be delivered to nursing documentation systems, document imaging systems or print locations (after being converted into a printer-friendly format).

Configuring Accelero Connect® as an HL7 Feed Aggregator is a cost-effective solution to the common requirement of aggregating multiple HL7 feeds into a single feed.