NeoTool aids system integration with software

NeoTool offered HIMSS07 visitors insight into its tools that aid facilities looking to bolster clinical communication between various health IT systems. The company works with new XLM standards related to the EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standards (ELINCS) project.

NeoTool’s software, called NeoIntegrate, offers data templates in XML format that functions with standards CCR (Continuity of Care Record), CDA (Clinical Document Architecture), and all versions of HL7. NeoIntegrate helps users by saving them from having to develop their own system interfaces, and facilitates the complete integration cycle, including effective testing and implementation and then intelligent monitoring of the deployed interfaces.

Another product, NeoBrowse, is designed to enable customers to easily parse, read, test, and validate any HL7 message communicated to or from any healthcare system or integration engine platform, NeoTool said.

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