Connecting your analysers and devices to the patient record

A hospital is full of machines that produce data: lab analysers, diagnostic devices, instruments of all kinds. Each of them already knows its result the moment it finishes. Yet in many facilities, that result is read off the machine’s screen and typed, by hand, into the patient record. The machine produced the answer; a human re-keys it. This is slow, it ties up skilled staff in transcription, and it introduces errors, a digit transposed, a result entered against the wrong patient, every one of which is avoidable, because the machine already had the right answer. The keyboard between the device and the record is a bottleneck and a risk that does not need to exist.

Device and analyser interfacing is about connecting these machines directly to the patient record, so their data flows in without anyone typing it.

The cost of the keyboard in between

When devices are not connected to the record, the manual bridge costs the facility:

• Results are read off screens and typed in by hand, slowly.
• Transcription introduces errors, including results entered against the wrong patient.
• Skilled staff spend time keying data the machine already produced.
• The data the device produced is delayed and degraded on its way to the record.

The common cause is that the machine and the record are not connected, so a human keyboard bridges them, with all the slowness and error that involves.

Interfacing devices to the record

Veona Connect interfaces analysers and devices to the patient record, so their data flows in directly without manual typing. The result the machine produces reaches the shared record without a human re-keying it, removing the keyboard, and the errors that come with it, from between the device and the record. The data the machine produced arrives complete and accurate, against the right patient.

The machine already produced the right answer. Interfacing simply lets it speak to the record directly, instead of a human re-typing it into the wrong place.

Two-way for the lab

In the laboratory especially, interfacing is most powerful when it is two-way. As we cover in two-way analyser interfacing, the system can send the work list to the analyser and receive the result back, matched to the right specimen automatically. Veona Connect is the gateway that makes these device connections, so the lab’s analysers feed results straight to the record and the keyboard is removed from the most error-prone step in the lab.

Part of connecting what you already run

Device and analyser interfacing is one part of the broader job an integration gateway does: connecting what the hospital already runs to one record. The facility’s existing analysers and devices do not need to be replaced; they need to be connected. Veona Connect is where those connections are made and managed, so the data trapped in the hospital’s machines reaches the patient record where it belongs.

Data that flows from machine to record

The value of device and analyser interfacing is the data the hospital’s machines produce flowing directly to the patient record, without the keyboard in between. Results arrive faster, free of transcription errors, against the right patient, and skilled staff are freed from re-keying what the machine already knew. For a facility full of devices whose data is currently typed in by hand, connecting them directly is one of the most immediate gains in both speed and safety.

See your analysers and devices feed data straight to the patient record. Book a demo and we will connect a device with you.