Alphabet Soup
HL7 stands for this.
What is Health Level 7?
Where would you find information about available preview or clienttrain environments?
The athenaOne Environments Management Monday board
To successfully map clinical results to the correct ordering clinician in athenaNet, the inbound HL7 message usually contains this standard 10-digit national provider identifier.
What is an NPI number?
A new Care Center is asking about setting up an interface with a vendor you are unfamiliar with, what is the first step?
What is Reach out to Jill to see if a Global Interface already exists?
In HL7, this character (|) is used as the default delimiter to separate individual fields within a segment.
What is a Pipe (or Vertical Bar)?
You want to send out Patient Demographics - what kind of interface should you be requesting?
What is an ADT?
Before an interface goes live in Production, athenahealth developers load, build, and test it in this practice-specific testing environment.
What is the Preview environment?
Quest, LabCorp, and other Enrollment Labs have their mappings created here.
What is the NPI and Other Numbers table?
If a Care Center is requesting a net new interface, you would reach out to this person to have them submit the request via the Intake board on Monday.com
Who is the Ops Consultant?
What athena logic is used for document routing to a provider?
The Provider Hierarchy
This HL7 message type is commonly used to send inbound laboratory or radiology results directly into athenaClinicals.
What is an ORU?
What page within athenanet can be used to search for or confirm Inbound or Outbound interface message errors?
The Interface Message Queue Manager (IMQM)
Out of the 3 different group options for Embedded Apps, this is the recommended option as it covers the widest amount of users.
What is the Provider Group?
It starts at over $2600 and only goes up the more complicated it gets.
What is custom interface pricing? This only comes into play if a vendor or care center needs something that's outside of the standard interface.
Where within the HL7 of an Orders/Results message would you find the value of the Sending/Receiving facility?
What is the MSH segment?
This three-letter segment contains patient demographics such as name, date of birth, and gender.
What is the PID?
A Care Center is requesting a connection with IRIS - a global interface. How do you go about getting this care center connected?
Open up a case with athena. Provide provider and department information.
How do you verify a provider's NPI?
Billing Tab > Providers Table or NPI search online
When a receiving system successfully processes an incoming HL7 message, it sends back this general acknowledgement message type.
What is an ACK?
When looking at a result interface message, this is the highest priority field which stores provider information.
What is the OBR.16 field?
Every standard HL7 v2 message must begin with three specific letters representing the Message Header segment.
What is MSH?
For real-time HL7 feeds, athenahealth and external partners typically secure the TCP/IP connection utilizing this type of secure, encrypted network pathway
What is a VPN?
A Provider reaches out and is asking why documents are not being routed to them, but rather to a different user or a STAFF inbox. What is the first thing to check?
What are Interface Mappings?
This term describes a local or regional network that enables independent healthcare organizations to share clinical data securely.
What is an HIE (Health Information Exchange)?
This character (^) is used within an HL7 field to separate smaller sub-units of data, such as first name and last name.
What is a Component Separator (or Caret)?