Consultancy Services

Proven Experience

CaboLabs has successfully participated in numerous consulting projects,training, research and development.

How do we work?

Expert advice on international standards implementation

Do not miss more opportunities by not being compliant with international standards

HL7 v2.x

Avoid headaches and delays in projects due to profiling and implementation of HL7 messaging v2.x. Follow the safe way: we have great experience in this area and provide expert advice on integration of hospital systems, including: Electronic Medical Records, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Imaging, Scheduling, Referrals, and Orders and Results management.

HL7 CDA

We advise on the design and implementation of HL7 CDA clinical documents and repositories of clinical documents and communication between health information systems. We have experience in designing HL7 CDA Implementation Guides.

openEHR

We advice on designing and building clinical information systemas that comply with the openEHR specifications. We aer experts in openEHR data storage solutions, openEHR data communication, and archetype and template design.

Also, at CaboLabs we created the first online training program on openEHR related topics: specification, database design, and interoperability. More info

DICOM

We advise on integration of different imganinology systems like RIS, PACS and Radiologinal Reportnig Systems. Also we offer consultancy services on integrating imaginilogy systems and EHR/EMR systems.

Technology advisory

Do not stand behind your competitors, use top notch technologies on your next project.

Tecnologías que utiliza CaboLabs

Mirth

Comprehensive open source integration engine that supports different protocolos and messaging formats such as TCP, MLLP, HTTP, XML, JSON and HL7.

HAPI

The best and most complete open source HL7 library to generate and process HL7 messages in ER7 or XML encodings.

Archetype Editor, ADL Workbench, Template Designer, Clinical Knowledge Manager

All the tools to create, manage and publish openEHR archetypes and templates to control the information semantics of your clinical record system.

Java, Groovy, PHP, C# .Net

We can work with various programming languages. We can prototype solutions and help you in software development.
Research and Evaluation of Technologies

We can help you evaluate and choose new technologies for your projects, reducing the technical risks and development times. You can get the best results by complementing these services with expert training tailored to your specific needs.

Software System Evaluation

This consultancy service allows you to get a real sense of maturity, robustness, friendliness and quality of your software solutions, from the points of view of the technologies, methodologies and end-users, including using standards, good practices, interoperability and usability.

  • System Evaluation for Acquisition of new tools or improvement your own tools
  • Usability Evaluation for Clinical Information Systems
  • System Architecture Evaluation
  • Clinical Databases / Data Storage Solutions Design and Implementation
  • Requirements Gathering and Specification
  • Process and Workflow analysis and specification
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Proven experience in EHR, integration and training projects

Throughout the time we have participated in various projects in the area of health informatics, research, development, consultancy, advice, training and coaching.

Clinical System Integration for the European Union

Customer: ZorgGemak/MedVision 360 (Nederlands)
Projects: CHIRON, MedRecord, MedFit, Edfamis (related to EHRs, Middleware / Integration Engines, Telemedicine and Teleradiology)
Specific tasks:
  • Building of a HL7 CDA - openEHR Broker for clinical data communication (Web Services, REST, SOAP, XML, JSON)
  • Building of an API to integrate mobile apps with an openEHR EHR backend
  • Integration of DICOM imaginology studies with an openEHR backend using our DICOM Broker

Healthcare services transparent-pricing platform

Customer: Solarte Health / Tarmac (US)
Project: platform for self-insured employers by employees that allows employees and family members to search for healthcare services close to them, compare prices and provider rankings
Specific tasks:
  • Requirements gathering and specification
  • Project planning, scope definitions and estimations
  • Software architecture and design (internal components, information model, REST API, 3rd party integrations, 2 native mobile apps, backend, web portals)
  • Analisys of integrations with insurance companies for Part A services (ANSI 837 standard claim messages, ANSI 834 patient enrollment messages)
  • Usability Assessment & Quality Assurance
  • Development team coordination

Health tracking and healthcare communication platform

Customer: SimpleCare / Tarmac (US)
Project: platform for patients and healthcare providers, to allow better patient-physician communications, health indicators tracking and goals management, integrated with 3rd party wearable devices
Specific tasks:
  • Requirements gathering and specification
  • Project planning, scope definitions and estimations
  • Software architecture and design (internal components, information model, REST API, 3rd party integrations, 2 native mobile apps, backend, web portals)
  • Usability Assessment & Quality Assurance
  • Development team coordination
  • Advisory on e-Health standards (focus on the information model)

Health tracking and healthcare communication platform

Customer: Cohere Health / Tarmac (US)
Project: platform for health management for celiac patients
Specific tasks:
  • Requirements gathering and specification
  • Project planning, scope definitions and estimations
  • Software architecture and design (internal components, information model, REST API, 3rd party integrations, 2 native mobile apps, backend, web portals)
  • Usability Assessment & Quality Assurance
  • Advisory on e-Health standards

Complete design for an standardized Clinical Information System

Customer: Digital Overcoming (Spain & UK)
Project: complete software architecture and design of an stantardized, modularized and interoperable clinical information system for clinics
Specific tasks:
  • Requirements gathering and specification
  • Software architecture and design (internal components, information model, REST API, 3rd party integrations, 2 native mobile apps, backend, web portals)
  • Advisory on e-Health standards (mainly openEHR for the internal design, HL7 & DICOM for communications between components)

Consultancy on interoperability standards to integrate a new EHR

Customer: CASMU (Uruguay)
Project: training and advisory in clinical system interoperability standards
Specific tasks:
  • Training about HL7 v2.x messaging and HL7 CDA Clinical Documents
  • Design of CDA Clinical Documents for laboratory test results (to integrate results with the new EHR and export legacy results)
  • Design of HL7 v2.x messages with mappings to legacy systems
  • Evaluation of locally designed HL7 CDA Clinical Documents
  • Advisory about internal identification for master dictionaries

Consultancy to improve existing cloud-based EHR for clinics

Customer: ASP Soluciones (Panamá)
Project: MiClinicaWeb is an existing and very successful EHR & Management System used in a lot of clinics, the customer wanted to improve several areas, preparing to scale
Specific tasks:
  • Database Assessment to improve schema design and performance
  • Usability Assesstment to improve the user interface and User Experience
  • Evaluation of new designs of the database, based on the openEHR Information Model
  • Design of the REST API for to integrate the new Mobile Apps with the existing Backend.
  • Advisory about technologies, methodlogies and good practices for e-Health projects.
  • Training on e-Health standards

Healthcare Plans Management for Chronic Pain Patients

Customer: PainPartner / Interactive Health Solutions (US)
Project: system to allow healthcare providers to set plans, track progress and improve the quality of life of patients with chronic pain.
Specific tasks:
  • Software architecture and design (internal components, information model, REST API, 3rd party integrations)
  • Specify a system for creating and managing care plans for patients with chronic pain, establishing therapeutic goals, and monitoring patient outcomes.

Integration between an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and a Laboratory Information System (LIS)

Customer: GLYMS Software (Argentina)
Specific tasks:
  • HL7 v2.5 messaging specification for interoperability between EHR and LIS
  • Compliance with IHE profiles for laboratory management (LTW)
  • Prototyping HL7 communication in C# .Net

Integration of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) with a Patient Portal

Customer: Medical Web Experts (Argentina & US) Specific tasks:
  • Training on HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) and CCD (Continuity of Care Document)
  • Specifying HL7 v2.x message interfaces in Mirth for receiving LAB study results
  • Building prototypes of HL7 communication with Java
  • Specifying mappings between HL7 v2.x messages and HL7 CCD clinical documents

Integration of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) and legacy hospital information systems

Customer: Genexus Consulting / K2B / Asociación Española (Uruguay) Specific tasks:
  • Analysis of current situation (systems, networks, technologies)
  • Analysis and validation of interoperability architecture
  • Specifying standard interfaces for system integration (HL7 v2.x, HL7 CDA, IHE, DICOM)
  • Coaching for development and validation of interoperability
  • Coaching for development and use of Middleware Mirth

Computerization of the national Healthcare Card for the MoH

Customer: SOFIS Solutions (Uruguay) Specific tasks:
  • Specification HL7 CDA document format for the national health card.

Consultancy to improve existing EHR for 350.00 patients

Customer: Vinculo Medico (Argentina) Specific tasks:
  • Advisory on e-Health standards implementation and interoperability
  • Development of a proof of concept project to evaluate an openEHR implementation
  • Usability assesstment to improve the User Interface and the User Experience
  • Training on openEHR and HL7

Federated National EHR

Customer: Federación Médica del Interior (FEMI) (Uruguay) Specific tasks:
  • Advice on medical informatics standards (openEHR, HL7, DICOM)
  • Development of specifications / public international request for proposals to buy an EHR product
  • Evaluation of technical proposals from IT providers
  • Definition of internal standards for the federation (FEMI)
  • Training in Medical Informatics, Standards and Interoperability for clinicians and IT professionals
  • Development of prototypes and management of development teams

Advisory on Digital Imaginology

Customer: CONATEL (Uruguay) Specific tasks:
  • Advisory on DICOM, HL7, PACS, RIS, Middleware
  • Advisory on integration of PACS, RIS, imaging modalities and EMRs
  • Prototype development and integration testing
  • Consulting and project specifications

EHRServer: Standardized Clinical Information Server

CaboLabs project of an openEHR EHR Storage, with a service oriented API, implemented in Grails Framework, Groovy and Java.
Project page: https://cabolabs.com/en/projects

Framework for Clinical Record Systems

CaboLabs project of an openEHR-based framework to create EMRs.

DICOM Broker

CaboLabs tool to integrate external systems with a set of PACS.