Use the Web to Manage Interfaces and NAI
The WebNAI™ application from The Menon Group, Inc. brings the ease-of-use of the Web to the GE Centricity
® Enterprise (formerly IDX Carecast or LastWord) Network Application Interface (NAI) module. WebNAI frees your staff from manual tasks to enable them to monitor and maintain interfaces more efficiently. Its intuitive, Web-based user interface is so much easier to use than the standard NAI application that customers have likened switching to WebNAI to going from DOS to Windows.
As an extension of NAI, WebNAI provides greater control and flexibility for managing interface throughput, correcting errors and analyzing data from the NAI database. WebNAI lets you automatically correct or delete certain errors, distribute error correction to the responsible departments, and notify appropriate staff via email or pager of events that need attention. At the same time, message editing is faster and more accurate using WebNAI’s on-screen forms. With WebNAI, you can reduce the time required to maintain interfaces while increasing accuracy and efficiency across your interface management functions.
Customer Examples
- Automatic Error Correction at Sharp HealthCare. Sharp lets
WebNAI handle a variety of errors automatically. For example, WebNAI
helps keep the master patient index in sync by intercepting errors
related to patient number merges, automatically creating the necessary
mini-registration in Carecast and resubmitting the messages for
processing by the ADT interface.
- Automatic Message Deletion at UVa Health System. UVa takes advantage of
WebNAI’s automatic error handling. For example, WebNAI automatically
deletes specific, unnecessary error messages. Because not all systems
require the same information updates, UVa allows WebNAI to
automatically delete certain errors to save interface staff from
working those errors manually.
Key Features
- Automate Interface Monitoring. Eliminate the need for operators
to monitor logs 24/7 by letting WebNAI monitor your interfaces and
alert appropriate personnel by email or pager for specified situations.
Enhanced performance graphs let operators see queue depths at a glance.
- Analyze Errors. WebNAI’s flexible filtering and review capabilities let
you display error messages by department or quickly locate errors for a
specific patient across multiple interfaces.
- Manage Error Correction. With WebNAI, error correction is done from an
intuitive on-screen form rather than using the Command Line Utility.
This eliminates the need for users to understand HL7, so error
correction to be distributed to user departments.
- Automate Error Handling. Reduce manual processing by letting WebNAI
handle certain errors automatically. - Oversee Interface Performance.
Use WebNAI to search and analyze all messages in the NAI database,
including messages in the queue, waiting to be processed, successfully
completed or in the Trace.
