Practice Management Systems Interface

Synapse is able to import patients and appointments using standard HL7 messages if the PMS is able to generate these.  However, most PMS are not able to do this.

In conjunction with Zybex, a California based PMS company, we developed a text file ( CSV ) interface to their specifications which allows you to generate a CSV file containing patient data and appointment data that can be imported into Synapse.  Additionally, Synapse will generate billing information that can be used by a PMS.  The specification is attached.

So, if you run a PMS that is based upon Access, or other ODBC compliant database, then you could use visual basic or other language to create the text messages from your PMS database and send them to the monitored directory ( c:\synapse\export ) which Synapse will then import.

See Settings/User/Export&Import Interface Settings to configure the directories and polling frequency, and Settings/Interface/Start Interface to start Synapse polling.

We also have an optional bridge to Medisoft that will bring your Medisoft demographics across to Synapse in near real time.  Contact us if you are interested in purchasing this.