Transparent Secure Link for Point-of-Care Devices

A method comprising:

• accessing low-level instrument protocol data from a point-of-care testing (POCT) device using a mobile computing device, the mobile computing device and the POCT device being located external to a laboratory information system (LIS) environment;
• configuring the low-level instrument protocol data using a data broker on the mobile computing device to produce secured POCT data;
• transmitting the secured POCT data to the LIS environment using a wide-area network infrastructure;
• accessing the low-level instrument protocol data from the secured POCT data in at least one of the wide-area network infrastructure or the LIS environment;
• and
• populating an electronic medical record (EMR) in an LIS of the LIS environment using information from the low-level instrument protocol data accessed from the secured POCT data.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program code executable by a processor to cause a mobile computing device to:

• receive low-level instrument protocol data from a point-of-care testing (POCT) device located external to a laboratory information system (LIS) environment;
• configure the low-level instrument protocol data using a data broker on the mobile computing device to produce secured POCT data;
• and
• transmit the secured POCT data to the LIS environment using a wide-area network infrastructure.

A system comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program code to provide a secure link for a point-of-care (POC) electronic medical record (EMR);
• and
• a processor device communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the processor device is configured for executing the computer program code to:
• access low-level EMR data within a laboratory information system (LIS) environment or a hospital information system (HIS) environment;
• configure the low-level EMR data using a remote broker to produce secured EMR data;
• transmit the secured EMR data to a POC environment using a wide-area network infrastructure;
• access the low-level EMR data from the secured EMR data in the POC environment, the POC environment being outside of the LIS or HIS environment;
• and
• populate or update the POC EMR using information from the low-level EMR data.