Netrika Medicine has introduced transcoders in the Chelyabinsk region for the exchange of data between state-owned clinics and commercial laboratories

2025: Developing Transcoders for Data Sharing

Netrika Medicine has developed transcoders for data exchange between government clinics and commercial laboratories. The company announced this on February 17, 2025.

Medical organizations in the regions often interact with commercial laboratories and diagnostic centers that can perform research under the compulsory health insurance program (compulsory medical insurance). This helps medical institutions to distribute the load on diagnostic equipment and specialists, to speed up the conduct of various, including complex, studies for patients.

Transcoders allow data exchange between various information systems: laboratory, which are connected to the N3.Health platform, and medical, connected to centralized subsystems of data exchange of laboratory (N3.ODLI) and instrumental (N3.ODII) research of state information systems in the field of healthcare, developed by Netrika Medicine.

The use of transcoders provides medical institutions with the opportunity to exchange electronic applications and research results, including at the interregional level.

In addition, the efficient data exchange provided by the transcoder allows for deeper analytics by accumulating more complete information about the laboratory and instrumental studies performed. With such data, specialists of regional health management bodies and MIAC can not only effectively solve operational tasks, but also identify and investigate trends in the field of population health.

The exchange process is constructed as follows. State medical organizations submit to the regional AUDLEY or ODIA system referrals for laboratory tests or descriptions of medical images. They are transcoded to a subsystem running on a commercial platform and become available for integrated commercial laboratories and diagnostic centers. After the studies are completed, the results are also uploaded through transcoders back to both the regional system and the register of electronic medical documents at the federal level. Next, they become available to all interested parties: patients, doctors, field health organizers for the management of various analytics. Full information exchange of data takes place according to the HL7 FHIR standard, safely and seamlessly, due to the use of the integration platform "N3. Healthcare" by Netrika Medicine.

The first region to launch a transcoder was the Chelyabinsk region, which already uses N3.ODLI. Now all applications for laboratory tests from state medical organizations are processed in commercial centers in automatic mode.

For the first time, we provide data exchange between medical institutions not only within the region, but also outside it. It was quite difficult to establish this process for all participants, primarily for commercial laboratories. We took over the solution of all technical issues: no improvements were needed from clinics and diagnostic centers. As of February 2025, transcoders are used in the region of our presence, where AUDLEY subsystems are already deployed. This will partially reduce the burden on public clinics, faster perform high-quality research using the resources of commercial medical organizations and thereby increase the effectiveness of medical care. This is especially true for remote regions, - commented Oleg Kuznetsov, head of data exchange services at Netrika Medicine.

The launch of a transcoder from Netrika Medicine is an important step in optimizing interaction between state clinics and commercial laboratories in the Chelyabinsk region. This technology not only ensures continuity in the provision of medical care, but also combines into a single digital circuit all medical organizations working in the field of compulsory medical insurance, regardless of the form of ownership, which significantly speeds up the process of obtaining the patient's laboratory results. The achieved level of automation helps us not only better meet the needs of the population in medical services, but also maintain high standards for the quality of diagnostics and treatment in the Chelyabinsk region, - said Ilya Yudin, head of the department for the implementation and development of the Unified State Information System in the field of health of the Ministry of Health of the Chelyabinsk Region.