Connect

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Connect is the device-integration hub. It links your laboratory analyzers and imaging modalities to Veona as connected devices, sends orders down to those instruments, and ingests their results back into the right requisition. It speaks the instrument standards directly — ASTM and LIS2-A (lab analyzer protocols), HL7 v2 (Health Level 7 messaging), FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), and DICOM with MWL (the DICOM Modality Worklist that pushes imaging orders down to modalities).

Note

Every integrated device ships with a true-to-equipment simulator as well as a live reporter. The simulator transmits continuously against the device’s real protocol, so connection and operational status on every screen reflects a genuine live state — never a frozen, seeded value. You can pause or resume all simulators from the Devices screen; live devices are unaffected.

Who uses it

• Integration admins manage devices, standards, mappings, and the message queue (connect.settings.manage, connect.device.manage, connect.device.test, connect.message.retry, connect.standards.manage).
• Connect is a fulfilment-side hub gated wholesale by connect.read; prescribers do not hold it.

Editions

Available in Hospital, Network, and Public Health editions.

Screens

Screen	What it is for
Connect Console	The integration overview.
Devices	The device registry — register, enable/disable, and test instruments.
Standards	The outward FHIR, HL7 v2, DHIS2, DICOM, and REST endpoints and their health.
Routing	How orders and results route between Veona and devices.
Message Queue	The retry queue — replay or dead-letter messages.
Mappings	Code and identifier mappings between Veona and devices.
Message Logs	The exchanged-message audit trail.
Health	Live device and interface health.
Appliance	The on-site Connect appliance configuration.
Connect Catalogue	The catalogue of supported devices and vendors.

The device registry

Analyzers and imaging modalities are registered as connected devices. The Devices screen is the instrument-interfacing console (“ASTM / LIS2-A / HL7 v2 / DICOM”).

1. Open Devices and press Add Device. Enter the device’s details and protocol.

2. After registering, run Test Connection on the device. In live mode the appliance attempts the real instrument at the configured address; the result confirms the link before you rely on it.

A device’s directionality is shown on its detail: bidirectional instruments support results-up, orders-down, and host-query; unidirectional instruments report results-up only.

How orders go down and results come back

• Orders down: when a lab or imaging order is raised, Connect routes it to the mapped instrument. Imaging modalities receive their orders through MWL; lab analyzers receive theirs over their ASTM/LIS2-A/HL7 link.
• Results up: the instrument returns results, and Connect ingests them and matches them back to the correct requisition by barcode (the specimen or accession barcode), so values land on the right order automatically.

Retry the message queue

1. Open the Message Queue. Messages are listed by state (Queued, Retrying, Failed, Sent, Acknowledged).

2. On a failed message, choose Retry to re-queue it for delivery (the retry is idempotent — safe even if the message already sent), or Dead-Letter to move it aside for manual review.

Standards

The Standards screen (“Standards & Exchange”) shows the outward FHIR R4, HL7 v2, DHIS2, DICOM, and REST endpoints and their health, with a live toggle per endpoint. Mappings holds the code and identifier translations between Veona and each device.