Siemens OPENLink provides innovative, user-friendly tools that empower users to quickly build interfaces enabling the exchange of complex information. The soution bridges clinical, lab, Imaging, financial, administration, and other systems that require online data. Siemens OPENLink seamlessly transfers data between systems that utilize different communication standards and protocols and also provides the security tools needed to help hospitals comply with HIPAA rules and guidelines. The solution is based on web-based, health system and research standards, including HL7, X12, XML, and DICOM.