Veterinary imaging interoperability

Every PIMS. Every PACS. One clean stream.

Tributary reads the HL7v2 orders and DICOM studies coming out of whatever practice management and imaging systems your hospitals already run, and normalizes them into one API — so you stop building a new connector every time you acquire a practice.

read-only · single connection · 6-week pilot
SOURCE SYSTEMS TRIBUTARY DOWNSTREAM
PIMS · hospital A PIMS · hospital B PACS · DICOM feed Lab results · fax/PDF HL7v2 order feed Worklist triage Analytics Prior auth / claims normalized layer
Why it's needed

Your imaging data speaks a different dialect at every hospital.

No shared standard

Every PIMS vendor built its own schema. What one system calls a study, another calls something else entirely — there's no HL7v2 or DICOM dialect every vendor agrees on.

Manual handoffs

Referral images move on a burned CD. Lab results arrive by fax. Someone on your team is still retyping data that already exists somewhere else, twice a day, at every location.

Compounding acquisitions

Every practice you bring in adds one more dialect to reconcile, and one more point-to-point integration for your team to babysit indefinitely.

How it works

One connector, not five.

01 · Ingest

Read the feeds you already have

Tributary listens to your existing HL7v2 order messages and DICOM study metadata. Nothing changes for the front desk or the tech at the modality — no re-training, no new hardware.

02 · Normalize

Reconcile the dialects

Each vendor's field quirks and local codes get mapped into one consistent structure, so "study" means the same thing whether it came from hospital A or hospital B.

03 · Persist

Store it once, cleanly

The normalized layer lives in one place your team controls — not scattered across whatever export format each legacy system happens to support.

04 · Expose

Give every tool one API

Analytics, triage, billing, or a specialist network — anything you build next queries one clean interface, regardless of how many source systems sit behind it.

Who it's for

Built for the groups holding more than one system together.

Multi-location groups

Corporate consolidators and specialty networks running two or more PIMS or PACS after an acquisition — before you standardize everyone onto one platform, or instead of ever having to.

Teleradiology networks

Specialist reading groups that receive studies from dozens of independent practices, each on a different system, and need one intake pipeline instead of dozens of one-off arrangements.

Labs & insurers

Diagnostics and pet insurance partners who'd otherwise build a separate connector for every PIMS platform they want to reach.

Pilot program

Start with two systems, six weeks.

Week 1–2
Access & mapping. We get read access to your HL7v2 and DICOM feeds and map the quirks of each vendor.
Week 2–4
Normalize. Vendor-specific data gets reconciled into one consistent structure.
Week 4–5
Stand up the layer. Normalized data is loaded and available through a single read API.
Week 5–6
Prove it. You see integration time, data quality, and query performance measured against your current setup — read-only, nothing in your existing workflow changes.

Stop building a new connector for every acquisition.

Bring two of your systems. In six weeks, see them speaking the same language.

Book a pilot scoping call