In the highly productive and competitive era that we live in today, more companies are focusing on what they do best and divesting themselves of operations that fall outside of their core competencies. These companies maintain a competitive advantage by choosing instead to partner with companies that have a demonstrated capability in non-core but strategically important areas of their business.
At LINK Medical, we do not develop or manufacture any of the instrumentation or information systems that we integrate. Our focus on interfacing allows our partners and many other to concentrate on their products. Vendors have discovered that partnering with LINK Medical compliments and supports their products without diverting extensive focus or resources.

At the same time, experience has taught us that integrating two systems takes more than just an understanding of communications protocols and networking. It is also about understanding how the integrated systems function, and the usefulness of those systems to clinicians, administrators and patients alike. Working closely with our partners has resulted in better interfaces that are products, and therefore may be marketed with both parties benefiting.

LINK Medical’s commitment to its partners goes beyond developing interfaces. We provide procedures and information that help these partners sell and position integration and help them avoid the pitfalls of unmet or misunderstood customer expectations. Additionally, agreements are made which covers the safeguarding of confidential information. It is not unusual for LINK Medical to work with proprietary and confidential information from competing vendors. Not only are we rigorous about maintaining confidentiality, we are often able to act as an "honest broker" or bridge between competing vendors in situations were data is required to pass between their respective systems.

In a similar fashion, we also act as a bridge between a vendor and the end user. Vendors, many of whom are committed to the concept of "Open Systems," are legitimately concerned that providing unfettered access will negatively impact the integrity of their systems and data. Vendors find that it requires far fewer resources to work with LINK Medical as the intermediary than to have to educate and monitor inexperienced end-users that desire access to their systems. Moreover, LINK Medical’s learning curve can be amortized over a large number of the same interfaces, decreasing the per interface unit cost to the vendor. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the vendor has the confidence that the interface can be properly supported in the future and that scarce engineering resources will not have to be reallocated to "put-out-fires" when the inevitable support call comes.

Partnership with LINK

LINK will work directly with vendors of departmental/ ancillary information systems and instruments to 'interface enable' their systems and to ensure that our LINKMED® can accommodate any unique configuration requirements related to the vendor's system. we will work with the vendor to refine an interface strategy. The New release of LINKMED® Interface Development kit incorporates 10 years of practical integration experience and embodies LINK's goal of providing a cost effective, flexible interface tool that can be implemented with a minimum of training and absolutely no programming.
If your company is interested in investigating partnership options please sent E-mail contact to: Partners@linkmed.com