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The Mindray BC-20s writes its results into your order

The BC-20s behaves as a server: the bridge is the one that connects to it, not the other way around. It lives on its own isolated network and the bridge reaches it through a second network card in the PC.

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How it connects

  1. Cable the instrument

    A network cable from the BC-20s to a switch, or straight into the bridge PC, on the 10.0.0.x segment. It is best to keep that LAN isolated from the office network.

  2. Turn off histogram transmission as a bitmap

    In the instrument’s menu: “Histograma transmit Como” → “No se transmitirá” — those are the instrument’s own labels, in Spanish, and they mean histogram transmit as → will not be transmitted. This is the setting that prevents the blue screen and the “an error was detected” message when it communicates. It is problem number one on this model.

  3. Register the instrument in the panel

    Devices → add, with HL7-over-TCP transport and the instrument’s address. The bridge picks it up in under a minute, with nothing to reinstall.

  4. Enter the order number (folio) on the instrument

    Scan the order’s label with the BC-20s reader — the most error-proof route — or type the folio in. That is all it takes for the result to land in its own order by itself.

What the configuration looks like

{ "nombre": "Hematología BC-20s", "modelo": "bc_20s", "transporte": "tcp_hl7",
  "connect_to": "10.0.0.2:5100", "no_ack": true }

You do not write it: you generate it from the panel and the installer already carries it inside. We show it so you know exactly what the bridge is doing on your network.

If something does not work

If the instrument answers “connection refused”, or simply hangs on port 5100, it is almost always because it still has the bridge’s previous connection open. Restart the analyzer or wait out its timeout; killing the bridge outright does not help.

And if the result arrives but does not land in the order

It goes to the unassigned-results tray, under Devices. From there you send it to the right order in two clicks. That case is almost always the folio not being entered on the instrument, or typed in differently — which is why scanning the label beats typing it.

What happens to the rest of the laboratory

Tests that do not come off this instrument are entered the way they always were, by hand, in the worklist. Connecting one analyzer does not commit you to connecting them all: every instrument you add takes work away, and the ones that are not supported do not get in the way.

Bring it to the demo

Twenty minutes with your Mindray BC-20s switched on. You run a sample and watch the result show up in the order without anyone typing it.

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