Health Information Exchange (HIE) is happening every minute of every day. Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
Clinician Network Management Solutions Instrumental for Evolving Healthcare Delivery Models and Expanding Integrated Networks
As the healthcare industry continues its historic embrace of value-based care and payments, data interoperability has come to the forefront as absolutely critical for success. The 2017 Clinician Network Management Market Trends Report (@ChilmarkHIT) provides an overview of realistic approaches and solutions to improve data interoperability across the industry. Leading solution vendors are assessed and rated on their capabilities to support this critical function as well as their product roadmap and its alignment to future market needs. Read press release.
Lieberman Software Announces Interoperability with RSA® Identity Governance and Lifecycle
Lieberman Software Corporation (@Liebsoft) announced a new product interoperability with RSA, a Dell Technologies business. The interoperable solution combines Lieberman Software’s Privileged Access Management (PAM) product, Rapid Enterprise Defense (RED) Identity Management, with the RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle platform. This innovative interoperability helps organizations manage and control privileged user access and end user access to applications, systems and data across the enterprise, through one comprehensive identity governance platform.
HL7 Publishes FHIR® Release 3
Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) (@HL7), the global authority for interoperability in healthcare information technology with affiliates in 35 countries, announced that it has published Release 3 of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) Standard for Trial Use (STU). The new version is the culmination of 18 months of extensive work to incorporate changes and enhancement requests received from implementation partners across the world, including the Argonaut Project.
Grady First Metro Hospital to Link Pump and EMR System
Grady Health System (@GradyHealth) is proud to be Metro Atlanta’s first hospital to successfully integrate the Alaris IV smart pump technology with its Epic electronic medical record (EMR) – taking patient safety to a new level. To date, approximately 25% of U.S. hospitals have achieved smart pump-EMR interoperability.
Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates Connects to GaHIN
Atlanta Gastroenterology Associates (AGA), one of the largest gastroenterology practices in the country, has connected with the Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN) (@GeorgiaHIE), the statewide health information exchange (HIE) that facilitates the secure exchange of patient health information among hospitals, physicians, clinicians and other members of the medical community.
AHN and VA Integrate Electronic Medical Records
Allegheny Health Network (AHN) (@AHNtoday) and VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) announced the successful integration of their Electronic Medical Records (EMR) platforms. The two organizations can now exchange veterans’ health records securely and seamlessly for a more connected patient-provider experience.
MedAptus® and MD Interconnect Sign Partnership to Bring Next Generation of Team-Based Care Coordination to Hospitals
MedAptus® (@MedAptus), a Boston-based healthcare technology company, has signed a partnership agreement with MD Interconnect (@MDInterconnect), a mobile health technology company, to provide the next generation of total team care coordination. The partnership will combine the best of MedAptus’ intelligent patient assignment technology with MD Interconnect’s secure messaging solution, RapidConnect.
IBM Watson Health to Integrate MedyMatch Technology into Cognitive Imaging Offerings to Help Doctors Identify Head Trauma and Stroke
MedyMatch Technology (@MedyMatch) announced a collaboration with IBM (@IBM) Watson Health to bring MedyMatch’s A.I.-based clinical decision support application to imaging experts working in hospital emergency rooms and other acute care settings to help doctors identify instances of intracranial bleeding as a result of head trauma and stroke. Initially, IBM Watson Health’s Imaging group will distribute the MedyMatch brain bleed detection application globally through its vendor neutral sales channels. Moving forward, IBM Watson Health and MedyMatch will develop interoperability between MedyMatch’s application and IBM Watson Health Imaging’s offerings.
GetWellNetwork and Veterans Health Administration Integrate Technology to Transform Care
GetWellNetwork®, Inc. (@GetWellNetwork), the leader in Interactive Patient Care™ (IPC) solutions, announced the completion of interfaces enabling secure data exchange between the company’s IPC platform and VistA/CPRS, the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) electronic health record system. GetWellNetwork also integrates with other technology platforms used by the VHA, including Computrition for meal ordering and Vocera for integrated communications.
Redox Partners with CommonWell to Build APIs
CommonWell Health Alliance (@CommonWell) announced that it would partner with Redox (@Redox) and other CommonWell members to build new application programming interfaces (APIs) to expand the services of its network and increase value for patients and caregivers.
New DOD Electronic Medical Record System Called a Success
The Defense Department’s newly modernized electronic health record system was recognized as successful after a weeklong deployment at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington, officials said Feb. 15. Fairchild’s 92nd Medical Group became the first military hospital or clinic to use MHS GENESIS, a single, integrated electronic inpatient and outpatient health record that transforms health care delivery within DOD’s Military Health System, officials said.