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NHINWatch is sponsored by InterSystems, a leading provider of software technology for connected healthcare.

InterSystems supports the vision of connected healthcare by providing software products that enable the rapid creation of electronic health record systems on a regional or national basis. InterSystems HealthShare(tm) is a comprehensive solution for aggregating and securely sharing clinical data across multiple organizations. To address the unique requirements of each system, HealthShare has the flexibility to work with a variety of architectures, and includes a rapid development and customization environment. That was one reason why the State of Rhode Island and the Long Island Patient Information eXchange (LIPIX) chose HealthShare.

With HealthShare, you'll be able to take an incremental approach to deployment. You can preserve the separate systems that local healthcare professionals are accustomed to using, and rapidly transform them into connected regional or national systems. This means significant reductions in the cost, development time, and risk of creating and operating an electronic health record system.

To learn more, view our online HealthShare Demonstration, or read the white paper "Creating Electronic Health Record Systems with InterSystems HealthShare".

HealthShare leverages innovations by InterSystems that make Caché, our high-performance object database, and Ensemble, our rapid integration software the premier application platforms in healthcare. Ensemble was ranked as the #1 interface engine by KLAS (pdf) in its 2006 and 2007 year-end reports.

At InterSystems, we believe that connected healthcare systems increase both the quality, and the efficiency, of healthcare. We applaud all the initiatives aimed at creating regional or national health networks, here in the United States, and abroad. And we are pleased to sponsor NHINWatch, which provides a valuable service to organizations that are pursuing connected healthcare.


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Healthcare leaders favor personal networks to RHIOs for data exchange

Personal health information networks are likely to prove better models for health data exchange than regional health information organizations, or RHIOs, speakers said Tuesday, July 22, at a world conference on interoperability in Boston.  Read more

HIMSS names chair of HIE steering committee

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has selected Laura Kolkman, president of Mosaica Partners, to serve as chair of HIMSS' Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) Steering Committee.  Read more

House moves forward on PRO(TECH)T Act for healthcare IT

The Committee on Energy and Commerce announced it will mark up the PRO(TECH)T Act of 2008 Wednesday, July 23, in an effort to move healthcare IT legislation through Congress before the close of the year.  Read more

New Mexico looks to implementing HIE in 2009

The New Mexico Health Information Collaborative, a collaborative project of the Lovelace Clinic Foundation and 58 other stakeholders, is anticipating having a data exchange system commercially available by July 2009.  Read more

North Carolina community health center wins grant for EHR system

Wake Health Services, a private not-for-profit community health center in central North Carolina, has been awarded a $100,000 grant to help in the planned adoption of an electronic health record system.  Read more

S.C. HIE goes live

Despite concerns regarding privacy of patient information, the South Carolina Health Information Exchange, or SCHIEx, made 800,000 clinical histories of disabled and poor residents available to providers.  Read more

Medsphere and Webreach EHR partnership to deliver interoperability to providers

Medsphere and Webreach have partnered to offer interoperability with an open-source electronic health record system.  Read more

HIT House bill criticized over privacy and funding

A new bill working its way through Congress that aims to speed the adoption of health IT systems through grants and loans to providers. Critics say the funding is not enough. While privacy advocates say the privacy provisions need to be more stringent, others say that they are cumbersome.  Read more

South Dakota healthcare system finds value in EMR system

Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, S.D., implemented its electronic medical record system, which connects it to a number of other healthcare systems, last year. It is seeing numerous benefits.  Read more

Senate examines health IT in improving healthcare delivery, cost

The Senate Finance Committee held its fourth in a series of hearings Thursday, July 17, to prepare for Congressional action on health reform.  Read more

Perspective: connecting hospitals and physicians

Lourdes Hospital of Paduca, Kentucky, and the Health Information Exchange of Montana (HIEM) will be implementing Informatics Corporation of America’s (ICA) A3Align Solution, technology that enables clinicians to access, evaluate and act upon patient data across disparate systems.
Gary Zegiestowsky, CEO of ICA, said that the two implementations speak to an ongoing trend he is seeing in the industry – the need to have a complete view of a patient across treatment settings (within a hospital and across the community) to make informed decisions.
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