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

You have separate systems. You need InterSystems.

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 in their 2006 year-end report.

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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Perspective: Arizona e-Health Connection's 2nd Annual Convention delivers state and national e-health picture

Arizona e-Health Connection's 2nd Annual Convention was held in early May in Phoenix, with nearly 400 attending the first day and 250 on the second day. While the summit highlighted the health IT work being done in Arizona, namely with the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the Arizona Rural Health Information Technology Adoption Program and the Southern Arizona Health Information Exchange, it also presented a view of what's happening on the national level and the variety of e-health models out there.  Read more

Montana HIE selects technology vendor

The Health Information Exchange of Montana (HIEM) and Northwest Healthcare have selected Informatics Corporation of America's A3Align Solution. A3Align will bring patient data from multiple facilities into one Web-based solution to provide physicians from the 25 clinics and six hospitals in the HIEM with longitudinal records of their patients.  Read more

Louisiana statewide health information exchange begins

The Richland Parish Hospital in Delhi became the first hospital in Louisiana to successfully send data to the Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LARHIX), where patient data is stored.  Read more

Collaborative looks to HIE to support patient-centered medical home

At its April stakeholder meeting, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative established four project centers to support the patient-centered medical home. One of the centers is the adoption of electronic health information exchange. The American Academy of Family Physicians is a founding member of PCPCC.  Read more

Boise, Idaho, medical group links patient records with lab

Primary Health Medical Group in Boise, Idaho, can now receive test results of its patients from St. Luke's Boise Laboratory and have them deposited into patients' electronic records  Read more

PHR vendor launches "In Case of Emergency" program for mobile phones

A provider of online Personal Health Records, or PHRs, will allow its customers to access their online health records using an Internet-connected mobile phone.  Read more

Business Intelligence called on for reporting capabilities in healthcare organizations

Business intelligence tools are being used in healthcare organizations to enhance financial and clinical decision-making. The Wisconsin Health Information Exchange is using the analytic capabilities of BI tools to glean information on such things as Medicaid cost impacts.  Read more

Patient privacy advocacy groups want privacy protection in e-prescribing mandate

In a letter to Congress, the Coalition for Patient Privacy and 25 of its member organizations want an e-prescribing mandate bill currently in the Senate Finance Committee to protect the privacy of prescription information.  Read more

States given strategies for encouraging physician adoption of EHRs

In a report outlined in its May 12th meeting, the State Alliance for e-Health recommended more than 20 strategies for states to push physician adoption of electronic health records.  Read more

More people involved in UCLA Medical Center privacy invasion

Fourteen more people, including four physicians, were cited by the California Dept. of Public Health as having improperly accessed celebrity electronic medical records.  Read more

Perspective: Arizona e-Health Connection's 2nd Annual Convention delivers state and national e-health picture

Arizona e-Health Connection’s 2nd Annual Convention was held in early May in Phoenix, with nearly 400 attending the first day and 250 on the second day.

While the summit highlighted the health IT work being done in Arizona, namely with the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the Arizona Rural Health Information Technology Adoption Program and the Southern Arizona Health Information Exchange, it also presented a view of what’s happening on the national level and the variety of e-health models out there.
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