MedPlus® Successfully Demonstrates Data Exchange Between Multiple Regional HIEs
by Barbara Kram, Editor | September 26, 2008
Patient records shared electronically
CINCINNATI - MedPlus®, the healthcare information technology subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics® Incorporated (NYSE:DGX), has successfully demonstrated HIE-to-HIE (Health Information Exchange) patient data sharing as part of the Nationwide Health Information Network's (NHIN) Trial Implementations Core Content Testing Event. The August 2008 event represented the largest such demonstration of NHIN capabilities to date. Sponsored by the U.S. government's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the NHIN seeks to establish a secure, nationwide, interoperable health information infrastructure to connect providers, consumers and others involved in supporting health and healthcare.
MedPlus is currently providing technology and support to one third of the original nine NHIN contractors across three states. The company's technology serves more hospitals, physicians and patients than any other software provider involved in the initiative.
Data exchange tests were performed between MedPlus' regional HIE clients and other NHIN Trial Implementation program participants. Preliminary testing successfully demonstrated interoperability between them, proving that one HIE could identify a common patient with another HIE, and then request and receive a patient summary from the second HIE. Once the common patient had been identified, the sending HIE needed to return a continuity of care document (CCD), otherwise known as an HITSP C32 transaction.
"MedPlus is committed to both promoting the success of the NHIN initiative and helping its clients participate in this important national endeavor," explains Richard Mahoney, MedPlus president and vice president of Healthcare Information Solutions for Quest Diagnostics. "That's why we've been providing expert counsel in guiding development of the architecture since the very beginning as part of the NHIN working group. The NHIN Core Content Testing Event was the largest such demonstration to date, and the outcome has shown that the NHIN goals can, and will, be met."
Within the NHIN, MedPlus is providing HIE infrastructure for the New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX, Inc.) under the umbrella of the NY eHealth Collaborative (NYeC); the Long Beach Network for Health (LBNH) in Southern California; and the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC), created, staffed and operated by the Lovelace Clinic Foundation (LCF).
"The success of the Testing Event is an important step toward establishing a national health network, which holds great potential benefit for American patients and practitioners alike," says Gilad J. Kuperman, MD, PhD, chairman of the NYCLIX board. "MedPlus has proven to be proactive, quickly delivering these solutions despite their incredible complexity. I can't overstate the importance of this event. In an era when implementation of an HIE is still considered a major accomplishment, thanks to MedPlus, NYCLIX has already demonstrated inter-HIE data exchange according to national standards."
MedPlus is currently providing technology and support to one third of the original nine NHIN contractors across three states. The company's technology serves more hospitals, physicians and patients than any other software provider involved in the initiative.
Data exchange tests were performed between MedPlus' regional HIE clients and other NHIN Trial Implementation program participants. Preliminary testing successfully demonstrated interoperability between them, proving that one HIE could identify a common patient with another HIE, and then request and receive a patient summary from the second HIE. Once the common patient had been identified, the sending HIE needed to return a continuity of care document (CCD), otherwise known as an HITSP C32 transaction.
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"MedPlus is committed to both promoting the success of the NHIN initiative and helping its clients participate in this important national endeavor," explains Richard Mahoney, MedPlus president and vice president of Healthcare Information Solutions for Quest Diagnostics. "That's why we've been providing expert counsel in guiding development of the architecture since the very beginning as part of the NHIN working group. The NHIN Core Content Testing Event was the largest such demonstration to date, and the outcome has shown that the NHIN goals can, and will, be met."
Within the NHIN, MedPlus is providing HIE infrastructure for the New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX, Inc.) under the umbrella of the NY eHealth Collaborative (NYeC); the Long Beach Network for Health (LBNH) in Southern California; and the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC), created, staffed and operated by the Lovelace Clinic Foundation (LCF).
"The success of the Testing Event is an important step toward establishing a national health network, which holds great potential benefit for American patients and practitioners alike," says Gilad J. Kuperman, MD, PhD, chairman of the NYCLIX board. "MedPlus has proven to be proactive, quickly delivering these solutions despite their incredible complexity. I can't overstate the importance of this event. In an era when implementation of an HIE is still considered a major accomplishment, thanks to MedPlus, NYCLIX has already demonstrated inter-HIE data exchange according to national standards."
