Archive for August, 2009

Preparing for Meaningful Use

In order to achieve meaningful use, interaction and interoperability must increase across multiple points in the healthcare ecosystem. This requires bi-directional information exchange and improved communications about patient status and outcomes among providers, patients, and care facilities.

esure Creates Single Customer View

esure, an online insurance company based in the UK, solicited the help of Initiate Systems to provide core identity-resolution and MDM technology create a single customer view and act as an enabler for many future projects.

Charitable Health Network Selects Initiate Systems to Provide Foundation for Enterprise-Wide PACS/RIS Implementation

Nuffield Hospital matched and linked 2 million patient records across 32 facilities through an EMPI, to deliver a single, complete view of patient demographics, ensuring a high level of accuracy and service.

UPMC Undergoes EMPI Transplant for Future Wellness

UPMC required an EMPI solution that could support their ongoing growth and keep pace with reporting and analytical needs. Additionally, they required a robust functionality for identifying duplicate records within and across multiple systems and care venues.

PAML Links Data On Demand Across 100+ Hospitals

PAML wanted to create a complete, on-demand clinical view of their patients by enabling their tests to be linked in real time. Such linking would also improve results reporting, billing, and bottom-line profitability.

Ontario Reduces Wait Times for Healthcare Delivery

Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care serves the healthcare needs of 13 million people in Canada’s largest province. The province needed a comprehensive EMPI, also known as a client registry, to support its Wait Time Strategy to reduce patient wait times for healthcare delivery.

Newfoundland Centre Finds Remedy for Province-Wide Demographic Data Linking

The Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information needed to link several silos of patient data to meet their objectives, including the implementation of a PACS, a province-wide drug information system, and an EHR for every patient.

Innovative Care Management for High-Risk Populations

One of the largest not-for-profit healthcare providers in the United States, well known for delivering high quality healthcare services including preventive-care programs, faced the need to lower costs while improving quality. They needed an innovative approach to manage the care of senior citizens.

Data Where-Houses: Would You Like a Wheel?

In many companies, Data Warehouses are like the Roman Empire: vast, all encompassing, bringing order to chaos, with an influence that can often be felt across the entire organization. But it’s important to realize that not all roads lead to Rome.

Sutter Health Prescribes Initiate to Help Cure Data Integration Ills

Northern California’s Sutter Health faced a growing focus on health information exchange, driving the demand for interoperability between facilities, physician offices and regions.