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The Medicity electronic newsletter is a bi-monthly
 summary of company news and events.
Medicity Marks Growth with Headquarters
Revamp and Personnel Realignment
Medicity's Web Site Has a New Look!
DHIN and Medicity Achieve First-Phase Milestone
Medicity Product Suite Gets
Visibility at MEDITECH
User Conference
Memorial Hospital Signs On for Medicity’s Interoperability
Solution
EMR Gateway Signs on Companion Technologies
CalRHIO Selects Medicity to Operate RHIO Solution
 Medicity Marks Growth with Headquarters Revamp
and Personnel Realignment
Medicity recently held an open house
to celebrate the opening of two new floors in the Medicity
building, the company’s Salt Lake City headquarters.
The newly refurbished space will house executive and administrative
staff. Medicity outgrew its space in the six-floor office
building in downtown Salt Lake City that bears its name. Dynamic
sales growth will drive an increase of nearly 50 percent in
the company’s full-time staff in 2007.
Keeping pace with this growth, Medicity
has realigned its staff into cross-functional teams to create
greater organizational accountability and effectiveness. These
teams include engineers, customer support reps, technical
writers, and project managers. Medicity’s new office
space supports this organizational strategy to focus on communications
crucial to fulfilling customer needs and providing strong
customer support.
Medicity's Web Site Has a New Look!
Medicity’s website has a new look
and revised information to match its current product messaging
and collateral. With a continued emphasis on Medicity software
and customer needs, the site features easy navigation and
coverage of the company’s latest market activities.
Visit the new site at www.medicity.com.
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DHIN and Medicity
Achieve First-Phase Milestone
The first phase of the Delaware Health
Information Network (DHIN) was released for physician use
at the end of March. This smooth and successful implementation
provides access to clinical information from the major healthcare
organizations and key clinical systems in the state. Phase
One of this three-phase project required the implementation
of a Master Community Index and interfaces into hospital-lab,
reference-lab, pathology, and radiology systems of the data
contributors. Medicity is currently receiving 85% of laboratory
testing and 81% of hospital admissions for all of Delaware.
In the next phase, the network will
bring in laboratory data from smaller independent labs and
pathology and radiology transcription results from other healthcare
organizations in the state. The second phase of DHIN implementation
will include aggregating data from additional hospitals, including
the VA; establishing a complete statewide Master Community
Index; and deploying a Record Locator pointer system to track
where all data is housed. Phase Two is projected for completion
in mid-2008.
For more information, read the press
coverage.
The following message
was from Robert White,
Chair, DHIN Board of Directors:
Dear DHIN Board of Directors,
Committee Members and Interested Friends:
I am very pleased to let you know that the DHIN data senders
-- Bayhealth Medical Center, Beebe Medical Center and Christiana
Care Health System--went live in production on March 29th.
Data has been flowing for over 24 hours and the system is
working beautifully! LabCorp will come live on Monday.
A very big thank you to the project managers at each of the
hospitals and LabCorp and their interface and testing teams;
to the Medicity team for their dedication to making DHIN a
success; and to John Snow, Inc. for their dedication and leadership
in the testing process! We owe the DHIN Project Management
Team a debt of gratitude for their time, effort and expertise
in making the system a success.
The pilot physician practices were trained this afternoon
and we received excellent feedback from them. They were very
pleased with how easy the system is to use and they are very
excited about how efficient it will make their practices.
One practice manager noted that she and her staff spend a
good portion of the day tracking down results. Having them
all in one place and in one format through DHIN will be a
great benefit to them.
Over the next 2 weeks the team will continue to monitor the
production interfaces, train the physician practices at their
office locations and finalize validation testing.
We will keep you posted on our progress.
Thank you for all of your support. It has been a long time
coming but we can officially call ourselves "The First
Statewide Health Information Exchange in the Country"!
Sincerely,
Rob White
Chair, DHIN Board of Directors
Medicity Product
Suite Gets Visibility at
MEDITECH User Conference
Medicity attended the MUSE
conference in San Diego, May 29 to June 1. Company representatives
used the opportunity to demonstrate the ProAccess PCS product
suite and its associated MediTrust platform. Medicity discussed
the suite’s benefits for MEDITECH hospitals while answering
questions about the company’s full offering of products
and services.
Gerald Greeley, Director of Information
Services at Winchester Hospital—an organization in the
process of implementing Medicity’s product—spoke
to conference attendees under the title “Strategies
in Physician Connectivity and EMR Integration.”
His remarks emphasized the importance of physician access
to hospital information in an outpatient setting. He discussed
the impact on adoption at Winchester of offering physicians
the option to receive electronic patient data into their EMR
systems.
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Memorial Hospital
Signs On for Medicity’s
Interoperability Solution
Memorial Hospital announced completion
of a contract for the implementation of Medicity’s MediTrust
interoperability platform and ProAccess clinical application
suite. The platform will stage patient information from hospital
systems—MEDITECH HIS, PACS, EKGs, and document images—in
its patient-centric, electronic health record for distribution
to the practices of the hospital’s medical staff. The
hospital—a 313-bed acute care facility in Belleville,
Illinois—will leverage the ProAccess suite to offer
its physicians options for electronic access to patient data,
including web, fax, and dedicated printer.
Later phases of the implementation will
include access to clinical data through handheld devices and
integration with office EMRs via the Medicity EMR Gateway.
Read
the press release.
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EMR Gateway Signs
on Companion Technologies
Companion Technologies, a major EMR
vendor, has been added to the Medicity EMR portfolio. Now
lab data coming back to a provider can be routed directly
into the Companion EMR using Medicity’s EMR Gateway
technology.
Many of the largest EMR vendors are
using Medicity web parts to add true electronic lab ordering
and resulting into their EMR systems. Both Medicity’s
ProAccess clinical applications and the physician application
Medicity built for its national lab partner use the EMR Gateway.
Medicity’s EMR Gateway enables
distribution of results to a physician’s office by printed
report, fax, web portal, or by creating orders from and delivering
results to the physician’s EMR. More information is
available on the Medicity
website.
CalRHIO Selects
Medicity to Operate RHIO Solution
The month of April became a benchmark
month when CalRHIO accepted Medicity and Perot’s bid
to operate its RHIO solution. The bidding process included
many of the major players in the marketplace—a “who’s
who” list of competitors.
The CalRHIO project—which will
have a five-year rollout—is estimated at $300M and is
the most significant RHIO project currently underway in the
country. Medicity will keep you updated with news on progress
throughout the project.
Read
the press release.
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