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Florida Medical Affiliates (CFMA) Adopts Medicity
EHR for Clinical Integration and EMR Connectivity
Medicity’s ProAccess EHR
gives CFMA physicians a source of community-wide clinical
data and a choice of practice-appropriate EMR.
Salt Lake
City, UT, May 19, 2006—Medicity, Inc
announced Friday the selection of it’s ProAccess
electronic health record (EHR) to enable clinical
integration among Central Florida Medical Affiliates’
(CFMA) 1200 physician members. The solution will provide
physicians with community-wide access to clinical
data and secure clinical messaging—true clinical
integration. In the first phase physicians will have
access to reference lab results, including the ability
to place and track lab orders over the Internet.
“This EHR strategy leaves our
members free to choose the electronic medical record
(EMR) software appropriate for their practice,”
explains CFMA chief executive Robert Alexander, “and
it gives them options for connecting to a repository
of electronic clinical information from provider organizations
within the community—data that originates in
organizations outside the practice.”
Kipp Lassetter, Medicity’s
CEO and a former ER physician elaborates: “In
my experience, much of the clinical data necessary
for good care decisions originate outside the physician
practice. This is where Medicity’s EHR benefits
EMR users. It gives CFMA members the ability to efficiently
tap community sources for real-time patient information.”
He emphasizes, “Doctors love
the accelerated availability of data. And it’s
great for hospitals and other data publishers. They
have one interface with the IPA to manage instead
of hundreds of interfaces into physician EMR’s.”
The solution gives members a CFMA-branded
portal through which they can securely access all
IPA-sponsored or shared applications with a single
sign-on. ProAccess accommodates all types and formats
of clinical data, including data from organizations
like hospitals, imaging centers, long-term care facilities,
transcription services, and pathology labs. A ProAccess
web-based clinical viewing and ordering application
is available to authenticated users anywhere they
have an internet connection, supplementing EMR systems
that are not web-based and providing some functionality
to practices that have not yet invested in an EMR
system.
The ProAccess EHR benefits from Medicity’s
distributed community indexing solution (MPI) which
adjudicates patient, physician, and insurance plan
information arriving into the repository from disparate
systems to insure accurate matching and filing as
new information is acquired. Without an MPI, electronic
systems cannot reconcile different variations of a
name or records with divergent demographic information
coming from disparate systems, making electronic data
exchange clumsy and unworkable.
To further improve the quality of
master indexes, the CFMA solution will benefit from
demographic interfaces between practice applications,
where patient information is usually the most current,
and the EHR.
About Medicity
Medicity, Inc., serves the health care industry with
Web-based portal solutions, EHRs, and community-wide
patient indexing solutions for hospitals, payors and
large physician groups. The company serves more than
1200 health care organizations and has been connecting
healthcare since 1999. For more information please
visit www.medicity.com.
Contact: Brent Dover
bdover@medicity.com
(404) 403-3432
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