| Winchester
Hospital Selects Medicity’s Clinical Integration
Platform for Physician Connectivity
Medicity Will
Deploy Its EMR Gateway and Data Staging Infrastructure
to Give Physicians Options for Accessing Consolidated
Patient Clinical Information
Salt Lake City, UT,
Medicity, Inc., will deploy its Clinical Integration
Platform to collect and distribute electronic clinical
data from Winchester Hospital to its physician constituencies.
The Medicity platform—which includes a Data
Staging Infrastructure, Community Master Patient Index,
Physician Portal and EMR Gateway solution—delivers
complete patient information that is vital for making
care decisions. Winchester Hospital’s deployment
will include laboratory results, pathology results,
medication histories, radiology reads, transcriptions,
and other patient data.
Medicity’s integration solution
is tailored to meet the delivery needs of every physician
regardless of the level of office technology adoption.
The system gives physician offices options for how
they will receive clinical data. For example, the
Clinical Integration Platform includes a web-native
viewing application (the Provider Portal) that makes
data accessible using a standard web browser from
any Internet-connected computer. Practices that have
invested in office EMRs can request an electronic
feed of patient results via the web-services technology
of Medicity’s EMR Gateway. For those who prefer
paper, new patient results can be sent to a fax machine
or an office printer.
To gather disparate patient data
into a single longitudinal record, Winchester Hospital
will utilize Medicity’s Community Master Patient
Index, which ensures that incoming patient results
are accurately tied to the patient’s historical
record. This indexing will be critical in seamlessly
integrating data from Winchester Hospital into physician-office
EMR applications.
Winchester Hospital will also employ
this new information infrastructure to enable outreach
objectives for both imaging and laboratory services.
The Clinical Integration Platform will support outpatient
orders for several hospital services. Physicians will
be able to initiate orders via the Provider Portal
or the office EMR. The convenience to physicians gives
practices incentive to use the hospital facilities
for outpatient testing and imaging.
“Winchester Hospital is committed
to the highest standards of patient care,” says
Gerald Greeley, CIO of Winchester Hospital. “When
we decided to move forward with this initiative, management
elected to invest in more than portal technology.
Our selection committee chose Medicity’s clinical
interoperability platform as a foundation for future
projects involving clinical data analysis, publication,
and community information exchange—such things
as outcomes analysis, pay-for-performance initiatives,
and public health reporting—to name just a few.”
The project will begin in the first
quarter of 2007 and offer user services before the
end of the calendar year.
Winchester Hospital is a 206-bed
hospital in the northeast Boston suburban area, serving
Winchester and surrounding communities with acute-care
inpatient services and integrated home care.
About Medicity
Medicity, Inc. is a clinical integration and interoperability
company serving hospitals, large physician groups,
and payors. Company clients include more than 2,000
healthcare organizations. It has been connecting Healthcare
since 1998. For more information please visit www.medicity.com.
Contact:
Courtney J. Lassetter
courtney@medicity.com
(801) 322-4444
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