| Bay
Area Community Informatics Agency Selects
Medicity’s Clinical Integration Platform
Salt
Lake City, UT and COOS BAY, OR,
February 20, 2007—Medicity, Inc., a leading
provider of eHealth solutions, with Bay Area Community
Informatics Agency (BACIA), an emerging regional health
information exchange of rural Oregon Coast healthcare
organizations, announce the selection of Medicity’s
MediTrust interoperability platform and ProAccess
clinical application suite as BACIA’s clinical
integration infrastructure for its health information
exchange initiative.
“We have made
significant strides toward a complete clinical record
for our citizens along the rural Oregon coast,”
explains Bob Adams, Information Services Manager for
Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Oregon. “Our
stakeholders—including eight health care organizations
in the region—have reached remarkable consensus
on strategy. The next steps are contracting with Medicity
and beginning the implementation later this year,”
continues Adams.
Dr. Jeffery Givens
of North Bend Medical Center adds, “Medicity’s
solution will give us the optimum infrastructure for
accomplishing our mission, which is to promote the
electronic exchange of data between health care organizations
in order to provide caregivers accurate and up-to-date
information. Many of our members are acquiring EMRs
and other clinical information systems. We intend
to utilize Medicity’s MediTrust clinical interoperability
platform and ProAccess clinical applications to allow
each organization in BACIA to contribute and share
clinical information across the full continuum of
care in our service area.”
“BACIA is a model partner for
us,” emphasizes Kipp Lassetter, Medicity’s
CEO. “They have taken the lead in organizing
one of the first regional electronic health record
initiatives of its kind, with the wide variety of
healthcare providers that have agreed to participate.
We are excited about providing the software platform
and expertise to make their vision a reality, and
we are confident that patient safety and efficiency
of care will be greatly improved as a result of connecting
this community.”
Medicity has been widely recognized
for its software product line which manages the complex
issues of clinical data integration between legacy
systems within a healthcare enterprise and amongst
the diverse clinical data sources found in the broader
community. The complete Medicity product offering
includes both software infrastructure and application
components.
About Medicity
Medicity, Inc. is a clinical integration and interoperability
company serving hospitals, large physician groups,
RHIOs/HIEs, and payors. Company clients include thousands
of 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
About
Bay Area Community Informatics Agency
The Bay Area Community Informatics Agency (BACIA)
is a recipient of an Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ) Planning Grant and represents a
consortium of rural Oregon Coast healthcare organizations
that wish to implement health information technology.
They recognize the need for efficient and timely transmission
of patient data to achieve the goals of improving
safety and quality of care, reducing medical errors,
improving patient satisfaction with care, and obtaining
better outcomes in chronic disease management
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