CareSpark Selects Wellogic to Provide Unified View of Patient Electronic Medical Records Across Central Appalachian Region
Posted on: Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 09:01 CST
Wellogic, a physician portal and electronic medical records software company, today announced that CareSpark, a non-profit regional health information organization (RHIO) serving Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, has selected Wellogic® Consult as its physician portal. The award-winning solution will provide a unified view of patient data exchanged via CareSpark's health information exchange and connected electronic health records systems. In so doing, Wellogic joins companies like ActiveHealth Management, AllScripts, CGI, Cisco Systems, Dell, GE Healthcare, Intel, Initiate Systems, Misys, Quovadx, Oracle, Siemens Medical Solutions and others in the CareSpark Consortium.
CareSpark has chosen Wellogic's Consult physician portal solution to give its community of providers access to unified patient charts across participating organizations and to enable community-wide workflows and messaging. In keeping with CareSpark's commitment to the use of an interoperable architecture as defined by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), this Wellogic deployment will federate access to patient information via IHE-compatible electronic medical records and electronic health records systems, while also utilizing more traditional interfaces to connect to those not yet IHE-enabled. Consult itself will facilitate participation and enhance workflow for the majority of medical practitioners in the community, many of whom do not yet use an electronic medical record or electronic health record system.
"CareSpark has made much progress in building a collaborative effort to improve health outcomes and efficiencies in care delivery in our region," said Liesa Jenkins, CareSpark's executive director. "Wellogic is an excellent partner for us not only because of the flexibility of their architecture and readiness to conform to IHE standards, but more importantly, their long-range vision and their experience in working with physicians and communities as a true partner. Through their responsiveness to our needs and their willingness to work with us to reach our goals, Wellogic has demonstrated their commitment to our success--making them a stand-out in the healthcare information technology marketplace."
Wellogic adds CareSpark to its growing list of physician portal and health information exchange clients, in particular the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative and Richmond's MedVirginia, a recipient--along with CareSpark and several other communities--of a federal contract for trial implementations of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). Wellogic provides these clients with a range of components to support their health information exchange infrastructures, as well as physician portal, patient portal, care management, and electronic medical records solutions.
"We are proud to welcome CareSpark as a partner to Wellogic. We share a vision for improving care delivery through secure access to patient electronic medical records regardless of care venue," said Wellogic president and CEO Sumit Nagpal. "We are committed to leveraging this information to better enable clinicians and patients to develop and follow a care plan. And we are equally determined to establish a foundation to leverage this information for clinical decision support and population-based analytics over time, and to connect with other communities, as we will demonstrate by participating with CareSpark's NHIN trial implementation."
About CareSpark
CareSpark is working to improve health in the Central Appalachian Region through the collaborative use of health information. The CareSpark region includes 17 counties in the Tri-Cities Tennessee and Virginia area with approximately 18 hospitals, 1,200 physicians and 750,000 residents. CareSpark is developing a secure network that allows physician offices, hospitals, public health departments, pharmacies, laboratories and imaging centers to communicate electronically in order to improve patient care and safety and to reduce costs. For more information, visit www.carespark.com.
About Wellogic
Wellogic provides clinical solutions for connecting the healthcare community. With more than a decade of experience providing interoperability solutions for healthcare, the company truly understands its complexity. It has developed a depth of experience in solving some of the most challenging issues confronting the industry today. Wellogic's award-winning Web-based connectivity solutions for physicians and caregivers, patients, health systems and health information exchanges are consistently recognized as the most usable, flexible and scalable products available, and are used daily to deliver safer, more cost effective care for millions of patients. For more information, visit www.wellogic.com.
Source: Business Wire
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