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Healthvision Announces the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Interoperability Solution (Version 1.1) at Yale New Haven Health System

Posted on: Tuesday, 8 August 2006, 15:00 CDT

Yale New Haven Health System Will Use Solution to Connect EMR Application Into Existing e-Health Interoperability Exchange(TM)

Healthvision, a leading health information technology company, announces the implementation of the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Interoperability Solution, version 1.1 at Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS). This innovative solution brings important connectivity features and functionality to healthcare organizations that are creating Connected Healthcare Communities across the United States. This release of EMR Interoperability adds key integration functionality, including support of Continuity of Care Record (CCR) data standards, to health information exchange (HIE) organizations, including health systems and regional health information organizations (RHIOs). The solution enables physicians and other care providers to share clinical patient information among the many stakeholder groups across the continuum of care.

Yale New Haven Health System will use Healthvision's EMR Interoperability Solution to connect their physicians' EMR application with their existing e-Health Interoperability Exchange run by Healthvision. Healthvision's e-Health Interoperability Exchange provides the overall technology architecture to support the transmission, collection, transformation and storage of data essential to a Connected Healthcare Community, and connects all of the stakeholders in the care delivery process. The new release allows YNHHS to send patient summary data, formatted within CCR standards, lab and radiology results, discharge summaries and transcribed reports to physicians using the system or directly into the physician's EMR.

"Healthvision's e-Health Interoperability Exchange has helped Yale New Haven Health System provide critical and timely patient health information to affiliated physicians for six years," said Scott Decker, president and CEO of Healthvision. "The rollout of the new release will help enhance the functionality of Yale New Haven's existing technology platform by integrating key ambulatory information from the existing EMR application."

"At all of the Yale New Haven Health hospitals, we continually look for ways to increase the quality and safety of patient care," said Mark Andersen, Senior Vice President and CIO of Yale New Haven Health System. "The addition of the EMR Interoperability Solution will help improve patient care and safety by ensuring physicians both at the hospital and in community offices have the most up-to-date medical records and key clinical information about patients in their care."

About Healthvision

Healthvision creates Connected Healthcare Communities by helping leading healthcare organizations effectively develop functional healthcare information exchange (HIE) entities. Healthvision's market leading, Internet-based e-Health Interoperability Exchange(TM) facilitates the secure exchange of clinical patient information, and currently hosts over 10 million unique patient records.

More than 350 healthcare organizations have chosen Healthvision's solutions for the secure and timely communication of clinical information among key stakeholder groups, including 40,000 clinicians and millions of consumers and patients. Healthvision was established in 1999 and is a privately held company. For more information, visit www.healthvision.com.

About Yale New Haven Health System

Yale New Haven Health System - the largest and most comprehensive integrated health care delivery system in Connecticut - is recognized for advanced clinical care, quality, service, cost effectiveness and commitment to improving the health status of the communities its members serve. Reaching even beyond Connecticut to those living in eastern New York and southwestern Rhode Island, Yale New Haven Health is committed to making the best health care easier to use. See www.yalenewhavenhealth.org for additional information.

Source: Business Wire

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