University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Selects EMPI Software From Initiate Systems
Initiate Systems Inc., the recognized standard in enterprise master person index (EMPI) software in the healthcare industry, today announced that the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is replacing its existing EMPI solution with Initiate Identity Hub™ software to help facilitate interoperability across its many disparate systems and to provide interactive delivery of patient information. UPMC will deploy Initiate Identity Hub™ software in its efforts to enhance patient care and ensure that patients are connected to their accurate medical histories while streamlining administrative processes.
“We want to provide our doctors and clinicians with access to the most complete and accurate patient data. To accomplish this, we need a real-time EMPI solution that works across our integrated network of hospitals, physician practices, other care sites and a health plan,” said Paul Sikora, UPMC vice president of information technology transformation. “Initiate Systems was the only vendor that could scale to meet our increasingly demanding needs for accurate patient identification, reduction of data duplication, and interoperability with other systems.”
UPMC, which has been named one of the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems in the United States by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine for eight consecutive years, is the premier health system in western Pennsylvania and one of the most renowned academic medical centers in the country. The health system is composed of 19 hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctor’s offices, retirement and long-term care facilities, an insurance plan and international ventures.
In addition to accurately consolidating patient data from dozens of source systems, UPMC desired an EMPI offering that could be rapidly deployed with no disruption to existing processes, and could leverage its investment in dbMotion’s medical informatics solution. UPMC recently partnered with dbMotion, an award-winning provider of Web-based data-sharing and integration technology, in an $84 million initiative to create one of the largest models of true interoperability in healthcare.
“UPMC already understood the benefits of an EMPI solution. It was looking for a partner that could address its technology requirements and help meet current and future business objectives,” said Scott Harper, senior vice president and general manager, healthcare practice, Initiate Systems. “UPMC is one of the most prestigious healthcare organizations in the country, and working with them is further validation that Initiate Systems is the most advanced EMPI offering on the market.”
Initiate Systems provides software and services for healthcare organizations that want to deliver a comprehensive view of each patient in real time to all points of service. Initiate Identity Hub™ software is the most accurate, scalable and rapidly implemented EMPI solution available for healthcare providers, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), independent physicians associations and regional health information organizations (RHIOs), that want to improve patient identification and customer satisfaction, protect data privacy and security, enable interoperability and provide a critical foundation for EHR implementations. Initiate™ software and InitiateSM services enable strategic initiatives that allow healthcare organizations to improve patient safety and care, provide new services and ensure regulatory compliance.
For more information on Initiate Systems, visit www.initiatesystems.com.
About Initiate Systems
Initiate Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of customer-centric master data management solutions for companies and government agencies that want to create the most complete, real-time views of people, households and organizations from data dispersed across multiple application systems and databases. Initiate Identity Hub™ software is more accurate, scalable, rapidly deployed and widely used than any other solution. Many organizations in the financial services, government, healthcare, hospitality and retail sectors are using Initiate™ software to deliver the right data at the right time to all critical touch points. Initiate Systems’ proven experience makes it uniquely qualified to enable strategic initiatives that allow organizations to increase revenue and efficiency and reduce operating costs and risks. Initiate Systems operates globally through its subsidiaries, with corporate headquarters in Chicago and offices across the U.S., a Canadian office in Toronto, an EMEA office in London and a Pacific Rim office in Sydney.