Shared Health Implements IBM InfoSphere Software and Services
Posted on: Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 09:00 CDT
IBM has announced that Shared Health, a US-based health information exchange, has implemented IBM InfoSphere software and services to aid its newly-launched Clinical Xchange data exchange platform.
IBM claims that Shared Health Clinical Xchange, built on its information integration software, improves healthcare clinicians' access to clinical information, helping them operate efficiently and deliver better patient care. The IBM software enables a web-based system that supports patients by merging key clinical data with administrative data from numerous sources and formats.
IBM has said that information from Clinical Xchange can be accessed on demand in a secure manner by patients and healthcare providers. Whether a patient visits a primary care provider, specialist, or an emergency department, Shared Health makes this important patient information available to accelerate assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
According to IBM, Underpinning Clinical Xchange is the Shared Health Clinical Health Record, which maintains a comprehensive view of a patient's medical history, supported by Shared Health's data warehouse. These information resources are populated using the IBM InfoSphere Information Server software platform, creating a common metadata repository that helps Shared Health reuse information, ensure data governance and develop new services.
Information Server helps staff understand the structure, content and quality of data sources to uncover missing, inaccurate and inconsistent data at the start of each data integration project. Shared Health then collects, integrates and transforms data from its partners and makes it available to providers.
The IBM software also helps Shared Health standardize the format of data such as names, addresses and phone numbers while matching together data from across sources, to display a single complete record in a unified format regardless of the sources. Additionally, the software's common metadata foundation allows Shared Health to share information collaboratively between business analysts and code developers to reduce project cycles and improve business results.
The combination of IBM software and services supports Shared Health's use of information to improve patient care by combining and reconciling information from various applications and sources. Increased information flow helps to better incorporate disparate internal and external information sources, providing a seamless flow of information regardless of format, platform or location.
Source: Datamonitor
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