mbrody wrote on Saturday, October 24, 2009:
I just returned from two days at a HIMSS conference in Atlantic City. While I was there I have the opportunity to look at a number of HIE’s that were exhibiting there. I had the opportunity to speak with about 5 HIE vendors and came away very impressed with one of the offerings for a number of reasons which I will enumerate.
First the HIE is based upon a single stack This means that development and progress of the stack is managed and co-ordinated.
Second, the software is fully functional and running in a live environment, with the ability to exchange lab orders, imaging results, CCD documents, and referrals.
Third it has the opportunity for collaberation between multidisciplinary teams built in. Multiple providers can log in simultaneously and look at a single medical record, including lab results and images, (the information is presented in a de-identified manner) and they physicans can discuss the case. This is a phenomenal tool for collabeation on patiemt care on experts who may be in geographically distinct locatins, and is also a phenomenal tool for teaching medical students and residents.
Fourth, the are very agressive and wish to have a strong presence in the US.
they have expressd an interest in collaberating with us to insure OpenEMR can plug into their HIE.
Finally they are willing to be agressive in their pricing structure.
Their US representative is based in NYC and I am planning on meeting with him again on Tuesday.
E-Prescribing is built into the HIE.
Oh and finally and I leave this for last because I do not know how much weight to put into this, but the US rep states that they are discussing making the code Open Source internally. I am not in a position to evaluate the validity of that statement. But even without that, I think this is wort looking at.
Michael