NASHVILLE, TN – February 4, 2010 – Informatics Corporation of America (ICA; www.icainformatics.com), provider of electronic solutions to hospitals, integrated delivery networks (IDNs), and health information exchanges (HIEs), today announced that it successfully tested its CareAlign™ systems interoperability at the 11th Annual Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon 2010 event in Chicago.
“This was ICA’s first year at Connectathon, and we are proud to have proven that the ICA solution performs at the highest level of industry standards, producing and receiving standards-based documents under stringent conditions,” says Jeff Cunningham, ICA’s chief technology and strategy officer. “We registered CareAlign™ for six different document profiles and tested successfully with 20+ vendors.”
From small electronic medical records (EMRs) to large personal health records (PHRs), whether large or small, and across multiple settings like Epic, Microsoft, and PACS systems such as GE PACS and AllScripts, CareAlign™ demonstrated interoperability by sending or receiving data and adding into aggregate clinical records — which included consumers or producers of clinical information across disparate clinical settings.
CareAlign provides a cutting-edge longitudinal patient record, workflow tools, and secure messaging that goes beyond compliance demands. ICA has installations in more than 40 hospitals and approximately 100 clinics providing support for data elements and sources such as diagnoses/problem lists, allergies, outpatient and inpatient medications, physicians, clinicians treating or have treated the patient, facility medical records, number and lab results, radiology reports, physician/transcriptions, notes, hospital discharge notes and summaries.
“The Connectathon helped to establish ICA as a player in the interoperability community by implementing IHE standards and interoperability rules,” Cunningham adds. “We are grateful to IHE for giving us the opportunity to test our interoperability in such a carefully organized and supervised environment and for promoting the adoption of IHE standards-based interoperability systems in commercially available healthcare IT systems.”
ICA will further demonstrate its advanced interoperability services at the Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition, March 1-4, 2010, in Atlanta, Ga.
About Informatics Corporation of America (ICA)
Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) was formed to take innovative technology developed by practicing clinicians and informatics professionals at Vanderbilt Medical Center to the broader healthcare market. ICA’s solution enables interoperability of existing hospital and clinic systems to deliver a comprehensive electronic health record and tools ranging from a physician portal to secure messaging to disease dashboards. By providing clinicians with a comprehensive longitudinal patient record, ICA empowers caregivers to make informed decisions at the point of care, helps healthcare enterprises achieve operational efficiencies, and facilitates patient care across multiple providers and settings. Visit www.icainformatics.com.
