Why We’re Different

ICA: A Proven Leader in Healthcare Collaboration

ICA is more than just another health information technology (HIT) company selling “product” to hospitals and health systems. ICA is a leader in delivering healthcare solutions that enable transformation in a dynamically changing clinical landscape.

ICA’s CareAlign® interoperability and informatics platform addresses and solves data and communication challenges for healthcare organizations including hospitals, IPAs, IDNs, ACOs, HIEs, payers and others. CareAlign is designed to solve real organizational challenges in real time.

ICA Presence and Versatility:
Clients currently using CareAlign as their interoperability and informatics platform range from rural hospitals and clinics to large IDNs, ACOs and metropolitan areas across 24 geographies.

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The ICA Difference:
ICA’s CareAlign solution is simply the most advanced platform on the market today with broad applicability, extensive clinical depth, and modular, world class architecture. ICA strives to simplify complex concepts to make them actionable and deliver true return on investments for our clients.

Our Heritage Includes:

  • Deep roots in a uniquely clinical background since CareAlign evolved from informatics origins at Vanderbilt Medical Center
  • Unification of a wide range of information and support of the analytic needs associated with population health management, transitions of care communication, readmissions reduction and meaningful use requirements
  • Market-leading ICAetc, accessible to EMR, HIE and other HIT solution vendors to test their standards implementations
  • Innovative leveraging of IHE and Direct standards for clinical information sharing adopted by leading EMRs

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The CareAlign Solution Suite:

  • Facilitates patient-centered care across enterprises
  • Streamlines care processes within and across treatment settings
  • Improves population management via access to clinical data across the care continuum

 Timeline

2013
  • Slated to be one of the first vendors in the country to be certified for Direct as a founding member of DirectTrust
  • Announces partnerships to strengthen analytics and reporting capabilities across patient populations
  • Expands solution platform to combine interoperability and informatics to support of ACO-related initiatives
2012
  • Helps University of Texas at Austin launch the Health Information Exchange Lab
  • Provides Direct capabilities in six states and exchange services in 22 geographies across US
  • Recognized by KLAS as leader in bringing new technology to HIE marketplace
  • ICAetc expanded to include 45 vendors
2011
  • ICAetc (www.icaetc.com) provides an open testing center available at no charge to all healthcare system and HIE vendors to test their standards-based exchange capabilities
  • Restructured solution suite to align with evolving market direction with SaaS-based approach
2010
  • Formalized partnership to pursue statewide opportunities
  • Ranked by KLAS as one of the top four HIE providers in the US
  • Introduced standards-based platform to be embedded in existing EMR systems
2009
  • Expanded multi-community capabilities and care coordination tools
2008
  • Completed development of core HIE platform to support expansion beyond IDN market
2007
  • Signed first community health information exchange (HIE)
2006
  • Introduced first commercial version of software available for client use
  • Signed first IDN-based client
2005
  • Founded
  • Licensed Vanderbilt technology