Public Health Reporting Eased with Orion Health Technology
Orion Health announces a new platform to implement electronic health reporting for public health authorities, the Rhapsody™ Public Health Integrator platform, which enables public health authorities to provide a report processing and integration software component to hospitals, laboratories, and clinics in their region.
2009 CSTE Annual Conference, Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) June 8, 2009
Orion Health Inc. (http://www. orionhealth. com/), is pleased to announce a new platform to implement electronic health reporting for public health authorities. The Rhapsody™ Public Health Integrator platform was announced today at the 2009 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Conference (http://www. cste. org/dnn/) (CSTE) (http://www. cste. org/dnn/ (http://www. cste. org/dnn/)); it enables public health authorities to provide a report processing and integration software component to hospitals, laboratories, and clinics in their region.
Automating the collection and reporting of public health information helps healthcare workers along the continuum; from physician to health agency. It allows them to better manage regulated reporting requirements which consume critical resources. The accuracy and timeliness of data reporting is greatly increased, allowing for faster detection and responses to potential health crises, like a flu pandemic.
As part of the effort to simplify the implementation and reporting process for health providers, Orion Health is partnering with OntoReason (http://www. ontoreason. com/) (http://www. ontoreason. com/ (http://www. ontoreason. com/)), a public health informatics software and services group, providing "off the shelf" business rules and reasoning, further automating the conveyance of health information for the mandated 85 reportable conditions required by law.
The Mississippi State Department of Health is in the process of implementing 70 Rhapsody Public Health Integrator platforms in hospitals and healthcare providers across the state.
Joe Surkin, Director NEDSS/PHIN at Mississippi DOH says "We expect to see a significant increase in the timeliness and accuracy of data collected. By automating this reporting process, we will be able to eliminate the heavy burden of manual reporting by health care providers and better respond to the health needs of our state's residents."
Orion Health President of North America and EMEA Operations Paul Viskovich, sees this as a step toward the greater use of new and emerging electronic, standards-based messaging of public health reports, replacing traditional paper-based reporting.
"Despite millions spent, public health reporting still often means the manual extraction of data. Electronic reporting promises to revolutionize public health with complete and accurate reporting in near real time. Our data indicates that when you manually extract health information organizations see about a five-fold increase in cases reported," Viskovich concludes.
Rhapsody's Public Health Integrator provides facilities with secure connections using Public Health information Network (PHIN) approved tools and offers the ability to include connection to the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) and other future public health services as these are developed and certified. The Public Health Integrator can be easily deployed on a blade server, requiring minimal technical knowledge or ongoing maintenance. Additional reporting types can be added with minimal effort.
Orion Health solutions use standards-based technology to integrate data within a facility and external partners without incurring costly rip and replace approaches. Currently the company helps facilities and healthcare communities that connect 35 million patients with tens of thousands of active users.
CSTE is a professional association of over 1050 public health epidemiologists working in states, local health agencies, and territories.
About OntoReason
OntoReason, LLC is a privately held software and informatics company with offices in Midvale Utah, Sacramento California, and Phoenix Arizona. OntoReason was created to enable a paradigm shift in health solutions by merging the state of the art medical informatics, knowledge-oriented computing, and service oriented application architecture development into an evolutionary approach to building information systems.
About Rhapsody™ Public Health Integrator
Rhapsody Public Health Integrator (PHI) provides the ability to automate reporting with fast, secure transmission to public health agencies, HIEs, RHIOs, and other trading partners. Messages from hospital or laboratory systems are routed to the Public Health Integrator, which filters and maps the data, as required, before providing secure transmission. Data sent from the Public Health Integrator would adhere to national standards already established or under development (e. g. HL7 ELR messages, public health case report, BioSense minimum data set, etc.).
About Orion Health
Orion Health is a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector. Orion Health's easy-to-use solutions and applications improve patient care and clinical decision making by providing integrated health data in a single, unified view. By enhancing existing healthcare information systems, Orion Health's Rhapsody™ Integration Engine, Concerto™ Physician Portal, and workflow solutions provide healthcare workers with easy access to patient data and trends, and reduce errors and omissions by streamlining information transfer.
Worldwide, Orion Health implements health information communities involving over 35 million patients with tens of thousands of active users including Spain's IB Salut, Maine's HealthInfoNet and the Vermont Health Information Exchange. Orion Health's partners include leading health system integrators and IT vendors such as Accenture, IBM, Oracle, Sierra Systems and others. Orion Health has more than 1,000 clients around the world, including Lahey Clinic, several of the U. K.'s NHS Trust Hospitals, UCLA Medical Center, and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More information can be found at http://www. orionhealth. com (http://www. orionhealth. com).
Concerto and Rhapsody are registered trademarks of Orion Health and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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