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HMS Showcases Interoperability in IHE North American Connectathon
Jan 27, 2010 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Healthcare Management Systems (HMS), a health information technology provider for community hospitals, reported it completed all of its defined goals at the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) North American Connectathon event in Chicago last week.
"We successfully tested critical IHE profiles needed to run a health information exchange," said Jeff Givens, product manager for interoperability at HMS. "During the five-day Connectathon, systems exchanged information with complementary systems from multiple vendors, performing all of the transactions required for the roles selected, in support of defined clinical-use cases."
The IHE Connectathon is a North American healthcare IT industry interoperability testing event. Companies participated in a variety of tests to determine how well their systems conform to IHE integration profiles and share patient information with complementary systems. HMS demonstrated interoperability with all healthcare IT vendors with which it exchanged information with during tests in which it was involved.
IHE is an initiative by the healthcare industry and its professionals to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. It promotes the coordinated use of established standards to address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care.
"The Connectathon is a great way to demonstrate interoperability," said Givens. "HMS is the enterprise-wide technology solution for more than 600 community hospitals. Our interoperability is a strength as customers move toward achieving meaningful use and actively exchange information with other providers in their communities.
The vendors with which HMS demonstrated interoperability included Alert, Metavante, CPSI, Siemens, Athena, Corepoint Health, Nextgen, Karos, Misys, IBM, GE, Spirit, Oracle, Sage, Karos, Allscripts, eMDs, Medquist, EMC, EBMtech, MIE, Microsoft, CareEvolution, QuadraMed2 and Initiate.
HMS said it will also participate in the interoperability showcase at HIMSS 2010 March 1-4 in Atlanta.
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