Connecting Communities:

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Connecting Communities Clinical Data Exchange
with Physicians EMRs
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Forward Advantage

• MEDITECH solutions
• Data Express
• Communication Director
• Bed Ready for MEDITECH Bed Board
• im-one solutions (identity management)
• MDI (medical device integration)

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Data Express

• Data Express developed with MEDITECH
• HL7 data exchange with physicians ambulatory
  EMRs
• Part of MEDITECHs interoperability strategy
• Solution partnership provides advantages now and
  in the future
• Goals
• Simplify Complexity
• Deploy Rapidly
• Reduce Cost
• Provide Flexibility and Longevity
• Extend Your Resources

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Data Express

• Data Express the Economic Stimulus Package
• Promote adoption of interoperable health records
• Meaningful use electronic exchange of
  information
• Strengthen HIPAA Standards
• PHI disclosure audit trail

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Data Express
Hospital / Health System
Physician Offices
Lab Results
HL7 Results
ITS Results
HL7 Orders
And many other EMRs
Orders
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Data Express

• Simplify Complexity
• One-to-many solution
• Using national standards ? HL7 2.1-2.5
• Standardized set of MEDITECH interfaces
• Lab, Micro, Blood Bank, Path ITS
• Standard and tailored output formats
• Allscripts, NextGen, eClinicalWorks, many others
• Provide both HL7 data streaming (MLLP) and/or HL7
  file to a secure FTP site or network location

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Data Express

• Deploy Rapidly
• MEDITECH provides rapid delivery of interfaces
• Forward Advantage resources ? deploy now, dont
  wait to find time or delay other projects
• Configured to immediately
• receive HL7 results from MEDITECH
• send HL7 results in HL7 2.1-2.5 formats
• In minutes, send data to additional physicians
  once output format is in place
• MEDITECH and Forward Advantage team up to provide
  rapid response

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Data Express

• Reduce Cost
• MEDITECH Data Express results interfaces
  bundled pricing model
• Only one set of MEDITECH results interfaces
  (one-to-many model)
• Built-in routing capability based on physician
  profiles
• No per connection (per recipient) charges
• Deliver the same output format to as many
  recipients as desired!

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Data Express

• Provide Flexibility and Longevity
• Orders and ADT supported
• MEDITECHs streamlined approach to Orders
• Extend input/output formats as needed
• MEDITECH commitment to provide standards updates
  and market-driven updates
• Streamlined update process due to Forward
  Advantage relationship with MEDITECH
• MPI integration supported

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Data Express

• Extend Your Resources
• Supplement your internal resources
• Customer-acclaimed services and project expertise
• Keep your other projects on track
• Experience the advantage of our MEDITECH
  relationship
• Move your project forward quickly
• Meet your physicians demand for electronic
  exchange of information now

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Data Express

• Successful deployments
• Client/Server and MAGIC
• EMRs deployed and evaluated
• NextGen
• Allscripts
• GE Centricity
• eClinicalWorks
• Misys
• eMDs
• Wellogic
• Greenway
• And more

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Data Express Communication Director

• Shared Communication Director tools
• SAM (activity monitor/audit trail)
• Administration Tools
• Routing Database
• Data Express can be deployed on same or separate
  server

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Getting Ready

• Incorporate meaningful use into your Strategic
  Plans
• Identify physicians EMRs
• Interface specifications
• Direct HL7 feed (MLLP) or HL7 file import
• Evaluate connectivity
• Currently available or needs to be implemented?
• Important to test facility to physician/EMR
  connectivity (often different configuration than
  existing)
• Determine roll-out plan
• One practice/group
• Expand based on EMR vendor, physician priority,
  other
• Facility vs. physician cost

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QA
Questions?