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InterSystems Data Integration Solutions for Reference Labs

HealthShare Health Connect

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Streamline EHR-LIS Connectivity, Expand Electronic Ordering and Reporting Support, Increase Competitive Differentiation

The Challenge: Reducing EHR Integration Cost and Complexity

Reference labs are implementing electronic ordering and reporting processes to accelerate the pace of business and avoid communications errors and reporting mix ups. By digitizing lab orders you can speed up workflows, improve visibility, and ensure specimens and results are always tied to the right patients.

Digital ordering and reporting can help your company gain a competitive advantage and increase market share. This is done by eliminating manually intensive and time-consuming paper-based processes thus providing faster results and better patient service. Without the right partner, it is no easy task to seamlessly exchange data between your clients’ electronic health records (EHR) and your laboratory information system (LIS).

Each client has a unique EHR system with distinct APIs and data formats. Connecting disparate EHR systems to an LIS solution, and unifying patient records can be a costly, complex, and drawn-out undertaking that diverts valuable technical staff from other important business activities.

Most labs lack the resources and budget to connect to each and every client EHR system individually. As a result, many reference labs only integrate with their largest clients and fail to realize the full potential of digital transformation.

Interoperability Challenges Impair Electronic Ordering and Reporting - Distinct Interfaces and Integration Effort per EHR diagram

The Solution: Streamline Data Integration Efforts, Accelerates Digital Transformation, and Expands Business Potential

InterSystems HealthShare® Health Connect is a high-performance, highly available, data integration engine that seamlessly handles healthcare data connectivity at massive scale. The solution breaks down interoperability barriers, letting you connect your LIS to any EHR system quickly, easily, and securely through a single interface. InterSystems HealthShare Unified Care Record unifies, merges, and deduplicates patient records from different sources, providing a consolidated view of patient information. The solution makes it easy to determine that lab orders from different hospitals and health systems are all associated with the appropriate patient. Once digitized, you can quickly compare test results to identify potential specimen integrity issues, mislabeling errors, or significant changes between tests that may require clinician attention.

With Health Connect you can efficiently and cost-effectively extend electronic ordering and reporting to almost any client. The solution supports a wide range of contemporary and legacy healthcare information protocols and standards, and includes easy-to-use portals and tools for interface engineers and application developers. All this is backed by InterSystems acclaimed customer support organization. Our experienced implementation partners will help you fast-track development and integration activities, free up internal resources, and accelerate time-to-value even further.

Interoperability Challenges Impair Electronic Ordering and Reporting - Single Interface with InterSystems Health Connect Integration  - diagram

Key Health Connect Features and Capabilities

  • Guaranteed message delivery
  • Strong security (at rest and in motion)
  • Automate common tasks
  • Pre-built transformations for common data formats
  • Easy to deploy, use, grow and maintain

Flexible Deployment Models

You can deploy Health Connect on-premises, in a public cloud, or as a cloud service, designed, installed, and operated by InterSystems experts. With the InterSystems HealthShare® Health Connect Cloud™ managed service offering you gain the agility and pay-as-you-grow scalability benefits of the cloud along with the operational simplicity and peace-of-mind that comes with a fully managed service.

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Key Benefits

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Increase electronic ordering and reporting to increase differentiation
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Reduce delays and inaccuracies
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Eliminate manually intensive, paper-based processes
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Ensure high performance, availability, and security for electronic transactions
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Increase value added of development resources

Summary

Globally, more than one billion health records are managed by solutions built on InterSystems technology. Health Connect can help you streamline EHR-LIS connectivity, expand electronic ordering and reporting, and grow your business. A leader in interoperability for over 45 years, InterSystems has a long history of integrating different healthcare technologies. We have the products and expertise to help you overcome the most complex healthcare integration and development challenges. InterSystems technology is recognized by top industry analysts: like Gartner®, Forrester®, and KLAS®, and is we are highly rated by customers on popular technology review platforms like such as Gartner Peer Insights™.

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