Exempla Healthcare Hospitals to interface with the Kaiser ambulatory EMR - Colorado

Three hospitals in the system preparing to integrate and connect with Kaiser facilities, as they will more than likely be seeing a few of their patients. This process is being done through a 3rd party offering HL7 and other transformations such as text/HL7. This is taking 2 different medical records systems and forming a bridge to communicate with a secure connection over the web. BD

Novo is responsible for all integration development efforts. Novo’s experience includes dozens of EMR’s, HIS systems, EMS applications and even the ability to integrate into a paper based environment.

Multiple interface capabilities: Access via folder, TCP port, or other HL7, XML, PDF, text or other formats
Remote operational support: Install, customize, service and support
Ability to transform data: HL7 to HL7, HL7 to PDF, Text to HL7 Map, delete, replace, re-format
Data persistence: Stores locally for days, weeks, months Secure access, purge
Security: HTTP/S, PKI and symmetric key encryption Audit and notification
Connectivity: Push text, image, and other data Private, encrypted, secure Meets HIPAA requirements
Rules to process data based on context: Distribute, discard, notify
Facilities to learn over time: Associations, rules, behaviors

ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sep 29, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Novo Innovations, the leader in software-agent technologies to improve health information exchange, today announced a three-year agreement with Denver's Exempla Healthcare, a system of three hospitals and a network of clinics.

Exempla Healthcare has implemented Novo's agent-based healthcare exchange solution in all three of its hospitals, which will allow the organization to deliver patient data electronically to the ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) systems at affiliated physician practices. The data -- including facesheets, lab results and transcribed reports --populates the patient chart in the practice EMR within minutes of being available in the hospital system.

According to Dave Pecoraro, chief information officer of Exempla Healthcare, one of the organization's primary reasons for deploying the Novo Innovations system is to interface with the ambulatory EMR in use by Kaiser Permanente in Colorado. Both Exempla Healthcare and Kaiser Colorado expect to improve patient care and generate administrative efficiencies by connecting their respective EMRs.

Exempla Healthcare is also using the Novo system to reach practices without EMRs through Novo's "drop box" functionality, which enables practices with a PC and an Internet connection to securely receive patient data in minutes and in a format that reduces the cost and effort of handling paper.