Recent News: Montana Exchange Begins Pulling Data Together

KALISPELL, MT, February 13, 2009 -- Northwest Healthcare, the largest participant in the Health Information Exchange of Montana (HIEM), has begun to aggregate data from all core clinical systems.

This implementation of technology developed by the Informatics Corporation of America (ICA) is the first phase in the initiative to integrate patient information across six hospitals and more than a dozen clinics. Deployment of ICA technology throughout the remaining hospitals and clinics is slated for completion by mid-2009.

The HIEM contracted with Nashville-based ICA in July 2008 for a single-source solution to consolidate patient data from existing clinical information systems in medical facilities throughout a 45,000 square-mile area in western Montana, with the goal of improving quality, reducing duplication of effort and facilitating communication across treatment settings.

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