Recent News: Happenings in the MEDITECH & Health IT Community

Corepoint Health Confirms Interoperability at the IHE North America Connectathon 2011

FRISCO, TX, February 16, 2011 -- Corepoint Health successfully completed interoperability certification testing of Corepoint Integration Engine at the North American Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Connectathon last month in Chicago.

These tests demonstrate Corepoint Health’s readiness to support Health Information Exchange (HIE) initiatives as hospitals and other providers construct outward-facing, community-oriented integration programs.

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A New Ordering Solution for Physicians

MEDITECH and Forward Advantage announce the availability of a streamlined ordering interface for physicians.

WESTWOOD, MA, February 15, 2011 -- Building on the successful deployment of results-reporting interfaces with Data Express, Forward Advantage and MEDITECH have expanded the Data Express offering to include electronic orders from physician practices to a hospital’s MEDITECH HCIS.

By adopting MEDITECH’s new streamlined orders model and Forward Advantage’s Data Express product, hospitals will benefit from a cost-effective and rapidly deployed solution for receiving orders from physician practices and communicating results to practices. Physicians will benefit from being able to view the results for these orders directly in their ambulatory EMRs.

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Summit Healthcare to Feature New Integration and Automation Tools at HIMSS Annual Conference

ORLANDO, FL, February 15, 2011 (HIMSS Booth #2080) -- Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and task automation, announced today that it will be showcasing upcoming versions of its Express Connect™ interface engine and InSync™ dictionary synchronization tool at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida from February 20 to 24, 2011.

Summit Healthcare will feature the upcoming version of its powerful interface engine, Summit Express Connect 9. The new model contains the Summit Apex Mapper (SAM), in addition to a structured query language (SQL) database available for all interface configuration settings, user security settings, application settings, user activity and mapping/filtering data.  Express Connect 9 also includes enhanced message logging and upgraded user security and audit trail tracking functionality.

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