Healthcare IT News - March 2009 - (Page 16) 16 Healthcare IT News ■ March 2009 hoSpItalS & IdNs www.HealthcareITNews.com Hospitals aim to put data in one place By BernIe MonegaIn, Editor OREM, UT Hospitals, such as El Camino in California, are looking for ways to pull data from disparate systems into one place. The idea is to have patient data at the physician’s fingertips. – The market for bringing healthcare data from disparate sources into one view is growing by leaps, according to a new study from KLAS, a healthcare research firm based in Orem, Utah. The study notes that software giant Microsoft is rapidly expanding its footprint in what KLAS calls an emerging aggregation market. Hospital information technology teams are turning to the aggregation of data to help frustrated clinicians, KLAS researchers say. “In most cases, providers are choosing these solutions to put all relevant patient information at a doctor’s fingertips,” said Jeremy Bikman, executive vice president of research and strategy for KLAS. “However, other benefits like meeting reporting requirements, avoiding downtime and accessing infor- The merger of Allscripts and Misys has created the new Allscripts “Without Allscripts, I would not be a happy doctor right now.” - Dr. Gregory Oliver, Oliver Family Healthcare Wish your technology made you feel this good? It can. Find out why 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals and thousands of other healthcare providers in clinics, post-acute care facilities and homecare agencies trust solutions from Allscripts to automate their clinical and business operations and Connect to Health™. Whatever your need may be, we have the solution: › › › › › › › › › Electronic Health Records Electronic Prescribing Practice Management Revenue Cycle Management Document Management Care Management Emergency Department Information Systems Homecare Automation Medication Services mation across care venues are also proving to be decision drivers.” El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif. uses Microsoft’s Amalga technology to pull its data together. “Amalga allows us to quickly collect, view and analyze data of any type, giving us unprecedented insight into the hospital’s performance and greater opportunity to innovate for improved quality,” said Eric Pifer, MD, chief medical information officer at the hospital. KLAS researchers discuss aggregation solutions, which provide a single view of clinical data from disconnected systems in a new report, “Beyond the CIS: Why are hospitals buying aggregation solutions?” The report examines why healthcare providers are deploying aggregation solutions, whether those solutions are meeting expectations and which aggregation vendors are doing the best job delivering on the promised benefits. The report profiles six leading vendors in the aggregation solution market - Carefx, dbMotion, Medicity, MEDSEEK, Microsoft and PatientKeeper - which together account for 85 contracted deployments. MEDSEEK enjoys the largest installed base among those 85 organizations, as well as the highest KLAS performance rating. From a purely functional standpoint, dbMotion and Microsoft appear to be in one peer group, while Carefx, Medicity, MEDSEEK and PatientKeeper comprise another group, according to KLAS. Microsoft and dbMotion market platforms that are meant to replicate the databases from dozens of systems, nearly 100 for some healthcare organizations. The other vendors have shown the ability to connect with a handful of primary and secondary systems, but have found challenges in branching out much further, KLAS reports. ■ More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: Data 0309 l oCHSner Continued from page 15 attached to a patient, making the patient’s health information available whenever and wherever the patients are present for care. Ochsner selected IMPAX Data Center in 2008 to consolidate data from disparate multi-vendor Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and clinical systems from its seven hospitals and 35 health clinics onto a single point of storage. Before the system was installed, Ochsner had to consolidate imaging data from multiple vendor PACS solutions in separate locations and departments, including images from radiology, cardiology, obstetrics, ophthalmology, and endoscopy systems. ■ More at HealthcareITnews.com e Connect: ocHSNer 0309 l Learn more at : www.allscripts.com/connect2health http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.allscripts.com/connect2health http://www.HealthcareITnews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/hospitals-aim-put-data-one-place http://www.HealthcareITnews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ochsner-centralizes-image-storage http://www.allscripts.com/connect2health
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