Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and task automation, today announced that Boulder Community Hospital has successfully implemented Summit Healthcare’s integration tools to participate in the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization’s (CORHIO) Health Information Exchange (HIE). Boulder Community Hospital’s adoption of Summit’s Express Connect interface engine resulted in rapid, seamless integration with CORHIO and its HIE technology partner, Medicity. In its second phase of this implementation, Boulder Community Hospital will leverage Summit’s physician office integration tool, Provider Exchange, to deepen its collaboration with CORHIO.
“A major HIE integration project of this kind can be a very complex undertaking and it requires strong leadership and the right tools to be successful,” said Susan A. Clark, RHIA, Sr. Project Manager and Privacy Officer, CORHIO. “Boulder Community Hospital’s integration partner, Summit Healthcare, came to the project well-prepared. With their technology and deep MEDITECH integration experience, we were easily able to integrate Boulder Community Hospital’s systems with the Medicity platform.”
Boulder Community Hospital previously partnered with Summit Healthcare for its integration and automation services as the hospital underwent a MEDITECH 6.0 migration. When Boulder Community Hospital was embraced by CORHIO as a flagship adopter of its HIE services, the hospital’s experience with Summit Healthcare proved to be a valuable commodity.
“After working with Summit Healthcare on our successful MEDITECH 6.0 migration, we knew just where to turn to spearhead our efforts with CORHIO,” said Linda Minghella, Chief Information Officer, Boulder Community Hospital. “Summit Healthcare’s tools have made our path to integration with CORHIO fast, simple and cost-effective.”
Phase one of the integration enabled Boulder Community Hospital to quickly transmit data from MEDITECH systems via Summit Express Connect in five areas – admissions, lab and microbiology results, blood bank and pathology results, transcription reports and radiology reports – to CORHIO’s HIE partner, Medicity. Boulder Community Hospital will also take part in a second phase with CORHIO by implementing Summit Provider Exchange to facilitate bi-directional integration for orders and results with physician offices and clinics.
“Our experience working with Summit Healthcare to connect Boulder Community Hospital to CORHIO could not have been better,” said Chris Konen, HIE Program Director, Medicity. “Summit Healthcare’s suite of tools is well-suited for integrating with our technology platform. Not only was the Summit team very technically competent, they also understood the business drivers behind the HIE effort and were there whenever we needed them.”
Boulder Community Hospital is a locally owned and operated non-profit hospital system dedicated to meeting the constantly evolving health care needs of Boulder County residents. Boulder Community is known across Colorado for its clinical excellence in heart care, neurology, orthopedics and cancer care. Some 560 physicians in 48 medical specialties have privileges at BCH. BCH has MEDITECH as their primary healthcare information system.
"Health information exchanges are becoming mobilized rapidly," remarked Ted Rossi, CEO, Summit Healthcare. "We at Summit Healthcare are thoroughly excited that our toolsets are having an impact across the state of Colorado in communicating critical health information."
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About Summit Apex
The Summit Apex integrated product suite provides the MEDITECH industry with a comprehensive toolset for integration and automation needs and has quickly become the standard for streamlining efforts. From the interface management to data migration and dictionary maintenance efforts, the Summit Apex suite includes:
Summit Express Connect — a robust interface engine used by hospitals to maximize and streamline their interface landscape. Allows the ability to leverage existing interfaces and easily connect multiple 3rd party ancillary vendor systems.
Summit Provider Exchange — a scalable, secure solution that facilitates the integration of bi-directional patient data between the hospital and the EMR at the physician office or clinic.
Summit Scripting Toolkit — a full-featured workflow and task automation tool that also provides the means to extract and parse data, and is often used when conventional (HL7) methods to deliver data are not available.
Summit InSync — the market leading solution for dictionary maintenance accomplished through a powerful extraction, analysis and update process that ensures dictionaries are synchronized from test to live and across multiple facilities or platforms.
Summit Downtime Reporting System — ensures continuous access to critical patient data for clinicians at all times, to ensure quality of care and operational continuity in the event of MEDITECH or network downtime.
For our healthcare clients that do not have the resources to develop and manage interfaces internally, Summit Healthcare offers Integration Outsourcing Services as part of a complete integration package.
About Summit Healthcare
Summit Healthcare is the choice of hospitals and providers who want to take full control of their MEDITECH healthcare systems integration and information management requirements. Since 1999, we have worked to provide the industry with the most flexible integration technology with complimentary tailored services and solutions.
Summit Healthcare continues to grow and has over 1,000 customers in the healthcare market, including close partnerships with complementary technology partners, major system integrators, and value-added resellers. For more information, visit http://www.summit-healthcare.com or call 781-519-4840.