Acute Care Facility Selected Summit Healthcare for its Deep Expertise in Integrating Systems and its Strong MEDITECH Client Base
Braintree, Mass.- Alice Hyde Medical Center has implemented technology from Summit Healthcare, a leader in healthcare system integration and task automation, to integrate its MEDHOST Emergency Department system with MEDITECH. Alice Hyde chose Summit Express Connect coupled with Summit Healthcare’s Outsourcing Services to give clinicians rapid access to critical patient data.
Alice Hyde Medical Center, a 76-bed acute care facility located in Malone, New York provides high-quality health care to the more than 45,000 residents in the North Country. The organization was looking to send its point to point interfaces through an engine so it could turn off redundant interfaces, leverage existing interfaces for other projects and utilize the alerting and monitoring features that an engine provides. Alice Hyde implemented Summit Express Connect, a robust interface engine used for both hospital and physician office EMR integration with 3rd party vendor systems. The company also contracted for Outsourcing Services for assistance in developing and managing interfaces.
“We were looking to quickly and cost-effectively leverage our existing interfaces and streamline information to all care givers, despite the fact that we were running two disparate systems,” said Joel Benware, chief information officer, Alice Hyde Medical Center. “The Summit Healthcare interface engine coupled with their professional services division allowed us to meet an aggressive deadline and stay within our budget. We look forward to a long partnership ahead with Summit Healthcare.”
By automating the sending of orders from MEDHOST to MEDITECH and orders statuses and results back to the ED for laboratory, microbiology, blood bank and radiology, Alice Hyde will be able to improve safety and quality of care for its patients. Clinical history and discrete data is also sent to MEDITECH to eliminate redundant data entry of patient data. In addition, sending ADT data to MEDHOST and billing data to MEDITECH from MEDHOST ensures accurate patient data and timely charging for services.
As part of Summit Healthcare’s Outsourcing Services, existing point-to-point interfaces were analyzed by the Summit Healthcare team, enabling them to leverage interfaces for multiple purposes. The Summit Express Connect interface engine enabled Alice Hyde to turn off redundant interfaces and save money on maintenance costs. In addition, some of these interfaces were used as part of the MEDHOST integration, saving the organization the cost of purchasing new interfaces. A dedicated Summit Healthcare engineer assigned to Alice Hyde communicates with the vendors of the 3rd party systems and also handles interface development by providing all the filters and mapping needed for every one of the interfaces.
“Our technology, coupled with our outsourcing services, truly provides the ‘one-two punch’ that sets us apart from other integration companies,” said Ted Rossi, president and CEO, Summit Healthcare. “Our bi-directional integration of emergency room data improves quality of care, while our outsourcing services got Alice Hyde up and running quickly so the medical center could start reaping the benefits of integration.”
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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 MEDITECH 6.0 migration efforts. From interface management to data migration and dictionary maintenance efforts, the Summit Apex suite includes:
• Summit Express Connect — a robust interface engine used for both hospital and physician office EMR integration with 3rd party 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 www.summit-healthcare.com or call 781-519-4840.